Super Model Lily Cole Talks About Impossible, Her Gift Giving Platform
Founded to encourage a gift culture through a social network, Impossible draws its inspiration from Cole’s Cambridge University thesis, “Impossible Utopias”, published this week. This attempted to go back to the old notion of Utopia, where anyone has the power to do anything they desire.
This week Impossible unveiled a number of new iterations to its platform which Cole and her team (the project was built with Kwame Ferreira of Kwame Corp) have added to the product, which seeks to fulfil the world’s needs, starting with the individual.
Out of the data being generated has come a ‘Most Shared’ feed and a ‘Featured’ feed. A ‘Love’ button (sound familiar?) now means popular wishes can be surfaced. “We’re using it to pull up content that’s more meaningful,” Cole told me.
In addition, proximity filters on the mobile app, enhanced notifications and hashtags have been introduced – everything is now about “surfacing and enhancing” the categorisation of wishes, says Cole.
As a user the Impossble.com experience seems almost impossibly simple.
You post what you want or wish for. Perhaps the more realistic the wish the better. Then you sit back and wait.
A while ago I posted that I would like to form a Punk Blues band. I thought nothing of it.
Until, oddly, friends from within and outside my social graph started to suggest actual ways to do this.
Eventually another name popped up with an offer to sing, from one Lily Cole.
I’ll let you know if the band comes together.