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Foursquare-Style Checking In For Couch Potatoes
This CNN article discusses a new breed of mobile "check-in" apps for people who aren't particularly mobile. The news apps were borne from the popularity of Foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook Places, but instead of focusing on locations you've been, they spotlight movies and TV shows you watch, as well as books you read and video games you play.
"These apps let users earn virtual rewards and meet fans with similar interests. Users also can push their check-ins to other sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to keep the conversation going. They each have their own benefits on top of that, from giving users recommendations based on the things they already like to letting them unlock videos and other extras when they've become 'super fans' of a show. ... While people in the United States may all have different hobbies and engage in different activities away from home, 'we know most people do three things — they eat, they sleep and they watch TV,' [Miso's CEO, Somrat Niyogi said.] 'We think the market is massive. We think this is going to be a much bigger market' than location-based apps, he added."
If you never get off the couch, why do you need a mobile app?
... all the way to the bank.
FourGoHookupPlaces: for telling your friends when and who you procreate with! BONUS: use your iphone's built-in accelerometer to compute your "performance", and try to best your friends! Become the virtual "mayor" of PEOPLE! Make lovemaking an ONLINE social game!
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
I've been using GetGlue for a couple months and am still in love with it (unlike my fling with FourSquare that mostly died out after a few weeks.) Not only is GetGlue a lot more tailored for my geeky interests than FourSquare, it's nice to be able to check into stuff without worry about the frickin GPS coordinates being off and it claiming i'm not within 200 meters when i'm standing right inside the venue =P
Of course on the downside that means that there are a number of people on GetGlue who will check into anything and everything as frequently as possible just in order to accumulate stickers/badges/achievements. Personally i only check into stuff that i'm actually doing and the people who've accumulated hundreds of stickers, thousands of "friends", and tens of thousands of "liked" things can irk me a bit, but i try and just remind myself that it's not actually a contest, despite what some of them seem to think. I'd rather have my stickers and "likes" reflect who i actually am, rather than how obsessively i can click on links.
Perhaps i should check out the other sites mentioned in the article, though i'm not sure if i'd want to maintain a presence on more than one such site. Checking-in when i start watching a show or playing a game or reading a book isn't too bad, but having to do so at two or three different sites might start to get a bit cumbersome.
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All of that technology, research, development, infrastructure, etc. just so people can tell everyone else what they're watching on TV.
Anyone in favor of starting over the internet?
...they eat, they sleep and they shit. So where is the mobile app where one can "like" Charmin? Surely that'd reach an even bigger demographic than TV!
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Does this work with Friendster and myspace?
This ushers in a whole new golden era of pointless web apps that makes me wonder how much information stupid people are willing to share without their knowledge. Incredibly there is no limit.
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
...existence. Call it Second Existence. Maybe there is something more more catchy you could call it.
Their they're doing there hair.
I'm going to create a social network that links one person up with another based on similarities between their porn downloads! Just one problem... what should I call it?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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Maybe you should get a frickin' first life!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
This could be real fun. Everyone set up a feedback loop where one site updates the other, then that site updates the 1st one. Kick off one post and sit back and watch the fun... Ohhhhhhh..... Boyyyyyyyyyyyyyy..
This sounds like a grindathon mmo in the form of a social networking app.
Every one of us who visits this web site does at least one thing that is not in that list "Eat, Sleep, Watch TV"
We Read/Post things on Slashdot.
In these days when the economy is in rough shape, unemployment is high, and jobs aren't easy to come by, where are people getting all this time to do this stuff?
Personally, between work, school, and girlfriend, I am often at a crossroads where I must only choose two of the three. Girlfriend has been in Norway for over two weeks, and school doesn't start until the 30th, so I've just had work and I still only manage to pull about 50 hours a week. It seems to me there are lot of people who are lucky and have enough free time, or there are a lot of people slacking off in other areas of their life. Hell, it took me 30 minutes just to find a parking spot when I got home at midnight last night.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
As hard as it is to use the term 'Paradigm Engineering' with a straight face, isn't it way past the time when somebody started working on a system that ISN'T just about mapping, tracking, categorising, labelling and snooping on people for the benefit of the first bunch of market researchers to reach your door waving a billion-dollar cheque?
What's next? 'The Dollhouse' by 2015?
I swear, I'm going to have to start investing in tinfoil hats soon.
Seems we discussed this the other day, you know where this guy gaming 4square with 9 lines of Perl included a link to what he diplomatically (IMHO) called "an impassioned article" in the NYT Fashion & Style section about people who (hmmmm, how to phrase this without being modded flamebait or troll....) are, uhhhhh, friggin morons!
Damn! I tried my best to not call them names, but I just couldn't help myself. We read the NYT article while eating dinner yesterday & we couldn't stop ridiculing the people in --or the author of-- the article. Oh well.
I actually designed and coded a website like this - but there is a lot more potential to gain from item based sites than location based achievements. For me, it serves as a database of all the films and TV shows I've seen - so I didn't forget specific reasons for liking/hating a movie. I can also check in an instant whether I've seen something, rather than having to read through a description or watch a trailer. The equivalent to the Twitter/Facebook updates from my site would be Yelp reviews posted to your Facebook wall when you wrote them - much more useful than just a "here I am!"
I know of another similar site for books (mine supports books, music, and video games, as well, but the main focus so far has been the movie/TV features) that allows you to track how many pages you've read in a book, etc - could be pretty useful if you read a bunch of books at once, and have to return some to the library before you're done.
If anyone has feedback/ideas/suggestions feel free to post them here, or use the contact form on http://shortreviews.net/ - even though the site is fairly young I've dedicated a lot of time to features that I thought were useful, but I'm always looking for ways to improve it for other people. If you doubt my passion and dedication you can always take a glance at the reviews I've written and amount of movies I've watched http://shortreviews.net/user/1-unfair/ :)
"I'm the mayor of your mom"
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Umm, that would be the "SitOrSquat: Bathroom Finder" app [http://www.sitorsquat.com/sitorsquat/mobile/index], sponsored by Charmin.
They each have their own benefits on top of that, from giving users recommendations based on the things they already like to letting them unlock videos and other extras when they've become 'super fans' of a show. ...
This reminds me of this presentation by Jesse Schell.
They have phones in booths now? Finally! I don't have to lug this cell phone around. - Hermes
You're not even going the right way. You should have turned left before. It's funny actually, when you think about it.
Someday we'll remember this and laugh and laugh and laugh... Ohoh boy.
Actually, something like this would actually make Twitter and Facebook on the Xbox 360 useful. Just as long as it doesn't do something like the pre-release version of Uncharted 2 was doing - automatically tweeting way too much. Maybe sending a status update when you unlock an achievement would be a nice feature.
Freedom is drinking a beer in the park when you're supposed to be at work.
100% right!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"— they eat, they sleep and they watch TV,' [Miso's CEO, Somrat Niyogi said.] 'We think the market is massive."
Possible translation? "lolfat"
Ah am not a crook! (\(-__-)/)
"Soulskill just checked in on 4chan's /b/ board."
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I do have a first life, but it doesn't have any 6ft tall anthropomorphic penises. For that, I need to get my fix with Second Life.
...and that's that there is already way too much useless information being shared as it is. Pardon me for being crass, but who gives a shit that you're sitting on your ass eating a sandwich watching Jersey Shore or something?? It's bad enough to wade through the drivel to try to find something you actually want to know on blogs, Facebook, or other social networks. Do we really need to know every minute detail of everybody's life all the time?
10 FILL MUG WITH COFFEE
20 DRINK COFFEE
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