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Re: Rround

#21

Post by andreipop » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 5:43 AM UTC

Doesn't seem to have my location right - off by quite a few clicks

Re: Rround

#22

Post by dorian-graph » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 5:58 AM UTC

Gatsky wrote: post #20

I don't particularly 'get' social media, but I can see myself using this, it's frictionless or whatever the word is. Geolocation works fine for me, I'm in Australia.

I'm on my Macbook Pro at uni and it has my position perfectly. I'm way impressed with this website.

Re: Rround

#23

Post by tricolon » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:08 AM UTC

elving wrote: post #2

rround is a simple HTML5 experiment I built to discover people and things happenings around you. What do you guys think?

It looks very nice! I've had the same idea for ages, but never really executed on it. Good job!

Re: Rround

#24

Post by wiradikusuma » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:41 AM UTC

The expand map appears to be broken, not displaying anything. I'm using Chrome in Windows 7.

Re: Rround

#25

Post by bvi » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:46 AM UTC

pom wrote: post #4

I get a "Retrieving position timeout" error, even though I accept to share my location (on both Firefox and Google Chrome on OS X; geosharing works otherwise, for instance on this: http://slides.html5rocks.com/#geolocation. ) EDIT: Additionally, it would be nice to have a short description with screenshots of what it is supposed in the case that you cannot get through the location stage...

Times out for me too. Pity.

Re: Rround

#26

Post by thatjoshguy » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:01 AM UTC

dorian-graph wrote: post #22

Gatsky wrote: post #20

I don't particularly 'get' social media, but I can see myself using this, it's frictionless or whatever the word is. Geolocation works fine for me, I'm in Australia.

I'm on my Macbook Pro at uni and it has my position perfectly. I'm way impressed with this website.

I'm in the same situation, but I guess being at a university would give better geo ip location data...

Re: Rround

#27

Post by jzting » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:04 AM UTC

Very nice. Reminds me of what http://ban.jo/ is doing on mobile.

Re: Rround

#28

Post by revorad » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:55 AM UTC

Very slick! And I agree with the others, this gets location quite well (except it put me north of the Thames).

There are so many location apps, so it's good to see something simplified.

Now the one thing you need to do is give me a reason to keep coming back to the site.

Add chat maybe? There are lots of location-based chat apps now, that allow you to chat with people in the same location as you. What I would love is an app that let me chat with people in different parts of the city. "Hey Jenny, how's Oxford street this morning?" "Anything fun going on in Trafalgar square right now?". You get the idea.

Re: Rround

#29

Post by dorian-graph » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 8:41 AM UTC

elving wrote: post #2

rround is a simple HTML5 experiment I built to discover people and things happenings around you. What do you guys think?

Very accurate. Has my position near perfect while I was at university and now at home.

I was surprised at how well it works—it's very polished. What are you plans for it?

Re: Rround

#30

Post by endgame » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 9:53 AM UTC

elving wrote: post #2

rround is a simple HTML5 experiment I built to discover people and things happenings around you. What do you guys think?

I think you should've put some more information in the link title. I wouldn't use this because I'm one of those paranoid people.