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Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by coderdude »

benologist wrote: post #15
coderdude wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you often request phone numbers from people who you believe will run off with your phone right in front of you? This seems more like a terrible inconvenience than a risk to your property.

There are many parts of the world where a $700 phone is well worth running off with.

Well sure, but lets work off a real example. Are we talking about gangsters in south central Los Angeles, Nigerian scammers, start-up folk at a conference in Las Vegas, a co-worker (in any part of the world)?

There are many people who you would or would not feel comfortable with handing your phone to while they tapped away right in front of you. My only suggestion here is that the people we usually ask for contact information from are usually the people we instill some very basic level of trust in -- that they wouldn't jack us right in front of our faces. Usually.

Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by coderdude »

psychotik wrote: post #18
coderdude wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you often request phone numbers from people who you believe will run off with your phone right in front of you? This seems more like a terrible inconvenience than a risk to your property.

Run off? No. Have them peek at my email? Maybe. Have them see a notification popup? Maybe. Have them accidentally lock phone and try to unlock it with wrong code? Maybe. I hand a phone to someone, get distracted and lose track of them for a few minutes? Maybe.

I suppose there isn't much you could do about that, aside from getting distracted, but that's stressful having to worry about it every time you hand your phone off to get a new contact. As another commenter suggested though, people do this already when getting people to enter in their own details. All in all, I think the idea of having to hand your phone off sucks regardless of possible privacy or theft issues.

Re: Evernote Hello

#23

Post by kooshball »

lbotos wrote: post #8
ahsanhilal wrote: post #6

This app fails to do anything innovative in my opinion, as the fact that you have to hand your phone to a stranger and ask them to add their details illustrates. How is that better than just using the contacts app on your phone? I think Cardflick is a much better solution. It is still not optimal, but definitely a better solution than Evernote's hello: http://cardflick.co/

It would be cool if they implemented a QR style code that would work out as such: 1) I have evernote Hello and create my profile. You do the same on your device. 2) We meet and each snap a picture of our QR-like codes generated by the app. 3) Data is imported into our devices and we go on our merry way. It's like bump, but using a QR code. Downsides: both of you would need the app, but if it saved a lot of typing a n…

Doesnt Bump basically do the same thing with the QR code?

Re: Evernote Hello

#25

Post by benologist »

coderdude wrote: post #21
benologist wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many parts of the world where a $700 phone is well worth running off with.

Well sure, but lets work off a real example. Are we talking about gangsters in south central Los Angeles, Nigerian scammers, start-up folk at a conference in Las Vegas, a co-worker (in any part of the world)? There are many people who you would or would not feel comfortable with handing your phone to while they tapped away right in front of you. My only suggestion here is that the people we usually ask for contact in…

Conferences, where most people are strangers and there to swap contact info. And of course bars and clubs and conference parties... an attractive woman or man wants to give your drunken self their contact info! Woot!

And that's not even what I was really thinking of... in poor countries the last thing you want to do is pull out a smartphone, let alone pass it to the doctor, tour guide, taxi driver or whoever you think is standing in front of you.

Re: Evernote Hello

#26

Post by coderdude »

benologist wrote: post #25
coderdude wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well sure, but lets work off a real example. Are we talking about gangsters in south central Los Angeles, Nigerian scammers, start-up folk at a conference in Las Vegas, a co-worker (in any part of the world)? There are many people who you would or would not feel comfortable with handing your phone to while they tapped away right in front of you. My only suggestion here is that the people we usually ask for contact in…

Conferences, where most people are strangers and there to swap contact info. And of course bars and clubs and conference parties... an attractive woman or man wants to give your drunken self their contact info! Woot! And that's not even what I was really thinking of... in poor countries the last thing you want to do is pull out a smartphone, let alone pass it to the doctor, tour guide, taxi driver or whoever you thin…

If you don't even want to pull the phone out to begin with then you're most likely not hitting them up for their phone number unless they happen to have a card or you happen to have a pen and sticky notes.

It's possible that the people who are already too cautious to even reveal that they have a phone are the same people that would never make use of a service like this.

Re: Evernote Hello

#27

Post by blatherard »

psychotik wrote: post #11

"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.

I had the reverse reaction to the idea. There are few things I'd rather touch less than someone else's smartphone. I mean, these things seldom get cleaned, are often used on the toilet, and can host viruses and bacteria for long periods of time.

Re: Evernote Hello

#28

Post by zpc »

Can someone do a Captain Planet like feature.

All users hold their phones in one hand. Put their phone-holding hand in the middle. And then, all together, raise their hands at the same time. (Think awesome team building morale boost.)

You would get:

1. The history of which elements were around you during such Captain Planet amazingness.

2. The contact information for whoever possesses: Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and everyone's favorite... Heart.

3. The location where Captain Planet should find you.

4. A clear reminder you grew up in the 90s.

Re: Evernote Hello

#29

Post by cwilson »

jenius wrote: post #20

First of all, this is silly and far more awkward than just exchanging business cards. I feel like they entirely forgot about business cards while developing this. Why would anyone want to enter in all their contact info over and over when they could just have their face and info printed on like 500 cards and hand you one of them? That being said, I go to a lot of networking events and I have found that not bringing b…

I came here to say a version of this, so I'll just comment/expand on your post.

First, like you, I don't think business cards are the solution. Not only are they insanely wasteful, but the only way to "stand out" of the pile of business cards someone inevitably has at the end of an event, is by having the best or most clever design, which is of course all subjective anyway.

I too have started handing my phone over to people I meet who I actually want to engage with later, and usually this involves trading phones, so I can give them my information as well (it's more likely one of the two of us will actually follow up).

That said, it's almost always a different medium where we exchange information. It might be sending a text, adding to contacts, friending on Facebook (if we're really hitting it off), following on Twitter, or simply sending an email. By the end of the night I've initiated conversations in multiple places, and it becomes harder to follow up and remember who is who.

This is why I DO think the design of this application is actually pretty great. The idea of it all being centrally located, based on time/encounters, as well as showing faces, does make sense. The execution, and real-world use however, is where it falls short.

Like others in this thread, I also agree that having someone take a picture of themselves is potentially awkward (I'm sure some people would be perfectly happy to do this, but I'd personally feel odd about it).

The last problem is what kills Bump for me, and that's that it's rare that others have Bump as well. We both have to have the application for it to work, and because of that... I've deleted Bump (as have others). I suppose Evernote has half solved this here, but the trading part of the demo does face this problem.

What makes more sense to me is working with a service like Rapportive, and based on one piece of data, instantly pulling in everything I need to know about this person for future reference, as well as all of their networks.

Re: Evernote Hello

#30

Post by SquareWheel »

lbotos wrote: post #9
adorton wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was my first thought. Does the iPhone support something like near field communication?

The 4S doesn't have NFC but speculators assume the iPhone 5 will.

I don't know about that, I can't see Apple wanting NFC to succeed. If they do they will need to already have some killer apps that use it, and have big deals in place with stores. Apple is incredibly secretive, but that'd be hard to prevent from getting out.
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