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Re:Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Busi... by blhack on Thursday July 09, 2009 @12:50AM (#695243)
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 (#695340)
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.