Here’s how Wired News explained a great Imity scenario:

” Let’s say you’re at a conference in a strange town and you walk into the break room to get some coffee. You see a few familiar faces, but you can’t remember any of the names that go with those faces. You ask yourself, “Where did I last see that guy? Have I actually met him before? Didn’t we talk over email?”

Then you pull out your Bluetooth device and fire up imity. You can see who’s in the room with you — as long as they have some sort of wirelessly connected phone, PDA or laptop — plus the time and date you were last in a room with them, how often and where you’ve seen them in the past few months, whether you’ve ever called them, emailed them, visited their blog, and so on.”

Exactly! This is really one of the core “what if we could do this” we asked ourselves when defining Imity. We’ve all got a lot of social value locked up in lost memory.

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