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More like Vague amirite! But seriously, I am unclear on pretty much every aspect of this. Even the screenshots give very little info. I don't know if I'm going
by devindotcom 12y ago
More like Vague amirite!
But seriously, I am unclear on pretty much every aspect of this. Even the screenshots give very little info. I don't know if I'm going to need to sign up for an account, or whether I'd be receiving "infections" from Portland and Boise or just up the block here in Seattle. And since I'm guessing 90% of these items are going to originate on the wider net to begin with, or be posted there simultaneously, the benefit to me seems dubious at best.
A more limited version that only sends stuff over local wifi or using local wifi as a beacon to make an ad hoc connection between "carriers" would be cool, though. More hyperlocal, you can be sure if the thing has only taken two or three steps, it was someone nearby who made it. Maybe that's how it works; there's no way to know for sure and I don't really plan to find out!
- kghose 12y agoI've never used it, but our CEO swears by "Yik-Yak" (I wrote "Whisper" which was wrong)
- sethammons 12y agoThe first thing I thought of was something I saw at a weekend hack event: in a disaster or when no network can be found, it looks for nearby phones over blutooth and propogates messages until the original message eventually finds a phone to send out a communication over data or wifi.
- devindotcom 12y agoYeah I love the idea of this kind of robust mesh. I think it'll happen eventually. Alternatively it could propagate until it reaches whoever it's going to on the limited network (your friend in a different neighborhood) and then send out a kill order for the other propagating packets.
- nitrogen 12y agoThe kill order sounds like it could waste as much bandwidth as the duplicated message copies, and be exploitable to suppress messages unless it requires a signature from the message's recipient.
- comrh 12y agoThis sounds so interesting. Any more info (where you saw it or name)?
- sethammons 12y agoIt was at LAHacks. I don't recall the name of the hacker or project though. :-(
- fastball 12y agoFireChat does this. Not sure it was the aforementioned LAHacks project though.
- peteretep 12y agoI like that idea, but I'd guess Bluetooth range would limit it. I wonder if you could do something with special packets and wireless cards in promiscuous mode?
- smsm42 12y agoYep, I opened the page and my only thought was "nice pictures, but what this things actually does?" Right, it spreads information. So does www, email, twitter, facebook, tumblr and I could be here all day listing the rest. What is this specific thing?
- orblivion 12y agoWell it doesn't seem like it's supposed to be a very serious utility, so I think the vagueness is just supposed to give it a cool factor. I like it.