Re:Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Busi...
by nostrademons on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:54PM
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I'd imagine they also do some geolocation, so it's two users who bumped at the same time and same place. Dunno how accurate a location they can get, but unless it's a really crowded mixer, this should probably enough to uniquely ID people. It also suggests some interesting features, eg. the software could record when & where you met somebody, and could suggest other people who were present at the time.
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Re:Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Busi...
by blhack on Thursday July 09, 2009 @12:50AM
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That was my guess as well...geolocation, I mean.
A major problem, to me, would be that the GPS in your phone doesn't usually work so well when it is buried deep in a hotel conference center...
I'm sure that the app devs thought of this stuff, I just like trying to mentally work through it myself as well...
Re:Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Busi...
by a-priori on Thursday July 09, 2009 @02:20AM
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I think the time stamp is more important for matching devices. In fact, theoretically, with an accurate enough time stamp you wouldn't need a location to match the devices virtually all the time.
Another idea I had would be to tell the users to knock the devices together twice. That way, you would have another dimension for matching devices: the interval between the knocks should be the same, and that doesn't depend on the clocks being synchronized on the two devices.