Someone at a party the other night was trying to explain what you could do with geolocation on your phone. The conventional wisdom is, it would be “great” because if you are standing on street corner your phone could tell you the nearest pizza restaurant. Or it blink at you with “offers” from the nearest pizza restaurant
No, I said, the killer app is not about where I am, it’s where my friends are. Sure, often times we don’t want to run in to each other, but sometimes we do. And when we do, it would be great to see who from my buddy list (my real buddy list) might be nearby and we could ping each other, want to meet up? or hey, the movie is about to start are you almost here? where are you?
We try to do this manually with social presence apps with twitter, or for the truly brave plazes. Once it gets easy enough, “social location” services will be huge, and may just be the missing piece in social presence we’ve been wondering about.
Businesses already make fairly extensive use of gps to track vehicle fleets and sometimes personnel, but the consumer/social applications are just scratching the surface. (of course lots of juicy privacy and location-based-gossip issues will be waiting for us…)
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Rick Segal asked entrepeneurs the exact same question…and said that anyone who COULD come up with same, would get a Term Sheet from him — and others too!
Looks like a great idea…but I’m in my own startup….
Someone — a Canuck please — get this one to the marketplace!
Jim
Rick Segal asked entrepeneurs the exact same question…and said that anyone who COULD come up with same, would get a Term Sheet from him — and others too!
Looks like a great idea…but I’m in my own startup….
Someone — a Canuck please — get this one to the marketplace!
Jim
In the meantime, we can learn from the characters in the novels of Charles Dickens… They had a sixth sense for finding their buddies and (not always successfully) avoiding their enemies.
In the meantime, we can learn from the characters in the novels of Charles Dickens… They had a sixth sense for finding their buddies and (not always successfully) avoiding their enemies.
If mobile phones are to be used for more than finding pizza on google local, paying vending machines, what new opportunities for social tools exist beyond IM and text dating?
The geo-location idea reminds me of an introductions device from 1998 that beeps when someone near you has interests in common etc…
One’s VERY close friends could get my doki-doki. Could a phone be a doki-doki?
Or we could wear the phone as a cam, and do so in a more fashionable way than Steve Mann once did.
Then again picking up the phone, messaging, bumping into each other on the street (like we did last week – literally), meeting up at the usual spot/event, or yelling real loud kinda work too. -m
If mobile phones are to be used for more than finding pizza on google local, paying vending machines, what new opportunities for social tools exist beyond IM and text dating?
The geo-location idea reminds me of an introductions device from 1998 that beeps when someone near you has interests in common etc…
One’s VERY close friends could get my doki-doki. Could a phone be a doki-doki?
Or we could wear the phone as a cam, and do so in a more fashionable way than Steve Mann once did.
Then again picking up the phone, messaging, bumping into each other on the street (like we did last week – literally), meeting up at the usual spot/event, or yelling real loud kinda work too. -m
It is already possible to locate your friends using the Web2.0.
Just go to: http://www.hipoqih.com
Hipoqih is a web based application to enable you to quickly share your position with anybody and where you are going. Hipoqih is a way that you can let the world know where you are.
If you want to be located you only have to download and install a small application (the hipoqih plugin) in your mobile device. If you want to locate your friends you need just a browser!
These days the pluging is avalilable for Windows XP, Windows mobile and Smartphone. We are developing the plugin for Nokia S-60 (N95,N70,etc.) and GNU/Linux.
Diego Fernández
Hipoqih Cofounder & Software Architect
It is already possible to locate your friends using the Web2.0.
Just go to: http://www.hipoqih.com
Hipoqih is a web based application to enable you to quickly share your position with anybody and where you are going. Hipoqih is a way that you can let the world know where you are.
If you want to be located you only have to download and install a small application (the hipoqih plugin) in your mobile device. If you want to locate your friends you need just a browser!
These days the pluging is avalilable for Windows XP, Windows mobile and Smartphone. We are developing the plugin for Nokia S-60 (N95,N70,etc.) and GNU/Linux.
Diego Fernández
Hipoqih Cofounder & Software Architect