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Latitude for Facebook Events

41 points by todsul 15y ago

chexton 15y ago
Looks interesting...my main concern with these apps is always battery life. My battery gets slammed even without location updates running in the background.
- schappim 15y ago
  I just gave it a go and my battery didn't seem to drain any faster than usual. I can't wait till these guys make an Android version.
  - nishantm 15y ago
    That is in the works as I type this. We're hoping to get it out as soon as possible!
chrisrickard 15y ago
Looks great guys, slick UI, intuitive, and something I have actually been thinking about for a while.
scos506 15y ago
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders. Althought there will always be a certain level of battery drain from use of GPS hareware, we've done extensive research to intelligently balance location updates with energy consumption based on a number of context based factors.
chrisrickard 15y ago
been using it for about 30 minutes - and the battery life actually seems great
BrianGaffney 15y ago
I like that I can watch as people arrive. Nice to see a real time view rather than call people to find out how far off they are. Would be awesome to see a large number of people descend on a big party or similar.
hamidnazari 15y ago
For a second I was really excited about this, until I realised I don't have an iPhone. Not saying as a startup you should shift your focus on other platforms at all, but are you guys working on an Android app at the moment?
- dlox 15y ago
  We sure are. Android is an awesome mobile platform and we're coding it up now!
trotsky 15y ago
Would be neat to see a time lapse video of a bunch of guests arriving to a party or other big event sort of in the vein of this fedex plane thunderstorm reroute timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrSBzy8NwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrSBzy8NwQ
duncancarroll 15y ago
Clock at 4:20pm ಠ_ಠ
- jlam3279 15y ago
  Perhaps they could change it to the time of their launch? http://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc/In-iPhone-advertisements-why-is-the-time-always-set-to-9-42-a-m-on-the-clock http://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc/In-iPhone-advertis...
hirenj 15y ago
I'd love an Android version of this that hooks up into the calendars that I sync. I love the idea that I can automatically let people know roughly where I am (or more importantly, others are) if I'm running late to a meeting. A cool feature I could think of is that the app can give estimates of how long it will take for person x to arrive given that they are walking/driving on public transportation. Also, I find it incredibly amusing that the Moojive team is based in Sydney. Knowing the public transportation/traffic there it's only logical that this app came from there. If there's one constant in life, it's that you're going to be late to something in Sydney.

41 points by todsul 15y ago

Looks interesting...my main concern with these apps is always battery life. My battery gets slammed even without location updates running in the background.

schappim 15y ago
I just gave it a go and my battery didn't seem to drain any faster than usual. I can't wait till these guys make an Android version.
- nishantm 15y ago
  That is in the works as I type this. We're hoping to get it out as soon as possible!

chrisrickard 15y ago

Looks great guys, slick UI, intuitive, and something I have actually been thinking about for a while.

scos506 15y ago

Hi, I'm one of the co-founders. Althought there will always be a certain level of battery drain from use of GPS hareware, we've done extensive research to intelligently balance location updates with energy consumption based on a number of context based factors.

chrisrickard 15y ago

been using it for about 30 minutes - and the battery life actually seems great

BrianGaffney 15y ago

I like that I can watch as people arrive. Nice to see a real time view rather than call people to find out how far off they are. Would be awesome to see a large number of people descend on a big party or similar.

hamidnazari 15y ago

For a second I was really excited about this, until I realised I don't have an iPhone. Not saying as a startup you should shift your focus on other platforms at all, but are you guys working on an Android app at the moment?

dlox 15y ago
We sure are. Android is an awesome mobile platform and we're coding it up now!

trotsky 15y ago

Would be neat to see a time lapse video of a bunch of guests arriving to a party or other big event sort of in the vein of this fedex plane thunderstorm reroute timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrSBzy8NwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrSBzy8NwQ

duncancarroll 15y ago

Clock at 4:20pm ಠ_ಠ

jlam3279 15y ago
Perhaps they could change it to the time of their launch? http://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc/In-iPhone-advertisements-why-is-the-time-always-set-to-9-42-a-m-on-the-clock http://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc/In-iPhone-advertis...

hirenj 15y ago

I'd love an Android version of this that hooks up into the calendars that I sync. I love the idea that I can automatically let people know roughly where I am (or more importantly, others are) if I'm running late to a meeting. A cool feature I could think of is that the app can give estimates of how long it will take for person x to arrive given that they are walking/driving on public transportation. Also, I find it incredibly amusing that the Moojive team is based in Sydney. Knowing the public transportation/traffic there it's only logical that this app came from there. If there's one constant in life, it's that you're going to be late to something in Sydney.