maybe as a sub-group of dataportability ?
*just my two cents*
On Apr 21, 2:30 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the details. Checked out your website, looks great.
>
> Mobile Social Networking is an exciting space to be on currently, and am
> sure lot of folks working on it right now.
>
> May be we can start a group, and start collaborating on the ideas,
> technologies etc., related to the mobile social networking space.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, whitemice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >>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<http://blog.zedray.com/snowball/why-is-this-useful/%28Location-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
>
> --
> take care,
> Muthu Ramadoss.
>
> http://mobeegal.in
> find stuff closer.
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