>>Which platform is snowball server running?<< The original plan was to implement it in PHP, but because Android supports a lot of the Apache specification I found that if I used a Java host I could reuse a lot of the client code on the server (the benefits of peer-to-peer and all that).
Currently it is running as a JSP web service on a virtual Apache Tomcat server with a MySQL backend. Although each Cell-id-node- instance is atomic, so I can scale it up and make it distributed if necessary. The idea being that I can just add computing resources to it as needed. >>Do you broadcast more than the location from the server? << The server turns each Cell tower into a Snowball node. This means it doesn’t actually broadcast location information (not yet anyway), but instead allows Snowball Ads to be stored as if on the cell tower. Say you write a multiplayer game, which is running on 10 handsets in your area. Snowball will detect and rank these handsets by closest first, but will not be able to tell you exactly where they are. Detecting actual location is better handled by the application using GPS etc (i.e. with user approval), and is not suitable for all applications, e.g. dating. >>What kind of end user applications are possible using snowball? Do you have >>any specific kind of end user applications that might be the killer app for >>snowball?<< Different people will find different applications useful at different times. I have listed the vague categories and use cases that can be easily implemented on top of Snowball here: http://blog.zedray.com/snowball/why-is-this-useful/ (Location-based services, Social networking, Gaming, News and information, Logistics) But everyone I talk to about this tends to come up with new stuff by themselves. >>Got confused by FluidNexus and Snowball. They have similar goals, but they >>are 2 completely different projects. Guess FluidNexus had the emergency use >>case and Snowball has the ice cream example. Cool, finally got clarified >>myself<< Excellent I can’t wait to see this “mobeegal” LBS search engine that you’ve been working on. Regards Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
