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Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers
An anonymous reader writes "Trepia has released an IM client that automatically populates itself with people who happen to be around you. Something that has been done before by Apple with iChat, but Trepia claims to be 'iChat on crack' in this article featuring the software. This could have potentially revolutionary social effects..."
WTF? You mean that 19 year old stripper is my retired next door neighbor Frank?
FP? ;) ...
No, but seriously: at the moment I'm already getting irritated by the increasing amount of spam I receive via MSN (using Trillian & GAIM), so what might happen with this innovative product? Don't get me wrong, I love to get to know new people, but I'm a bit sceptic if this wouldn't attract a lot of "noise"
-- Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
Provide a Linux client or OSS protocol...
Where the Music Matters
Kind of an interesting idea though. Although I can already imagine the pedos listing N'Sync and Lizzie McGuire as their "interests"...
"But Mom, he was my "buddy"..."
Trepia link missing from article
http://www.trepia.com/
Or click here
-Kefabi
yea people might start realizing how cool their neighbors are...and also discover the ratio of hot to non hot people is horribe
To joining a gym to meet people who are interested in staying in shape, joining a book club to meet people who are interested in books, joining a tiddly winks club to meet people (OK sad individuals) interested in tiddly winks?
Life is a lot more fun if you actually get out there and live it.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I really wouldn't want some IM client grabbing random/semi random people of similar interests. I think it will lead to another IM spam engine and more virii.
This could have potentially revolutionary social effects...
...
What a great new way to celibrate spam
How about a fucking link to Trepia's site, as well as a way to download it?
Why can't the submitter get it right...
Mike
A Minnesota native turned Silicon Valley entrepreneur thinks he's found a high-tech answer to an age-old question: "How do I find other people in my area who share my interests?"
High tech dance music at a Hollywood club. You'll meet tons of beautiful people, and at least one that likes what you do.
When Apple has accidentally patented its revolutionary, absolutely necessary for mankind, iChat technology, these guys can be in for a nice crushing by the dogs of Steve.
I have seen people use an analog-computational version of this software, it is quite amazing and fascinating.
People will congregate in a room without computers, and visually scan each other. Using complex protocols that frankly I couldn't reverse engineer at the time, they come together and begin speaking. Not with VoIP or anything, they speak directly through the air, using a sort of discovery protocol by which they learn about each other's interests and capabilities. Amazing!
I must learn more about this technology. Kudos to this inventor!
And I'm glad he patented his novel technology, which is nothing at all like any of the many similar technologies that do the exact same thing.
Yeah, works very well...i'm in Cincinati, OH and it's giving me people in Washington and California. Maybe there's just no one on it except those ten people.
"Men lie."
"Yeah, about sleeping with other women, but never about bioluminescent plankton."
-Dan Brown
Ok... say a peadophile says that he is a '12 year old boy who likes sports' or similar... bingo... there's his list of boys in his area...
Bad, bad idea.
This could have potentially revolutionary social effects..."
Japan and Korea have had pagers and phones that do this for some time now, and outside of an increase in accidental meetings at the mall, society has moved right along w/narry a related blip.
Besides, when the x-wife gets within striking distance of my wallet, the hair goes up on the back of my neck, and I doubt I'm the only one with this kind of proximity alert. No news here....move along.
The problem with this sort of technology is that you must give it a decent amount of personal information before it can do its thing. Many are reluctant to give such information, and that fact alone could sink the whole thing.
-danielrm26
dmiessler.com -- grep understanding knowledge
In the interests of transparency and honesty I would set my interests as "hot chicks who like getting naked on cam".
Hmmm.
Not sure how rare/commonplace abductions that occur because of meeting someone over the internet are, but wouldn't this just facilitate it and make it a little bit easier to find someone you can just grab and run with?
They can just create an ADD ON for ICQ or AIM.
Spider out the locations... People who want to use it will need to put their own location.
If people don't want to use it, then people don't want it... And then no one needs to invest in your failure of an idea.
God spoke to me
Like with any new technology one has not only got to ask what it can do for you but also what it can do against you. Though the possibilities of this Idea seem very charming for personal use there come up some questions:
Isn't your stored profile a great way to track your movement? As well for "law enforcement" as for "clean his house of everything thats expensive" people?
Won't the marketing guys just love to know, you are close to one of their shops and a young man? As you obviously using a computer you must be the target audience for Viagra.
Like with every new network technology one has to be aware of what informations he gives out to almost everyone interested. Only having the advantages and the disadvantages in mind you can make a good decision on wether you want to use that software or not.
Nils
Okay, just clicked on my own link, and downloaded the program.
Got about 30 people on my list, 4 girls, 26 guys, little less than half with pictures.
The list slowly gets bigger, as Trepia "finds" people close to me. Not a single one was in the same town as me, though a few were about 30-45 minute drives away.
Apparently, the program uses your ip address and prolly trace to figure out how "close" you are to someone. I got a few people who are all the way across the US from me.
It also claims that if you're on a 802.11b network, it'll automatically find other people on the same network as you, that might be running Trepia as well.
Seems like a cool idea, but so far there needs to be way more people using it if you want to find someone down the street with it.
So if two Trepia-using college students who share a passion for the "Matrix" movies and the "Smallville" TV show are on the same campuswide network, they can electronically see each other. They are able to swap text messages and, soon, physically meet.
I dunno yall, but swapping messages on goatse.cx with the guy in the next dorm.......
in a way.. irc has been doing this for some time.
moo
I can't wait to use this to meet linux booth babes, I just hope they don't end up being 17 year old slashdot trolls.
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
I see that we share the same interests! Fast cars! ....would you like to buy me a Corvette?
How about sharing that pizza you just bought? Can I sell you some magazine subscriptions? Would you like to see a vacuum cleaner demonstration? Can I interest you in some stocks and bonds? Do you want to lose weight while sleeping? Were you born with a too small unit? Do you need your lawn mowed? Can you give me ride to work? Can you give me a job? Can you give me money?
When a company claims being "on crack" as a major advantage, I think it's clear that the US war on drugs has failed miserably.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
So now I finally get to talk with people I meet, or that are just a door away to visit? Seems useful to me :-)
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
Frankly i don't want more people on my buddy list. I keep it small, so that its only people i talk to regularly.
Its a cool idea, but only for people who need to chat, instead of using im'ing as a method of communication.
To all the ladies on Trepia who are about to be inundated with indecent propositions from me and my fellow slashdot geeks; I apologize in advance.
Mod my comments down. It'll be fun.
like any good old IRC network? Enter a random channel... at least you'll have a vaguely common topic to talk about.
Because I don't like other people... well, talking to them in person or on the phone anyway. I don't want to find people near me, they may want to get together. Why must people try to force this "Socialization" thing on me? Why are all these people protesting globalization when socialization is the real menace?
I just downloaded it, registered, looked around it for a little bit and then uninstalled it.
Does that make me anti-social?
This could have potentially revolutionary social effects...
Or, no-one could care less. If it doesn't get downloaded, installed, etc, on a lot of computers, the social effects are going to be pretty insignificant.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
This is as close as we can get to NOT having AOL invade our lives to meet some wierd mutant in our area that shares the same interest... not that I've used either.
Of course some people are going to have bad things to say about this, but the fact of the matter is: if Apple can deliver content, why criticize. I can think of few other large scale ISPs and OEMs that can't do what this is promising without signing away your soul.
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford...
When I walk outside I rarely ever get excited or even mildly interested in the fact that numerous other people are in my vicinity. In fact the trend in highly populated cities is to ignore your neighbors.
I think that it was Cliff Stoll who said that computers make us disconnect from our neighbors and families. This software facilitates a society where everyone knows each other without actually having met.
I can imagine a cafe with several people chatting, only every one of them is looking into his/her computer screen utterly oblivious that they are chatting with the person beside them.
"Software for shy people - We make you new friends... so YOU don't have to!"
Rant over and out. I have to answer someone on IRC...
If you outlaw the law, only criminals will have laws
im going to add idiots to my list so then i can avoid them.
This application must use some seriously whacked pseudoscience to do its geolocation, which is why it doesnt work at all. I don't think its hit a single person within 250 miles of me and im smack in the center of the damn US. A little window where people could click on a map or enter a postal code would be better -the first three digits even for those who will scream out about privacy BS- then narrow the search with the IP/traceroute based crapola). Maybe that would work a little bit at least
Any Euro people who succeeded in registering ? Coz I'm not ...
...
And i'm quite sure some people live in my neighbourhood
But it just told me someone 2,000 miles away was "close to me"
If only the girls you'll meet with this software would look like this screenshot at Trepia.com. I subscribed to Match.com once. I know better. :)
Couldn't this be used to help contain sars? I mean, keeping track of who came in close contact with whom is the hardest part
This shows the underlying stuff (the internet) seems to be ready for the society. Good. Personal flesh-to-flesh meetings are not strictly necessary, but meeting people is important.
Yesterday was the time to do it right. Are we having a REVOLUTION yet?
lol
For those wondering about the protocol, it's plain text.. here's an example:
/ h>j >iarwain1</j>w ain1</l>< /r>
:P
<O><a>4114</a>
<p>Nashua, NH</p>
<b>1054625922</b><d>iarwain</d&g t;
<m>31</m>
<n>M</n>
<g>Brian</g>
<h>Chabot<
<o>System Administrator, IT Consultant, and manager for hire</o>
<e>brian@datasquire.net</e>
<i></i>
<
<k>iarwain@hotmail.com</k>
<l>iar
<f>http://www.hirebrian.net</f>
<r>USA
<s>NH</s>
<t>Nashua</t>
<u>English, some French</u>
<v></v>
<w>Hire me!</w>
</O>
Sorry to whoever this is
i have no way of removing people off of my list.
and isn't it the idea to get people who are close to me? i'm in burnaby bc and i was getting people in ohio, california, new zealand... nobody at least within my own country. it was also making this god awful takka takka takka noise while doing it.
"hi where are you from? are you physically near me?"
"i doubt it, where are you?"
"burnaby, bc"
"yeah definitely in the area.. new zealand LOL!"
i'm doubting this program does anything at all, just kind of pretends it does.
Hey it only runs on Windows. Who uses that?
If you notice, the installer obviously uses nullsoft's NSIS, but they recompiled it, and changed the banner at the bottom to "Trepia, Inc.". Isn't that a breech of GPL or whatever license NSIS is out under?
Efren Belizario
headspeak.com
Well, I don't think much of their patented algorithm. It seems to think that my local people are in America, Iceland and South Africa.
Unfortuately, i'm in London UK. Great.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story..."
What's the average amount of rainfall in this area? Median income? Most popular car? Hippest nightclub? Closest park? Nearest bathroom? Closest 24-36-24 blonde with a love of C templates?
The range of applications in this field is _huge_. Almost all of the pieces are here (GPS, ipv6, web services, wireless), we just need to fit them together.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
Donno about the people complaining that its only showing up users who aren't regional at all, a lot (about 30%)of people on my list ARE around where I am. The article says that they only have about 6000 registered users currently, so I would assume that as this userbase grows the results would be more and more regional. The slashdotting should help, if their server can take it that is. Now if Kazaa or eDonkey had something like this. I wouldn't have to spend hours downloading stuff. Would just walk across the street to someone who has it and copy it.
This must be a huge improvement for pimps. Just buy your hoes a device and put in all her specialities. Much easier to find customers.
I can see it before me, geeky men in dimly lit appartments trying to disturb the other cyber pimp's hoes connections.
Heck, you could even make a movie out of this;)
nt
"You are currently not connected to the Internet. Please take the appropriate steps and try again."
Oh well, I guess that means I won't be able to post this. Wonderful technology!!
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
http://www.trepia.com/tour/ for bigger photos.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I'm not making a particular value judgment one way or another, but I think it should be made clear that the two services are quite different, even if they effectively accomplish the same thing.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
a spammer's wet dream?
put out some bots with special interests you want to target, say... snorkeling...
boom, the bot sees a few folks who like snorkeling...
bot starts feeding them alice bot style babbling about the new x-10 snorkle cam, or some such shit
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
...do you really want some hyperactive IM client to tell 'The Boss' you both like hairless chiuahas, sleeping in the nude, The Story of O and Sundays at the swap meet?
Among the many things I don't want to know, this is on the short list, believe me.
...a linux port. if they get enougd spam hopefully they will port it so we can run it on linux legally (screw their patent!).
How different would that be than joining an IRC channel for your local area and ask "12 year old boy who likes sports, wanna chat?" I don't think this program will hand out your name and address anymore than IRC will. It's basicly trying to edge in on IRCs turf, providing "channels" of common interests and location if you ask me.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
It's an early version and i'm sure they have plans for tweaks and improvments in the UI, but from what i've seen this is a serious step in the right direction. After being on for 5 minutes I unlike some people here already started talking to a fellow college student from my area, and am seeing a few people trickle in nearer to me. Also you have to realize that up until now this IM has recieved almost NO press and therefore has a small user base, if we spread the word then eventually it will propagate out and there will be plenty of locals on we can talk to. 2 things: 1)I'm sorry for all the women (the 2 i've seen anyway) who are going to have to endure the neverending popups, so guys please be tasteful and mellow, otherwise this'll be a boys club and where's the fun in that ;>
2) There really needs to be a way to turn off that damn drippy sound!
Geeks of the world UNITE!
do not click!
Odigo did something like this, but it had really cool icons and user profile pictures. Odigo also connected to ICQ, Yahoo, MSN etc - it was pretty cool but trillian was a bit better and less buggy.
This could have potentially revolutionary social effects...
Flashback to the late nineties? To me, this sounds like typical Internet Guru crap from before the dot-com meltdown.
JP
connection dialogue box says: "You are currently not connected to the Internet. Please take the appropriate steps and try again."
Welp, that was a short lived experiment. I guess they need to do a bit of work on their network code. Odd, in that it's supposedly an intelligent networking application.
yeah, making people think you're actually popular is quite revolutionary
.smell my feet.
Not the GPL...
Pulled from
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/license.html
license
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Nullsoft, Inc.
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
I would prefer Trepia if it gave me a buddy list of Perfect Strangers.
And now we will do the dance of joy!
Not again
take your ipod, and its radio transmitter; mix liberally with a radio receiver and a lovegety. you now have a 10-30 foot sphere of sharable personal soundtrack.
.
. hmmm
I'm pretty sure that the dark and secret corners of various governmental institutions are rubbing their hands with glee.
Maybe they could apply this idea to the "real" world: How about a novelty item that looks (or is actually built into) something like a wristwatch or cell phone and contains a profile of you and your interests ("desperate college-aged male who likes light beer, Japanese pop music, Starbuck's, PS2 fighting games, and desperate college-aged females") and has a real-time display a bit like a compass showing your calculated affinity with the people around you who also have the device (using some sort of wireless tech). Likewise it could indicate interesting locations (based on who's there, special events, etc.) too. I have a hard time imagine something like that being anything besides a novelty, but who knows - it could be all the rage among high school and nightclub crowds. Hey, maybe it could tell me I might actually have a shot with that girl working at the counter in the local coffee shop, and then when I don't work up the nerve to say anything it'll start beeping and displaying insulting messages like "No wonder you're so desperate! Go back home to your cheap beer and video games and put me up on eBay."
In the website of Trepia, it is mentioned "Trepia(TM) is free to use and contains no spyware or ads." But you know what: Jawed Karim, one the authors mentioned in the article, wrote another piece of code called MP3 Voyeur. Now, in MP3 Voyeur, which searches for MP3s and other media files within LANs, there is a feature that connect to his personal web server every time it was run. If it could not connect to the server, it would refuse to run! Now, coming from such an author, this tool looks a bit suspicious.
So, someone might want to fire up Ethereal and sniff those packets flying from your machines.
The reason I participate in online discussions and activities is to meet like minded people outside of my local area. My interests are pretty specialised, even in a modern technological society, and that means a vastly reduced chance of anyone in my locality having the same interests. The beauty of the net is that locality is not what's important, it's shared interest.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
This is basically an interactive slashdot right now since it is being invaded by massive amounts of slashdotters... On my current list are dozens of young male programmers....
I heard rumors that intelligence service gonna use it. How to find Osama? Really easy: "supermodel seeks for men with beard, w/strong desire for total world domination, attracted to guns, tents, living in caves." mod it a little and you'll get Saddam as well. I wrote I'm interested in pink caddys and guitars, guess what - one in my list sounds just like Elvis!
Let's see. Runs on Windows only.
Yep, that would be iChat on crack.
This is just a real time yahoo user group. In my opinion, I would rather use a yahoo, or similar, user group if I wanted to meet people with similar interests or locals. I dont see this replacing IMs or user groups.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
I typed in all the details (including the 'You Must Enter A Profile!' bit) and then hit 'Register'.
;)
10 seconds later, I get a window saying (in its entirety) 'Failed' with an option to 'Cancel'.
So what was it? Firewall? Network glitch? Did I pick a nickname someone else already had? Is my password too short? Too long? Too secure?
Doesn't look like version 2.0 to me - more like 0.2Beta.
Mark
PS There goes my Karma.... Quick, whore it back up.... Oh, and it's Windows only
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did anyone else notice how much of a resource this thing takes up - I moment i logged off, the fans on my laptop shut down.
Also, the concept is cool and all but instead of using the patent pending algorithm to find out that guys living in Sweden were the closest to me (in Canada) They could have simply used the location that people enter. I wonder how long it will be before AOL or MSN come up with a plugin that can do all that this application can.
This thing could also use a friends list.
Siggy Say, Siggy Do
OK, maybe not, but I'm imagining that this little guy, with a PDA over Wi-Fi would be a VERY interesting little device, especially at trade shows and the like. I'm not saying that people should go clubbing with their PDA, but imagine these suckers going off at E3 or some other trade show. If you could put some scheduling thing in there, it'd be even better.
Find all people going to Gordon Biersch after the convention. Or something like that.
Where the wind blows, the tumbleweed goes.
...how come nobody seems to be putting up gag avatars? The parent post was made in jest, but hey, this is Slashdot; I was expecting to see at least one person with a pic of the Goatse Guy next to their profile! I guess maybe it's because we geeks are the type to have a digicam and a self pic, and thus no need to upload something bogus, but I'm really surprised to see so many apparently legit photos. I wonder how that ratio pans out for the total userbase.
I stuck up a pic of John Ashcroft for the time being, but I'm trying to find (or crop) some hardcore porn that's just the right size...
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
The idea is sound, but the implementation is flawed. I mainly seem to get people in the US, even though I'm in the UK (6000+ miles is hardly close) and nobody on the list is in my country even though my friend about a mile away has it installed and running.
In my experience, trying to guess where people are by their IP address doesn't work very well. It would work much better if you could simply add the locations you are at most often by country/postcode or even just grid reference and it used those instead. Even people on the same subnet as me could be hundreds of miles away if they're dialling in. If people have sold of or subleased blocks of IP addresses to other countries, the records could even indicate the wrong location or wrong country anyway - so it may always think I'm in Finland when actually I'm in England... I'm not impressed.
I wrote an IM client myself which simply discovered people on the same subnet using broadcasts - and even that seemed to be more effective at finding my friends and colleagues than this (admittedly broadcasts don't usually work on public networks).
Nick...
Alright.
Installed it on the Win2k box. Besides from being really annoying with sound effects such as droplets it didn't offer accurate localization. I got people from TX, MN, NY, IL, New Zealand(!), etc.
The application has no preferences aside from the profile. You cannot add users to your "buddy" list.
I think this concept will be replaced by an Open Source alternative pretty soon with better options, because no one likes central server bullshit and proprietary software.
The greatest thing imo would be to integrate this into W.A.S.T.E. as a group of (untrusted) users just to extend it even more. It would be a killer convergence of IM/sharing applications. Imagine how great it would be to be able to share documents, pictures, and other crap with a trusted source (buddy) whenever they appear within range when using WiFi enabled devices.
Great concept. Shitty implementation.
Step 1: Register as many "first name" usernames as you can think of
Step 2: (???)
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
Assuming Step 2 turns out to be "Trepia reaches ICQ-esque saturation," I'll be living the high life with One. Hundred. Billion. Dollars.
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
I'm on my home lan, connected to the Internet via NAT and Trepia seems to think I'm not connected to the Internet.
Stunning. Anyone else having problems?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
you evil people
/.'ed their registration server
you've
how am i supposed to find that good looking girl next door now, huh?
I notice from the welcome email...
:-)
"Any e-mail addresses that you give us will NOT be shared with any other parties."
Of course, I notice the email address you supply in your registration profile is publicly visible to anybody who views your profile (right click on a user in your list). Not sure what the EULA had to say (or any other EULA for that matter) but I guess you can always use nobody@example.com
Anyway, just a heads up - incase some people out there didn't notice (and like me - hate email harvesting).
On a side note... I'm from Australia and I only saw people from the US/UK/Canada... it works well.
-Brad
Well it's missing features. But the website updated after 2:00 am to link to this thread. And a developer (who's user name I won't reveal) spent some time chatting with me, before my computer crashed. So I'm cautiously optimistic.
Gryftir
P.S. the program didn't crash my computer, Mozilla reading slashdot crashed my computer. Stupid scrollbar bugs.
http://www.santacruzbynight.com/index.shtml Santa Cruz By Night Vampire Larp
... Stalker.
-pyrrho
I was looking at the protocol, and your MAC and your default gateway's MAC are sent along with login, maybe this is for authentication, or maybe it has something to do with their "progressive proximity search." Maybe if it can see what users are on what gateways, and use some IP geometric locating, it can group users? who knows?
So now people will be able to get to know other people in the same physical place with them.
Truly revolutionary!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
In some digital theory subject or another during my degree, we discussed how "life online" was interesting because it removed the proximity factor when forming relationships. Nearly everyone in my class saw online relationships of any sort (friendship, cybersex, everything in between) as being like some sort of tawdry party line.
This is bringing it back to that attitude - if I cared so much about meeting people online that I could meet in person, I'd go join some activity groups in my area or join an Austnet IRC channel with my city's name. I don't care where you're from if you're my friend online. I care what you are like, because that's the whole beauty of being able to find friends online. It's not a given that we will meet but it's a nice potential bonus.
Besides, when I had my gender, postcode and surname at one time on ICQ I had every damn horny Indian in Sydney trying to chat with me and/or get my photo. Just try to tell me that won't happen with this service.
> joining a tiddly winks club
you can do that online, too.. at http://www.antwon.com/tiddlywinks/membership.html you can become a "Big Winker" for "a one-time donation of $100".
sad, indeed.
So, should we at /. spread the word?
I feel a chain letter has already been started....
and now I'm sure there is an MLM thats adjusting it's scripts.
What port(s) does this thing try and use to connect to its server? The documentation is useless, and I can't get it through my firewall without knowing what it wants to do...
coldcity
code, life, art
This could have potentially revolutionary social effects...
Typical slashdot sensationalism.
how am i supposed to find that good looking girl next door now, huh?
Umm, go next door and knock on the door???
Bizarre Concept, I know, but try it
Burma?
I live in Denmark, my list was filled with people from Barcelona, Texas, London, Israel and one from Sweden (not that far away though ;).
;)
Who's up for writing an improved version for my favorite IM - Miranda IM? Use MaxMind's GeoIP database, or DirectI's IP-to-country database! Couple that with what users put in as location, then associate some words and then mix with water
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Yet Another Instant Messenger
Seriously, this idea is very nice, and I really hope it has a future, but as I see it, it's yet another instant messenger. The problem with this is that most people decide to use one, maybe two, IMs. Okay, so now we have ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, and many many more. Of course, this is just day-dreaming: but wouldn't it be great if there was just one (OSS) IM platform, like Jabber? Jabber is great, unfortunately, it's not in the Top3 IM systems. Ideas like this should had been implemented into Jabber, then it could have a future, now it's just another IM people can choice from. Okay, now I'm gonna check where all the fuzz is about...
In need of reliable and affordable server monitoring?
Someone smart in their marketing dept. (sadly!)
:)
You provide your likes and interests, they'll find your IP and likely location and hook you up with locals with similar likes and interests.
You use their chat program for free while they collect and pass on demographic info for $$$. Best point is LOADS of people will WANT to do this!!! VERY SMART thinking from the marketing department!
Hell if they dont spam you outta this one....
Yup. Not a realtime chat client. But. It's already got this dialed.
FYI, This software only runs on Windows. No downloads for GNU/Linux or OS X. Guess I'm outta luck...
-- http://www.MindBlowingPhotos.com
Photography inspired by music, nature and life itself.
"Hi Boss, I can't come to work today. My grandma died and is burried in Nebraska"
20 minutes later...
"Chris? Is that you?"
"No boss... I'm in Nebraska"
"Don't lie to me - you're near by. I can tell by this Trepia program"
"But boss... I..ahem.."
"Chris - didn't your grandma die last august?"
based off websites visited and amount of time spent on the site.
In an online community it would be your interests that bring you together more than a geographical location.
One good thing about music... when it hits you, you feel no pain. So hit me with music. -Bob Marley
& they say geeks are anti-social...bah
Speaking at Defcon 12 - Credit Card Networks Revisted: Pen
Bunch of damn antisocial introverts will use this to get their rocks on and become stalkers of their ex-girlfriend. I wonder if restraining orders will include this program in them???
"Please proceed to grab your ankles. The anal injection process with proceed in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...... WHOS YOUR DADDY!!!
And, as if it wouldn't be enough, they also claim ownership of all materials you send through their application. Don't discuss your ideas on their chat - you give ownership to Trepia!
The quoted text was found under Help->About. And did I mention that their proximity algorithm sucks duck?Since there's no Mac, Linux, or Java version, I guess your profile implicitly marks you as a Microsoft customer.
org.slashdot.post.SignatureNotFoundException: ewg
ANybody know what ports this program uses? Can't seem to use it behind the work firewall
Meeting people online is a lot cheaper, safer, and easier than most real life methods.
:)
It also has fewer barriers. I once invited the local LUG around for a bash at my place. One guy replied in the affirmative with "yeah I'll walk." Turns out he lived two houses away from me - something we hadn't discovered after a couple of years chatting on the mailing list
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
And where do you set the proxy settings?
"You are not connected to the internet. Please take the appropriate steps and try again." Er, yes I am you pile of cak. Now where am I going to find 35 year old computer experts that live with their parents?
What you say is true, but it doesn't necessarily contradict what the previous poster is saying.
The good liars can fool you, yes, but the bad ones are far less likely too, even online, so once you meet them in person, you're where someone who meets another at a bar, with the exception that you've already eliminated the easy to spot wastes of time.
Your statement that "online it's massively simple to social engineer" is only true if someone relies on another to be 100% honest about themselves, something which is dangerous to do both online and off.
I would say that both you and the previous poster are correct on some points, but the net effect is that there are equal, but different, dangers and benefits to both online and offline meeting of people early in any relationship.
Ummm yes I live in Pennsylvania.. yet alot of the people showing up are in the UK... hows that work??? Sweden? Hrmm, something is wrong here.
I just downloaded Trepia and the first person on the top of the list was two stations away from me (I'm in Tokyo). We chatted and hit it off immediately. He had similar interests and really cool projects going on (working on intro movie for an upcoming Namco game!). We exchanged more stable contact information (MSN IDs at this point) and will meet up for beer and perhaps talk business. This program really is great for making new contacts. Atleast it worked for me =)
Oh for some mod points :-) Very 'insightful'!
There's already a Goatsex account. No way to delete it, either. None.
Thanks, Trepia! And here I was pissed that ICQ didn't have a way to look at flying fecal matter...
If you logoff & logon again, it repopulates the list. Goat-boy went away. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
Namby pamby neediness.
It makes me sick! Ohhhhhhhh, the humanity!
As a species we just can't fucking do without human contact can we?
The constant neeeeeeeed for approval and self-affirmation.
What about people who hate people? What are they going to do when they get together?!??!!
Bah! Humbug
... you look for larger screenshots of a chat client with women in its list.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
I'm sorry, but am I the only one who doesn't think that anything being on crack is a good thing? Given the choice, I'd take the thing that was not on crack any day.
This doesn't work under WINE, so I can't try it. Hopfully they come out with a linux version.
I can get away from the A-holes around me! Now I can't even do that!
You make it sound like being on crack is a good thing. I had a friend on crack once. I could not trust him nor rely on him. He was unpleasant to look at and to be around. He also died soon after getting on crack. I think I'll avoid Trepia's IM.
Ah - so it finds people in the locale who use MS Windows? Don't know who wants to know that ;-)
This comment was written with the intention to opt out of advertising.
IM, at first (remember ICQ?), was about being online only to people you wanted to be available. This was a big difference with the big, noisy IRC networks. But then, recently some IM protocols/programs have added support for "rooms"; and now, this program adds people you don't know to your buddy list, becoming very, very similar to a common IRC channel, where you meet people unknown to you.
Of course, this is still very different of IRC, but anyway the trend seems to be similar to other issues (IDE vs SCSI, linux "desktop environments" vs Windows, and even Windows vs MacOS :-)), where the newer technology advances and becomes very similar to the older one. This is not bad, don't misunderstand me; newer technologies add new solutions and new approaches to the old problems. It's just that I find it funny that things like this happen so often :-)
All this IMHO, of course. Maybe it's true that thing of "People that don't know history ..." ;-)
My weblog in spanish
Since this is basically an IM crossed with a personals site, let's make it useful:
- A profile that's separated into individual interests that you can search on, or at least individual keywords
- Option to list only members of your preferred gender, a certain age group, sexual orientation, etc.
- A "hot-or-not" rating where, to be fair, you can only vote if you allow others to vote on you
- The ability to FORGET YOUR PASSWORD WHEN YOU DISCONNECT. For gods' sake, how about some basic security here?
Their tour graphic, while somewhat lacking on details, places the developer squarely at the U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Which doesn't totally surprise me (home of NCSA Mosaic, NCSA Telnet, etc.).
But if they honestly think we believe there'll be that many young, good-looking women logged onto this thing at once, they're utterly insane....
Well, being at work, I'm behind a proxy. Any word on a little proxy authentication dealie in the next version? But, I will try this out when I get home.
What, me Tweet?
This looks like something that would make a great gaim plugin. It would create a new buddy group named Strangers. It would put people in that group who are on the same IM networks as you who are also using the plugin/trepia and have similar interest, location, etc.
From trying out the trepia client it seems that it doesn't take a lot of information about your interests. Just a text box named Profile. And as far as location, it was way off. London = an ocean away.
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
laid = good.
In some respects this is the LEAST interesting application of WiFi and networking.
I definitely do NOT want total strangers bugging me while I'm trying to do something on my TiBook anymore than I'd want them to yammer away on a cel phone while I'm trying to watch a movie.
Somebody hurt this moron.
Sometimes just being able to do something, like driving big rusty spikes into your eyeballs, does not make it desirable in the least.
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
It would be nice if it would work around firewalls, do the whole dynamic port thing.
This might kill the following in IRC:
ASL?
Yeah. That's really what I want to do. Meet people in my area that share my interests. Ever heard of a users group?
Develop an app that gets rid of the people around me. That I would pay for.
Wow! I just registered and found 31 people in my "area", all males, 13 of which do not reside in my country and in fact only one within the same state.
This technology will go a long way! Sure beats typing random handles into yout buddy list.
All I am finding is other Slashdot readers.
Those who trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither" -- Ben Franklin
At the bottom of the article:
/. females' to actually meet a special someone in my own block 8)
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Trepia gets slashdotted
that means we are a powerfull group, can wait to transmit '/. male looking for
One of the questions asked at some places where you donate blood is whether you pick up dates online. This is considered a risk factor for sexually transmitted diseases because it increases your exposure to people you would not meet in your ordinary activities.
I mean face it, if that chick will sleep with you after meeting you online once, who would she not sleep with.
Wrap that bone before you moan!!!
If you are not familiar with condoms, consider it an extreme case mod.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
So...because you don't want this, it's a bad thing? Is anyone forcing you to download and isntall it? Simple solution: don't run it and you won't be bothered when you're busy with whatever McTask that is so important. Problem solved.
Why so violent over someone designing something potentially neat?
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
... it's a windows only App.
Yay.
Next?
There are other licenses that are more free than the gpl which many in the open source community have chosen to use.
Only if people actually USE it.
balloon, just what I need, my IM populating itself with people I have to ignore. It is hard enough with a OLD ICQ account...Next will be a client with a feature that shares all your info with the national consumer agency so they can find you a friend :)
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
ok, this is just enough. someone "in my vicinity" called "goatse" with a profile of "first post" has a picture of the BAM. damn, it's been a few hours and already being abused horridly.
BSD is for people who love UNIX. Linux is for those who hate Microsoft.
I too have gotten the "failed" message trying to sign up or sign in to Trepia.
A little sleuthing tells us that Trepia wants to use local port 1110 and connect to 207.44.192.59, port 8206. Now, I can ping trepia.com which also comes out to 207.44.192.59. I don't have time to actually sniff the network packets, so I'll take the word of the other posters that it's clear text, but I'm willing to bet that their authentication/registration server is hosed. Just a guess.
Methinks in their excitement to get this software out to the masses, they didn't stop to put in a little more error-reporting logic on either end. Poo.
Trepia is built around informing a server where you are at all times. So naturally it's intrusive. iChat (which uses Rendezvous) requires no server and locates people on the local subnet, and if they are configured properly neighboring subnets. Completely different principle - also rendezvous is designed for much more than just this (automatic networking with little or no assistance of devices).
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
patent pending! :-/
It looks like it uses IP addresses to guess proximity (I'm at least 100 miles from my ISP...) - In Jabber everything goes through servers - only the one your account is with knows your ip, so it's not going to work without some extra stuff - but imho guessing locality to this level from ip is daft anyway (but it makes spaming harder) - a better aproach is to have the user specify their location (and turn that into coordinates). This can be done well with jabber.
This jabber world map works by having users specify their coordinates
"iChat on crack" indeed.
My first unsolicited message from an unknown party (I apologize for the language):
Hrmph.
-- clvrmnky
I met my current GF online. Spent a couple days making sure she could write complete sentences, was mostly sane, had friends, etc, then went on a date and did things the old fashioned way from there.
Can people lie to you online? Sure - but they can't lie about being crappy writers, they can't lie about having dumb political opinions, or not knowing who the President is, having never read a book exceeding 100 pages in length, or not being able to think. Smart people can pretend to be someone else, but dumb people will always be dumb.
And you can eliminate lots and lots of dumb people in a very short amount of time in an online environment.
paintball
Yeah, remember when fire was invented?
It could be used to stay warm and cook food...
it could also be used to burn people and habitats...
Illegal lighters, anyone?
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
Now nearly everyone online using this tool is a slashdotter.
Jimmy: M$ r teh suk
L1nus: amen brother!
MSCE: sigh, ms bashing is soooo 90's
karmawhore: in the 90's, russia bashes you!
MSCE: ?
reallagirl: ?
dave: ?
karmawhore: I mean
karmawhore: that soviets bash YOU! In the 90's!
cmdrtwato: +1 overrated
l1nus: lol
karmawhore: FU
Oh the horror.
\\ Mitch
Someone who is 'near' me has a picture from goatse. Damn Texans.
"The right to do something does not mean doing it is right." William Safire
I'm dead serious on this: If you're looking for meaningless sex with a MILF, and don't mind the fact that said MILF is cheating on someone, then it's the perfect place to meet women. (MILF bring anywhere from 32 on up, it's a very broad definition of MILF)
Andy yes, they love computer geeks there.
No one finds a soul mate on match.com. The site exists for people to hook up for sex. It's good at it, and I've found a number of women with whom I spent many a pleasant, attachment free evening.
And do you know how I felt in the mornings after? When the woman was gone and wouldn't be back until the next time her husband was out of town?
"I've been... Used!" (Pause) "COOL!"
Of course, I'm in a relationship now, so unless my GF dumps me I won't be using match.com to get any more action.
And as a side note, I am NOT giving out match.com user names for you to SPAM with "I heard you were easy" messages.
A quick tip though, find women who are actually looking for a guy like you. I can't tell you how many times the date started with a list of the losers that the woman had met and not shagged because they lied on their profile.
Tell the truth and take your time. Do it right and anyone will be knee deep in like minded women in a month.
Oh, and watch "The Tao of Steve" before you post the ad. Trust me, it works, but it only works on women who are interested in being picked up.
And what about the women who I am in love with, the lovely lass for whom I abandoned my kinky lustful past?
I met her rock climbing.
Internet for sex, real life for relationships.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Five real friends? (Counts on fingers my real friends ... ) Damn - maybe I need to be taking advice from you.
Know the difference between 'friends' and 'real friends'?
Your friends will help you move.
Your real friends will help you move a body.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
You think that just because a fluid is 'natural', it doesn't matter.
u ic e30082900.asp
1 gallon = 128 fluid ounces
2% MILK = 5g fat per 8 ounce serving.
1 gallon %2 milk = 80g fat, more than your daily allowance.
Just from the fat, you now have 800 calories consumed. And that's ignoring the additional calories from protines and carbs.
JUICE : ranges from 110-210 calories per 8 ounce serving.
Best case: 1760 calories consumed in that gallon of juice.
Worst case: 3360 calories in that gallon.
The target burn for anyone who isn't weight training is well under 3000 calories per day. Anything left over is converted to fat.
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/nutrition/aug00/j
Dude. Drink MORE water. Lay off the milk, you don't have to set up your own calcium farm. Your bone structure will be fine if you consume the 1-2 8-ounce servings a day, instead of the 16 you're currently taking.
Lay off carbs. That means juice. That means potatos. Don't give them up, but make sure you curtail them quite a bit.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
DON'T LOG IN!
One jerk used the goatse.cx pic as his userpic.
My God what a trauma.
I feel ill.
Hurk.
The jerk's username was mistertewo
My stomach is churning.
*hurl*
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
http://www.ageofconsent.com/
So before you go clubbing in a strange town or country, for your own sake, consult this website.
It can save your ass...
literally.
Based on upvotes, Ageism is the only "-ism" Slashdotters care about and think isn't SJW
I'm looking for people who like anime, who play RPGs, who read Science Fiction and/or Fantasy, who play video games.
That stuff isn't _that_ easy to fake since they involve specific knowledge of relatively unusual subjects, but more importantly, who would _WANT_ to fake that? The type of people who want to lie to impress other people aren't going to lie about being geeks.
Another thing that saves me is more than half the people i meet online is through friends who i know well and trust introducing me to people they know in person.
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I'm in the Bay Area, and it was showing people in Finlind, Sweden, and L.A. (of all places) as being near me....L.A. is about as far away from the Bay Area as one can get....Politically....
Seriously, for a '2.0' this definately needs some work on the location algorithim....
Does anybody actually ask for an id from a potential mate before going out with them? Looks I've found can be highly deceiving.
I can just imagine being in the middle of making out.. her hands slip into your pants and yours into her shirt.. you start removing clothing.. and then just as you both are naked you say, "By the way, can I see an id?"
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
I just tried your IM program
First off, I want to say your method of locating people "near" me is clearly using a definition of "near" with which I am not familiar. While in the cosmic sense, the UK is a stone's throw from the US East coast, it's not what I had in mind when I read your ad copy.
Second, you desperately need code with which to block users, or at the very least their pics.
In five minutes of use, I was presented with two people using the main pic from goatse.cx as their pic, and while censoring pics is not practical, I would have loved to right click on the image and "Block images from this user," "Block this user's pic," or best of all "Block this user completely."
Third, it really is a mind numbingly primitive IM program. Aside from the alleged location technology it has no features to separate it from the pack.
Chat is little more than what I saw in the VAX "talk" program back in my college days.
The fact that it stores your password and can't be dissuaded form doing so is a major security issue.
It has no user search feature, even for finding things as rudimentary as the user name of someone you already talked to in the past.
I could go on, but it would be tiresome.
To be perfectly blunt, my ex girlfriend coded together a more advanced IM program while completing a free "Learn to program in networked Java" course she downloaded off the web. I'm not joking and I'm not exaggerating.
Next time, try asking users for some geographic location data, like their city and state or their ZIP code.
And by the way, using the IP address as a way of accurately locating users is dicey at best. I recommend your developers look through the web for more information. You'll find you've already set yourselves up for failure.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
I really like the idea, but it is going to need a *LOT* more people before it becomes useful. I just registered on a whim, and there are 30 people showing up in my list.. some from Texas, one from Holland, a couple from MA... and I'm in MD, USA. I can only guess that I'm getting these people because there are no people signed on within a thousand miles of me. It needs at least a couple of people for every 20 square miles in an area before it will be effective in that area, IMO.
I'm not sure about picking up women with online methods, but it would at least be a great way to find video gaming buddies, or people interested in specific hobby X. I find it rather embarassing to ask a stranger if he/she plays Counter-Strike in person..
This was taken directly from the license agreement in the installer.
:)
Is it just me, or does this scare you as well?
"ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL SUBMITTED OR SENT TO TREPIA, INC., WILL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE CONFIDENTIAL OR SECRET. By submitting or entering information into the Trepia Application or the Trepia Website, or into the Trepia Service you (1) warrant that you have no rights of any kind to the Material; that to the best of your knowledge no other party has any rights to the Material; (2) grant Trepia, Inc. an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, transmit and distribute the Material in all media, and you further agree that Trepia, Inc. is free to use any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques or other materials you send us for any purpose." Why must you always lose your rights if you discuss something (not likely) potentially mind boggling on these types of services. I believe they have something similar in the ICQ and MSN agreements as well.. First post!! On Slashdot..
Tried it just for kicks. I got about 30 people, all of them male, some from Minnesota, Virginia, and New York (I'm from Phoenix, AZ). You'd be much better off joining a singles outings club or taking some dance lessons.
"Geek guy looking to sex0r hot nekkid chicks!!! WTF?!?!?! ALL I SEE ARE MORE GEEK GUYS!!!"
"Computer science student, full time slacker."
"woo hoo. Go /.
So far, exactly one person from my state, much less city. Whatever algorithm they're using...sux0rz."
"I run a commecial game development company, RCAM Games, located at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL. I also attend Olympia High School. Games my company has worked on include, Quake III, Half-Life, Counter-strike, and many others. I don't date Mandy Moore anymore, even though shes still in my icon."
"likes: croquet, inclement weather, linux, c-span, david foster wallace dislikes: randroids, cheese product"
"Computers, programming, sci-fi, astronomy, cigars"
"Bored, Anyone fancy a drink? :)
I'm an alcoholic/student/alcoholic studying at University of Durham in sunny england!"
"Computer Science, Programming, Game Developing, Tennis,"
Wow all geeks^^
Men: 40 Women: 1 (that has since disappeared)
Why are you talking to a toy?
HAHA So funny
what the hell is this .exe....what am is supposed to do with this? where's the .out?
WELL! Now that we've gotten THAT out of the way.......lets go meet some people..........The sad thing is that this should probably be in M$'s EULA too....
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deft: i see you fould this on /. too. i dont see anyone remotely near me on this junk.... you having better results? :) ;p :D /. ;) ;) :D :P ;) :D ;P ;P
Sepherus: Not really, apparently it adds nearby people then pads your list. There were only about 15k members before slashdotting, so they would be spread pretty thinly
deft: yeah, i guess. dissapointing. i sure do saee alot of people here that im guessing are the same people id see at a lan party
deft: what i DONT see are any girls that look like the ones http://www.trepia.com/tour/ there
deft:
Sepherus: hehehe, yep
Sepherus: if you do see any, be highly suspiciuous
deft: i can tell alot of the people on right now read
deft: they have that "no sun" look
Sepherus: lol
Sepherus: Most other people don't list unix in their profile
deft: unless the have no dick, and cant spell
deft: oh well, maybe this will get popular and i can start tapping into the local college girls
deft: ill type something stupid like "OMG YOU GO TO CSUN!!!!"
Sepherus: A bit of an incentive for getting the software well known
deft: im off to post flyers att he local colleges
deft: this is rediculous, not ONE person in california
deft: and the rest gets populated by people who havent picked a location
Sepherus: I've got loads
deft: of people in cali?
Sepherus: I have more CA than you and I'm in the UK
deft: ok, now thats just bunk
deft: or, if im correct, thats bollocks?
Sepherus: yep
deft: did i use that right?
Sepherus: yep
deft: gotta shape up my cross-pond slang
Sepherus: Most of them have left, just someone in LA
deft: once they add the "block people by sex" everyone dissapears
Sepherus: lol
deft: well, i ve designed a system something like this, and i do understand that to get it started, you have to loosen constraints... its hard to build momentum
deft: id bet that is why they have a notable lack of features for restricting people
deft: they can see that it would look desolate without the padding
deft: lol, R00ted just joined.... this is definitely slashdotted
Sepherus: lol
Sepherus: The system certainly has potential
Sepherus: yep
Sepherus: crap, wrong window
deft: i should just post our conversation on slashdot
deft: think we'll get modded up this late in the story?
Sepherus: Perhaps, there may be some moderators in Athe middle of the jungle just waking up
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
That's cool, but you will never find any hot chicks on Jabber. Just a bunch of computer geeks.
Sounds like it would be reviving the most-missed aspect of the local BBS.
Man, the registration server still be down. Its past 20:00 hrs here in Austin, TX and no luck.
Maybe tomorrow I'll meet all the Goatse fans on this thing.
What, me Tweet?
Did you ever consider the possibility that you're a miserable bastard? Instead of optimizing your gut, how about working on your personality?
Your ideas won't save your from people like the girl in Swimfan who was could stalk people online and off. :)
Thanks. Geeks have always been my favorite people. :-)
mod down this entire thread -- or at least the last 50 posts of it? Since when did Slashdot become MikeFM's personal nutritional/relationship/rehabilitation service??
....Bethanie....
And a message to Mike -- Dude. You better get your ass back to work, because I bet there's about 150 other guys on Slashdot right now out of work who would take your place in a heartbeat!
Just keepin' it real.
The Trepia program essentially turns network users into homing beacons. If they're sitting at their PCs and running the software, they broadcast their general locations along with whatever personal data they choose to make available. If two or more Trepia users happen to be near each other, they instantly become aware of that fact and are able to interact.
So if two Trepia-using college students who share a passion for the "Matrix" movies and the "Smallville" TV show are on the same campuswide network, they can electronically see each other. They are able to swap text messages and, soon, physically meet.
So in the dorms if all the geeks on saturday nite share the same passion for "HOT CHICKS," they would "swap text messages and, soon, physically meet?"
Isn't that what they call LAN parties?
woo... we're reinventing the wheel! =P
ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL SUBMITTED OR SENT TO TREPIA, INC., WILL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE CONFIDENTIAL OR SECRET. By submitting or entering information into the Trepia Application or the Trepia Website, or into the Trepia Service you (1) warrant that you have no rights of any kind to the Material; that to the best of your knowledge no other party has any rights to the Material; (2) grant Trepia, Inc. an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, transmit and distribute the Material in all media, and you further agree that Trepia, Inc. is free to use any ideas, know-how, concepts, techniques or other materials you send us for any purpose.
As I read it in the EULA (too lazy to cut 'n paste, but if you care you've probably already installed it anyway), the idea behind this cute little app is "Patent Pending". Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but assuming I'm right, isn't that yet another crappy patent app?
I mean I think it's a great idea, and I hope the company does well, but I think people should be allowed to make their own clients etc. (which is specifically naughty under the EULA).
I don't even know where the line between patentable and not is anymore(officially as opposed to what we've seen in practise in recent years).
--Not to be worried, Pitr fix.
Its a sausage fest though the one chick i talked to nrd heh is cool. Is she was a chick LOL!
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I installed this, logged on, and found 121 people around me! Considering I'm in the backwater of SW Michigan, this was surprising. Oh, look: some of them are in Texas, one's in Europe. How's this thing work, again?