{"id":175170,"date":"2016-08-08T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175170"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T09:05:07","slug":"new-social-network-based-on-your-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175170-new-social-network-based-on-your-passions.html","title":{"rendered":"New social network based on your passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Google&#8217;s Orkut social network,\u00a0Orkut\u00a0B\u00fcy\u00fckk\u00f6kten, has launched a new social service called the Hello Network, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/08\/05\/orkut-founder-launches-hello-a-social-network-focused-on-your-passions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venturebeat reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello.com\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hello is available<\/strong><\/a> for iOS and Android, and can use the contacts in your address book to find friends.<\/p>\n<p>Users selects five &#8220;personas&#8221; they are interested in, such as photographer, animal lover, actor, foodie, geek, parent, or traveller.<\/p>\n<p>Venturebeat noted that although you are\u00a0limited to five personas, Hello gives you the option of swopping out ones you no longer are passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>When you post something, you have to assign it\u00a0to at least one of the five personas you follow.<\/p>\n<p>You can also explore what other people have posted in any persona.<\/p>\n<p>Hello then uses a learning algorithm to find people you should connect with.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on social networks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/174916-facebook-fighting-clickbait.html\"><strong>Facebook fighting clickbait<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/174846-twitter-launches-ads-to-get-you-to-tweet.html\"><strong>Twitter launches ads to get you to tweet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/171075-zimbabweans-slam-government-over-social-media-shutdown.html\"><strong>Zimbabweans slam government over social media shutdown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Network is a social network to connect you with people who share your interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167,38450,6881,38452],"class_list":["post-175170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-hello-network","tag-orkut","tag-orkut-buyukkokten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175197,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175170\/revisions\/175197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}