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This could be huge for small bands and artists. Yesterday at a show in Berlin the drummer kept talking about the bands Facebook page and handing out paper with
by kbrwn 11y ago
This could be huge for small bands and artists. Yesterday at a show in Berlin the drummer kept talking about the bands Facebook page and handing out paper with the link. If a band could just have a becon that sent out push notifications to the fb app it could increase engagement significantly.
- andreyf 11y agoThere's no way to implement that on iOS, afaik. While the app is running, it can scan for nearby beacons and send that info to Facebook to pull down notifications. Push notifications would have to originate on Facebook's end, though.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoBeacons can't send push notifications. Beacons are equivalent of light houses in 2.4GHz spectrum. They just keep broadcasting their presence and send their UUID. Everything else is done via the apps installed on your device. (That's, coincidentally, is also why a lot of dream scenarios for beacons can't take off - they literally require you to have an Internet connection and a vendor-specific app on your phone to do anything interesting, which is not something you can expect of people outdoors. Facebook has a really good chance of making some of the beacon ideas work, because a/ almost everyone has their app, and b/ it's an app that people actually want to use outdoors, and they power up their mobile connection for that.)