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Friday, August 27, 2010
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Just saw the strangest car crash, a truck flipped on its side right outside my door. Nobody was hurt. Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronpk/4931864711/ -
What's next for check-in apps? http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08/27/checkin.apps/index.html Featuring @scvngr, @geoloqi, Foursquare, and others.
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@mdusing Sure! I just sent you a new version of the app, you shouldn't have any trouble with that one!
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Portland, Oregon • Fri, August 27, 2010 11:37amburrito to go
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What's Next for Check-In Apps? (www.cnn.com)
An open-source group called geoloqi is trying to take that idea of an automated check-in radius even further.
The volunteer group of app developers, which is based in Portland, Oregon, is working on a website and app that will help trigger events if and when a person walks up to certain pre-set locations.
For example, you would be able to set the app to text you your shopping list when you went within a certain distance of your favorite grocery store.
Or, if you didn't show up to work by 9 a.m., you could set the app automatically to e-mail your boss saying that you're late, said Aaron Parecki, geoloqi's founder.
"We're calling these geonotes," he said, "and these are location-based notes so you can leave yourself a note that is tied to a location and pops up when you're there."
The site and the app should be up and running in about a month, he said. Geoloqi won't be a social network, exactly, but it could be integrated into Foursquare, Gowalla or other location-based networks, he said. The group has one new project up -- it's a Seattle, Washington-based website that can send you a text message, in real time, when a 911 call is placed within a certain radius of you.
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@Tropo 20 minutes for a raffle app? That's kind of awesome.
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RT @bradfordcross: Paul Allen: I am trolling you about patenting the act of patent trolling so I can sue you for patent trolling. meta- ...
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I have yet to find a better medium than IRC for receiving real-time updates from a variety of sources on multiple devices.
