Peter Batty says he’ll be demoing the social networking application that Spatial Networking has been building over the last few months/weeks at the Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup Group next week. I’m interested in seeing what his group has come up with as I have yet to see a good spatial social networking application on Facebook (in fact most applications on Facebook annoy me). Maybe the point of view his team has on mapping and spatial location might result in a usable application.
Can’t anyone tie these nodes together spatially?
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Andrew de klerk
// Jan 30, 2008 at 12:38 pm
James
My opinion is that the only way for spatial networking to really operate is to be able to see where your peers are throughout the day. That way , the service would have to be linked either through cellphone based GPS, or LBS based requests (using the cell network). Operators obviously charge for the LBS services, so there would need to be some sort of commercial incentive. I would assume Peter’s service is somehow related to that.
As a matter of interest, our leading cellular provider Vodacom is currently trialing a cellphone based social networking (through a value add service provider) using cellular based LBS as the backend (called The Grid). The idea is that you will be able to see when your friends are in your vicinity. Again this is a great concept that the youth may engage with. The only problem with this is that the student population may be relucant to have to pay for all the LBS requests through the provider. let me be proven wrong!
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Adrian Cuthbert
// Jan 30, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I was just wondering if anyone has had a look at the ‘Top Places’ application on Facebook? It allows people to add places that are important to them, share places with friends or groups, add photos and comments to places and organize them into folders.
If that’s not enough, it’s also available on mobile phones via the mobile version of Facebook, can be added to an iGoogle homepage as a gadget and has a toolbar that allows people to easily capture places from anywhere n the web.
In fact ‘Top Places’ does a lot, perhaps a little too much at first glance. So I guess we are all waiting to see what Peter’s take on it is….
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