A tip from Pete Rojas in an Engadget visits NYU's ITP Spring Show post yesterday:
Next up is Socialight, which we'd describe as an amped up version of Dodgeball (which is itself sort of a mobile version of Friendster). It involves signing up for yet another of those friend of a friend social network websites, but if you have a phone that can run the Socialight software and that supports location-based services (right now only the Nokia 6600 fits the bill) you can see if your friends (and your friends' friends) are in the area or leave messages for your pals around town that they'll only pick up when they actually pass through that specific location.
On the socialight site—take your social life everywhere—this service is described as: a number of
subtle and overt tools which enable unique modes of real-time and time-shifted communication.
Socialight includes great features such as:
Tap & Tickle (A Tap is a brief vibration that a socialight
user may send to a friend. A Tickle is a vibration sent with a variable length determined by the socialight user
sending the Tickle), and
Sticky Shadows (A Sticky Shadow can be a picture, a piece of
text, a snippet of audio, a video clip, or a combination of these types of media, left for another user in a specific
physical location. Users may choose the location, lifetime, and content of the Sticky Shadows they leave for their
friends).
1. nice web site:
i think that xybernaut holds the patents for waypoint technology that makes this system works!!!
wow!
nice blog..how do you get corporate sponsership?
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by stefanos pantagis