Scenario:
Suppose you're looking for a customer base for your product: submit a message containing some information about the product, and watch whose messages reveal overlap. This is the way user-tailored advertising works today on any website where users publicly post information about themselves; here there is added novelty in that you are mining encrypted user information (and there's potentially much more of that than public information) and that it is not necessary to reveal your ad if the measured potential customer base is small. An advertiser can thus submit multiple ads, choosing to officialize the one with the largest number of connections.
You are a small company specializing in heavy metal paraphenelia. You can't afford traditional advertising in magazines, on TV, etc., so you submit your product info to QR.
Your Message:
Sample Network:
This scenario is actually very similar to the Social Network example, except here you're a business looking for customers instead of a person looking for contacts. Typing in "Black Day Records" in the form below, you'll see about a dozen potential customers pop up. Depending on whether that customer base is of an acceptable size, you may or may not wish to submit more messages.
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