ParisLemon: Meet Me At… Screw It, Here’s Where I Am
mturro
· 1 year ago
For me to get really excited about these kinds of services they not only will have to have an "off the grid" feature, but will have to be able to automatically switch it on and off in case I forget. Case in point: if I don't want just anybody to know where I live and where I work I should be able to add these addresses as "off grid locations" and whenever I get within X miles the service would automatically stop tracking.
itafroma
· 1 year ago
I've been using Brightkite in earnest for the past couple of weeks, and there are two things that are making this a pointless exercise: 1) Brightkite loses my texts, or doesn't recognize them, even though I'm using the correct syntax. And it's a pain in the ass to text every time I stop somewhere. 2) My two highest locations, by far, of course, are where I live and where I work. Not very interesting.
needcaffeine
· 1 year ago
I like brightkite, and prefer to post where I am versus having people follow me around. There are so many security/privacy concerns with that....such as stalkers, government, employer watching.
I know it's easy to do a triangulation; which I do often to find people. But I'd rather people not know the exact 100+ meters where I am; to the 4 blocks ok.
i'm blackout
· 1 year ago
Have you looked into Dodgeball at all?
www.dodgeball.com
It's owned by Google.
MG Siegler
· 1 year ago
@mturro - yeah auto shut-off is a good point.
@itafroma - i haven't used it via txt, only the web interface so far. But yes, I hear you on the 'home' part. I guess we have to be more exciting :)
MG Siegler
· 1 year ago
@needcaffine - certainly many, many people will share you sentiment
@imblackout - yes, i have a dodgeball account. it's okay, a bit too cumbersome. IMHO, google has kind of dropped the (dodge)ball since it purchased them. we'll see if/how they use it with android. of course they also own Jaiku now.
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I know it's easy to do a triangulation; which I do often to find people. But I'd rather people not know the exact 100+ meters where I am; to the 4 blocks ok.
www.dodgeball.com
It's owned by Google.
@itafroma - i haven't used it via txt, only the web interface so far. But yes, I hear you on the 'home' part. I guess we have to be more exciting :)
@imblackout - yes, i have a dodgeball account. it's okay, a bit too cumbersome. IMHO, google has kind of dropped the (dodge)ball since it purchased them. we'll see if/how they use it with android. of course they also own Jaiku now.