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Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite

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Re: Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite

#41

I've never used bump, but what happens if I am bumping in close proximity to two other phones bumping? Anyone ever play with distance thresholds? How close do you actually have to be when you "bump" for it to make a match?

Our matching algorithms evaluate more than just location to determine if two phones are a possibly match (and highly accurate location is fairly rare). So often we are able to match the correct phones even if there are others in close proximity that are also bumping. In the event that we match >2 phones, we prompt those users to bump again and compare both datasets.

Although you can sometimes trick the algorithm into matching phones that did not physically bump by shaking them from across the room, bumping will not work reliably if you do not bump into each other.

Re: Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite

#43
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This reminds me of the original PayPal idea (paying a friend via Palm Pilot in person).

I liked that feature. My coworkers and I would use it to settle up with each other when we went out for lunch. I never knew why they discontinued it.

Also see: The PayPal Wars.

http://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/09...

Re: Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read the article.

I did read the article. Was looking for real world experimentation or maybe a comment from people at Bump. Bumps don't need to happen phone-to-phone, and geolocation data isn't all that accurate.

I saw multiple Bump interactions in highly dense technophile populations at SXSW where two people got a random contact when they bumped.
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