Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People
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Re: Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People
#2great works guy, keep high the name of italian startup scene!
Re: Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People
#3I swear I'm not a Luddite, but I just don't see the advantage of these apps versus going out and meeting new people, no matter whether it's at a coffee shop, on the street, in a park, at a conference or at a bar. Investing your time in a few five minute conversations has got to be a better way to meet interesting new people than broadcasting your interests in a 100-yard radius and having an algorithm match you to people who happen to agree with your choice of keywords (and have to be using the same app.)
Can someone explain the appeal of these "ambient location" apps?
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#4I swear I'm not a Luddite, but I just don't see the advantage of these apps versus going out and meeting new people, no matter whether it's at a coffee shop, on the street, in a park, at a conference or at a bar. Investing your time in a few five minute conversations has got to be a better way to meet interesting new people than broadcasting your interests in a 100-yard radius and having an algorithm match you to peo…
I agree. Perhaps I'm getting too old, but it just seems creepy to approach someone you "found with your phone" vs. just striking up a conversation in a line or at the next table in a restaurant.
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#5I swear I'm not a Luddite, but I just don't see the advantage of these apps versus going out and meeting new people, no matter whether it's at a coffee shop, on the street, in a park, at a conference or at a bar. Investing your time in a few five minute conversations has got to be a better way to meet interesting new people than broadcasting your interests in a 100-yard radius and having an algorithm match you to peo…
Have to agree -- the only one I can think of (not used by myself) is Grindr -- and that has a narrow, specific audience.
The rest can't beat actually going out and meeting people. Easier than many might imagine.
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#6I swear I'm not a Luddite, but I just don't see the advantage of these apps versus going out and meeting new people, no matter whether it's at a coffee shop, on the street, in a park, at a conference or at a bar. Investing your time in a few five minute conversations has got to be a better way to meet interesting new people than broadcasting your interests in a 100-yard radius and having an algorithm match you to peo…
Well, no single size fits all, and it's easy to dismiss any app if it doesn't hold a personal appeal. However, it's often more difficult to strike up a conversation with a random stranger than if it were enabled with some sort of context. In other words, the pretty girl in the coffee shop might have no interest in talking to me normally, but if we somehow found out that (1) we were both interested in making new friends, and (2) we were both into Dostoyevsky and Phish, then hey -- serendipity enabled!
Of course, the first thing I'd talk about is what a silly way to meet, cellphones and the Internet and such, but hey---it got the job done.
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#7I swear I'm not a Luddite, but I just don't see the advantage of these apps versus going out and meeting new people, no matter whether it's at a coffee shop, on the street, in a park, at a conference or at a bar. Investing your time in a few five minute conversations has got to be a better way to meet interesting new people than broadcasting your interests in a 100-yard radius and having an algorithm match you to peo…
Have to agree -- the only one I can think of (not used by myself) is Grindr -- and that has a narrow, specific audience. The rest can't beat actually going out and meeting people. Easier than many might imagine.
Um, Grindr is for casual homosexual encounters, which is admittedly a big market, but not as big as "lonely in a new city and looking to meet new people".
Glancee looks wonderfully polished, I'll give it a spin and see if it works.
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#8I swear I'm not a Luddite, but I just don't see the advantage of these apps versus going out and meeting new people, no matter whether it's at a coffee shop, on the street, in a park, at a conference or at a bar. Investing your time in a few five minute conversations has got to be a better way to meet interesting new people than broadcasting your interests in a 100-yard radius and having an algorithm match you to peo…
Well, no single size fits all, and it's easy to dismiss any app if it doesn't hold a personal appeal. However, it's often more difficult to strike up a conversation with a random stranger than if it were enabled with some sort of context. In other words, the pretty girl in the coffee shop might have no interest in talking to me normally, but if we somehow found out that (1) we were both interested in making new frien…
Good point, but I think they want to go well beyond pretty girls in coffee shops. I like that they use your Facebook likes behind the scenes to generate connections that might be serendipitous.
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#9This part stood out to me:
> The app compares your Likes in common with Wikipedia listings to identify similar categorical interests. Examples I’ve seen: If the other person likes The New Yorker, a line of text might say “You like The Econoimst.” If they like The Sopranos, it says “You like Mad men.” Sometimes these comparisons end up better than others, but overall the feature does succeed in showing you things loosely in common that might not have been obvious if you only compare Likes.
Any chance of making this an API sometime soon?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, no single size fits all, and it's easy to dismiss any app if it doesn't hold a personal appeal. However, it's often more difficult to strike up a conversation with a random stranger than if it were enabled with some sort of context. In other words, the pretty girl in the coffee shop might have no interest in talking to me normally, but if we somehow found out that (1) we were both interested in making new frien…
Good point, but I think they want to go well beyond pretty girls in coffee shops. I like that they use your Facebook likes behind the scenes to generate connections that might be serendipitous.
I agree, I tried it out and it was remarkably accurate.