Dodgeball updates your position based on sms. Two features make it better than just texting your friends:
1. You can alert friends of friends, and end up meeting people in your extended network who happen to be at the same bar.
2. Your updates can be read online.
That second feature has some overlap with mobile blogging, something Google just got into...
But Dodgeball has all the dating tools of a singles site, too.
You may be doing a lot more than just checking for their name on the internet.
When google starts aggregating information from the internet, Orkut, blogger, gmail, and now dodgeball, under a "peopleranking" algorithm, it will be a very interesting world.
Just think about how much power a neighborhood watch group equipped with camera phones can have by using those four services. Throw in google.maps (which I think will eventually use a livestream from Keyhole) and you are approaching Total Information Awareness for citizens.
The more I think about it, the more I'd like to see them move their servers into international waters right away.
I guess you meant to contrast that with the way that Friendster keeps finding new ways to be slow and bug ridden?
Seriously, Friendster seems to find new ways to go haywire every time they add features, and their message alert system has been broken for years now.
Google may not have done much for Orkut except keep its interface clean and its focus relatively pure. Friendster, on the other hand, looks more like the old school AOL every day.
About two years ago I saw a guy speak at a school board meeting, and complain about how difficult it was to be a substitute teacher--it's hard to hold kids accountable when you don't know their names or anything about them. He said he envisioned a system where kids would all where electronic ID badges (he didn't refer to RFID but he described the concept) and all school staff would get some kind of tagger that could read the kids info, and append the disciplinary file.
Everybody thought this was absurdly authoritarian, but 2 years later there are plans to start tracking students using RFIDS...and the crazy thing the guy said:
"When some class clown shoots a spit ball, I should be able to fire a demerit right back"
is also closer to reality.
Part of the Blockbuster thing was being 'famility friendly' meaning that you don't have to worry about your kids accidentally grabbing a copy of debbie does dallas.
Actually, it means that you don't have to worry that the guy who is looking for Debbie Does Dallas is going to accidentally grab your kids.
Using their foreheads to CRUSH BREWSKis! /attention-getting-but-not-too-funny-pun
Wil,
A couple of months ago, at three in the morning, I caught the movie you starred in with Soleil Moon Frye, The Girls' Room. I enjoyed it a lot--not least because of your perfectly delivered line about why we don't call fraternities "frats." I've heard that exact same line from a lot of actual Greeks, and it was impressive to see such a non-stereotyped portrayal. But for all that it's a fun, interesting, and smart movie, with a unique role for you, it seems odd that you chose to make a film with another former child actor..? Or was it?
You've come to terms (mostly?) with your early roles and their "residual" effects...Did you and Soleil discuss this? Kid around about how you're the ones that made it? Or did you just give her the cold shoulder because she no longer has that certain something?
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Dodgeball's tech/software doesn't do gps search.
Dodgeball updates your position based on sms.
Two features make it better than just texting your friends:
1. You can alert friends of friends, and end up meeting people in your extended network who happen to be at the same bar.
2. Your updates can be read online.
That second feature has some overlap with mobile blogging, something Google just got into...
But Dodgeball has all the dating tools of a singles site, too.
You may be doing a lot more than just checking for their name on the internet. When google starts aggregating information from the internet, Orkut, blogger, gmail, and now dodgeball, under a "peopleranking" algorithm, it will be a very interesting world. Just think about how much power a neighborhood watch group equipped with camera phones can have by using those four services. Throw in google.maps (which I think will eventually use a livestream from Keyhole) and you are approaching Total Information Awareness for citizens. The more I think about it, the more I'd like to see them move their servers into international waters right away.
I guess you meant to contrast that with the way that Friendster keeps finding new ways to be slow and bug ridden? Seriously, Friendster seems to find new ways to go haywire every time they add features, and their message alert system has been broken for years now. Google may not have done much for Orkut except keep its interface clean and its focus relatively pure. Friendster, on the other hand, looks more like the old school AOL every day.
About two years ago I saw a guy speak at a school board meeting, and complain about how difficult it was to be a substitute teacher--it's hard to hold kids accountable when you don't know their names or anything about them. He said he envisioned a system where kids would all where electronic ID badges (he didn't refer to RFID but he described the concept) and all school staff would get some kind of tagger that could read the kids info, and append the disciplinary file. Everybody thought this was absurdly authoritarian, but 2 years later there are plans to start tracking students using RFIDS...and the crazy thing the guy said: "When some class clown shoots a spit ball, I should be able to fire a demerit right back" is also closer to reality.
Part of the Blockbuster thing was being 'famility friendly' meaning that you don't have to worry about your kids accidentally grabbing a copy of debbie does dallas.
Actually, it means that you don't have to worry that the guy who is looking for Debbie Does Dallas is going to accidentally grab your kids.
Using their foreheads to CRUSH BREWSKis!
/attention-getting-but-not-too-funny-pun
Wil, A couple of months ago, at three in the morning, I caught the movie you starred in with Soleil Moon Frye, The Girls' Room. I enjoyed it a lot--not least because of your perfectly delivered line about why we don't call fraternities "frats."
I've heard that exact same line from a lot of actual Greeks, and it was impressive to see such a non-stereotyped portrayal.
But for all that it's a fun, interesting, and smart movie, with a unique role for you, it seems odd that you chose to make a film with another former child actor..?
Or was it?
You've come to terms (mostly?) with your early roles and their "residual" effects...Did you and Soleil discuss this?
Kid around about how you're the ones that made it?
Or did you just give her the cold shoulder because she no longer has that certain something?