Bethereapp. Connections. Rround. Discover People and Photos around you in realtime. WhosHere. WhosHere. Young Start-up Hyphos Helps College Students Find Activity Partners - Liz Gannes - Social. Hyphos Blog. The closest group of friends you never knew you had. Igobubble. The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know. There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today.
It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probably would like to meet. This type of discovery mechanism is already being made possible by a number of services, including the checkin apps like Foursquare and Gowalla, the automated discovery of nearby folks via Sonar and Banjo, the group chatting in Yobongo, and the micro-networks that emerge through LoKast. All of these companies are playing with the idea of location-based social networks, attempting to connect you to others around you through varying means.
WNM Live. Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight? Tonight I’m getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta).
What is Highlight? Well, two weeks ago, in the Next Web, I named it as one of two apps that will “win” SXSW. Kismet. All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble. It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming.
What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s hard to discern the advantages of one over another. They can’t all be winners. Is the app for business networking or making new friends? Does it use check-in data from other networks like Facebook and Foursquare, or does it just connect you with your friends? Guest post: Location-Based Services – it's game on! This ia a guest post by Justin Davies, founder of NinetyTen, a UK-based consultancy providing mobile community and location aware solutions to companies.
Davies also founded the now defunct BuddyPing, an early mobile social networking community based on the realtime location of users. Events, Activities, Interests & More. Professional networking iPhone App. Glassmap. Mingle. Manage events and expand your business network through Unsocial. It is a mobile iphone, android, blackberry, and windows mobile 7 application. Surprise! Location App Highlight Actually Creates Serendipity. The big promise of location-based mobile apps is that they can help you find something great in real life without you meaning to look for it.
But that hasn’t usually been my experience. Instead, whether because of the friction of having to check in, the lack of adoption by friends outside of tech, or whatever else, I simply forget to use them. That has changed with Highlight, a new passive location app for iOS that shows you when Facebook users with friends and interests in common are nearby. Glancee.com 476 UVs for April 2012.
Message Sharing Service. AthElite. Angel Investors and Startup Funding. Popset. Phonedeck. Helping your family and friends find you. ► Young Love by Mystery Jets and Laura Marling. The Ultimate Guide To TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011. TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has just wrapped.
Rate Your Ex. Thirsty. Hackathon Highlights: Staff Favorites From The Disrupt SF Hackathon. It’s been nearly 24 hours since the start of the Hackathon and the hax0rs have hax3d.
We’ve seen 130 projects pitched in just 60 seconds each, all created in under 24 hours. While all of the projects were wonderful (really — this was perhaps our best Hackathon yet), some of them really struck the right key with the TechCrunch writers in the audience. In no particular order (and with no indication as to who might walk away a winner), some of the staff favorites: ClubReport – Gives you a live audio stream of clubs around the city, helping you figure out which one you want to hop to. Justabout – An About.me for business.
Weather Checker – A mashup of Weather Underground and Google Calendar. SportBot: Monitors and analyzes tweets about sporting events, and generates a live blog-esque text summary of the event based off popular tweets. Ex-Rated: Lets you rate your exes and peruse the ratings of potential suitors. @shopr – matches buyers and sellers on Twitter. Tracks Is Sort Of Like Color For Normal People. Of all the things written about the heavily funded Color, there is no denying that it’s confusing to a lot of people, at least at first.
Updates have helped this a bit, but the app relies so much on technology in the background, that it almost seems as if you’re doing something wrong when you’re using it. Tracks, a new app launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, offers similar photo clusters done on the fly. But it’s much, much easier to understand. The examples the team gives for uses range from a pub crawl with friends to a family vacation. You and the people with you (who have to be explicitly invited into a group, rather than Color’s automatic method) create picture albums on the fly. To me, the latter is something that has always interested me about Color. Also cool is the map view, which shows the path of your Track.
And Tracks smartly angle themselves towards another trend in mobile photos: physical photo books.