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For the past few months I kept a secret. A secret which was revealed two days ago by Juan Irming, a software engineer and founder of Human Proxy, LLC , Seattle, WA newest startup company.

What is the secret I am talking about? It is “inluu — Your story. Your people. Your pace.”

Here is the idea:

… help people capture their life stories and memories, allowing them to share both epic moments and trivial things with their friends and family, and indeed the entire world. How does inluu.com do this? Well, there are two pieces to it:
- A training tool, which you use to teach your own inluu about yourself
- A chat feature, which other people use to chat with your inluu (in lieu of you)

Juan Irming explains the training as follows:

When you first come to inluu.com and decide to train your own inluu, you’ll be asked to introduce yourself. You type your response using natural language, in your own words. Perhaps you’ll say something like:

“My name is Juan Irming and I live in Seattle. I was born in Spain and raised in Sweden. I’m married to Dana and we have a son, Max.”

Behind the scenes, a data tree mirroring your train of thought and memories is now created. Next, inluu will ask you about the relevant topics you mentioned. In the above case, the training tool would drill down and ask you about subjects like Seattle, Dana and Max. And so it goes on, building a hierarchy of your memories, keeping topics connected to each other the same way they’re linked in your mind.

He further explains the chat part:

This is where your family, friends or the world (if you wish) go to chat with your inluu. Yes, chat. When people first visit, your inluu will introduce itself much in the same way you did during the training process. In your words. Then your visitors will be able to type natural language questions and your inluu will respond as best it can, based on the information it has about you. For example, my future grandchild might some day log in to my inluu and ask: “Grandpa, why did you have a Spanish name?” My inluu might respond:

“Well, I was born in Spain. Both my parents were Swedish but I guess they wanted to torture me by giving me something to explain to everyone.”

…along with a picture of my parents in Spain, laughing at their Swedish baby with a Spanish name.
inluu behaves like a bot, but it’s different. It does not make up its own stale, computer-like sentences. It does not sound like a robot. It sounds like you. All responses are in your exact words, the way you intended. That’s the only way it can be your inluu. It understands exactly how your memories and stories are connected because it interviewed you. It is able to stay on topic throughout a chat. The responses it comes up with to people’s questions are usually frighteningly accurate. Your inluu is pretty smart. It handles spelling mistakes, synonyms and related topics just fine, making chatting fun. - Juan Irming on his post.

You can see the screen shots of the training and chat below:

More about inluu.com visit Inluu Territory Blog.

With today’s social networking craze, inluu.com, even though may not be a 100% pure social networking site, does have a great chance to taking off and making it big. Do I see the next Google acquisition in a few years? Possibly. Wish you all the best Juan! Well done.

Inluu already have received press coverage by Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times, John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Outside the Valley.

Images complements of Inluu Territory.

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