Pleasure, Not Business Cards

4 Responses to “Pleasure, Not Business Cards”

1. Michael
   Posted from: 84.77.132.50

   July 22nd, 2005 at 8:07 am

   This idea and concept have been around for years - at least in Spain where people have been handing out personalised “pleasure cards”, with personal rather than business details, for a while.
   http://www.urbanjunkies.com/lon/030305.html

   Nitcards.com - with their very racy, highly personalised designs - is no longer in business but others have been around for a while. Sites like i-yo, with operations more similar to PleasureCards, spring to mind http://www.i-yo.com
2. Richard Moross
   Posted from: 62.25.99.57

   July 22nd, 2005 at 11:46 am

   You’re quite right that the idea has been around for a few years - some 500 years if Wikipedia is to be believed.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card

   I think what makes PleasureCards different and, in my mind, special, is the fact that they aren’t just cards - each one has personal webspace built in for free: a sort of vast online version of the card itself. So, the cards are more than just simply a design and a tactile offline tool to present one’s details - they’re also a key: unlocking all the elements of our lives that we choose to share online - our blogs, our photos, our bookmarks etc.

   By combining the most enduring format for personal information transferral:the card (one the first manifestations to derive from Gutenberg’s printing press/circa 1450) with the fastest growing communications format ever: the internet ( attrib. Berners-lee 1989)- PleasureCards is going well beyond being simply a printer of cards and is fast becoming the only communications product that allows people to express themselves (and communicate their details) in both these mediums.

   Never has such a marriage been so relevant - just look at the dilemma facing online social networks - rapid growth (desire from individuals to share info in this way) but no revenue, and no way for their members to link the service to their offline lives.

   The endurance of the printed medium in the digital age is testament to the relevance of both its tactile qualities as well as its dominance in an offline environment - what’s interesting to me (a relative newcomer to both print and the net before PleasureCards) is that ebusiness so often overlooks the potency of the offline, human, network. I’ve communicated with a lot of people online, but I met all my close friends in person before I skyped them.
3. Jason Pettus
   Posted from: 208.54.142.179

   July 24th, 2005 at 5:28 pm

   When this entry first popped up in my feed reader, I thought it was going to be about business cards that have a piece in technology implanted in them - like an RFID chip that beams the info straight into the recipient’s computer or cellphone. Now THAT’s something I’d buy; I agree with many of the other commenters that cards containinô
   
4. Colors and Prints
   Posted from: 203.115.140.65

   October 20th, 2005 at 12:34 pm

   I’ve seen something like that before.. Its a good substitute for businesscards.

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