Systems, method and apparatus are provided for searching, sensing, discovering, screening, enabling awareness, alerting, sharing, sending, receiving, buying, selling, and otherwise transmitting stories, content, interests, data, goods and services among known and unknown devices in a communication network. Humans have a core desire to communicate and share with those around them—both nearby and around the globe—to enhance their individual, social and shared experiences. Social networks and related technologies have provided their subscribers with new technologies to share their stories with their friends and certain third-parties, but are limited in two crucial respects: they require prior membership, subscription or enrollment; and, in order to execute communications with friends and certain third parties, social networks require use of both (a) a user's existing contact information, and (b) the social network's platform. By using improved methods for searching, detecting, sensing, and discovering attributes, characteristics, parameters and other data between devices among known and unknown devices, then people, businesses and organizations will be able to sense, learn and act on the interests, attributes, stories, content and products of others, enabling enhanced forms of communications and new methods of business.