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Moby: Share your location in real time
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Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#42It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market. http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse has had a product out for several years now.
I never understand arguments like this. There as Orkut before Facebook, Loopt before Latitude, Yahoo before Google, and Digg before Reddit. You can copy stuff and make them better, and this better can be even just simpler, or with better community, or other odd declinations of "better" that are enough to win in the market. EDIT: and in case there is already something in the marke that is yet not famous, you can almos…
Yeah but this time, there's literally no difference in the products lol. Plus, Glympse has deep integration into many cars, the UPS uses them, etc. AND its super popular amongst consumers. Sure you may be able to get some consumers to switch to Moby for whatever reason, but money only really comes in this case from businesses
Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#43It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market. http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse has had a product out for several years now.
I never understand arguments like this. There as Orkut before Facebook, Loopt before Latitude, Yahoo before Google, and Digg before Reddit. You can copy stuff and make them better, and this better can be even just simpler, or with better community, or other odd declinations of "better" that are enough to win in the market. EDIT: and in case there is already something in the marke that is yet not famous, you can almos…
Also, Glympse has some important relevant patents they should be careful not to tip-toe about
Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
What apps do you need? I know how to share my current location on all major smartphone OSes without needing any apps that aren't built in.
Ok, pretend you are picking me up. Share with me a link where you are right now... even if you are driving.
iOS: Drop a pin in apple maps then click share location within the pin.
Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#45No demo video, no explanation. Why do I need yet another app for this? html5, javascript, geolocation apis, social networking sites with client-side sharing capabilities. These are all the things I need to build a simple service that does what's described here. Why is this an app?
> These are all the things I need to build a simple service that does what's described here. Why is this an app?
I don't understand how listing technologies that might go into making this app obviates the app. How do your two sentences here flow together?
Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#46I don't want to broadcast my location constantly. But I would like the ability to grant permission to some of my friends and family to be able to look up my location when they need it. I'd also like a log and a notification when they look it up, so I know I'm not being stalked, and so they actually put thought into deciding whether or not it's appropriate to look up my location before doing so.
I imagine an app which doesn't send my location to a third party service on an interval. When somebody wants to look up my location, the app on their phone sends a request to some third party service over the Internet, which then pushes a request for my location to my phone. The first time the request comes in from a particular user, it asks me if I'd like to grant them this privilege permanently, temporarily, or to block it. If I grant it, then I don't need to approve future lookups but I am alerted to them happening.
[edit] The requests could also be of the style: "Let me know when you arrive at location x", instead of just "Let me know where you are now". Would be handy for meeting up at places on nights out.
Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#47Interesting. I tried to get my friends to sign up for Google Latitude but they didn't like the idea of it broadcasting a location when not needed. So maybe an expiring short link is a better approach. I like it.
I agree. I think that a very simple, single function service like this could be useful. You know exactly what you are sharing and who you are sharing it with. In the past, I've been known to take a screenshot of my open maps application (with my location shown on the map), and sms that to friends to let them know where I am if I didn't have the address handy. This is clearly a better solution.
Yeah, I like the single-purpose paradigm.
Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#48go bears!
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#49Re: Moby: Share your location in real time
#50Here's Aaron Iba's version of the same concept (his app is called Spacetime): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-time/id508723489?mt=8&...