Hi Zero, Can you pass on the link for dataportablity? Thanks.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:15 PM, zero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
