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Giving virtual goods physical features: Dokobots

Dokobots is a new iphone geogame that is a real life pokemon/treasure hunt. What makes this game's technology unique is it adds a virtual layer to the real world by forcing players to walk to physical locations to collect robots. It's built on top of Google Maps. These robots have physical characteristics, and can be dropped off where the user chooses or sent on flights all over the world for...

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Re:Rate My Startup: Hangchillparty.com on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:26PM (#1541993)
Aspurd, I remember those time in high school too (I'm 21). A huge part of Hcp is flipping "not doing jackshit" into "I'm down to have a good time", which means the same thing, but is less desparate. Today, I notice many of my friends are on facebook on weekend nights because online social norms have changed a ton the last few years, and I'm sure they wish they knew a few more social options. Good question, it's one we get a lot.
Re:Rate My Startup: Hangchillparty.com on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:23PM (#1541978)
Thank you, we've been so busy with things, so we'll try to get it soon.
Re:Rate My Startup: Hangchillparty.com on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:22PM (#1541977)
Interesting. It looks like we need to provide more info on our login page. What you stated is how it works. A user can choose to be emailed or texted when a friend has signaled a green or yellow. You can then join these signals within hangchillparty, which allows for the real-time evite aspect you are talking about.
Re:Rate My Startup: Hangchillparty.com on Thursday July 22, 2010 @10:40PM (#1540187)
Thanks Petalpete. I appreciate your feedback. I'm curious, purely for feedback sake, how old are you? We're noticing interesting differences in feedback depending on age. We will continue gathering info and make the necessary changes.

Rate My Startup: Hangchillparty.com

Hangchillparty answers who’s free to hang out. Right now. It's Twitter for hanging out.When people want to hang out in the immediate future, they text or call friends. This is inefficient since you can only personally contact one person at a time, and you must then wait for a response. You don’t know who won’t respond or is unavailable. Social networking sites don’t alert you when a friend...

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Re:Mark Suster: Don't take the little things for granted. on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @12:57PM (#1535738)
Tough to take a step back when all you do is work day and night. This type of post carries extra weight when it's from a man as busy as Mark Suster.
Re:Fleeting Youth, Fading Creativity in Science on Thursday February 25, 2010 @12:06AM (#1150054)
Wow. I agree.

I'm a 21 year old that goes to your regular, univy league college, the University of San Francisco. I would say drive, and the willingness to dream (and take risks) is almost dead among your average Americans who HAVE the skill and talent to develop science and technology.

I've had discussions with my co-Founder about this (we're applying for YC this summer). We believe the American dream has morphed. Everyone is scared in our generation. We're scared of not getting jobs, of not living the cushy lives we thought would be handed to us as kids.

Now, our generation is more than happy to settle for a shitty internship, to settle for ok, to settle for "getting by". It's because we're scared. Scared of what our future holds for us (which no one really knows haha).

Of course, there are exceptions, but I'm speaking about the high school and college segment as a whole. These are my opinions from what I see in talented people I know.

Re:Oakland Cafe Owner's Banning Laptop Experiment on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @11:50PM (#1150028)
Interesting point. I agree with you in that newspapers take away from interaction.

Laptops, though, can consume people in so many different ways, which makes it harder to approach a conversation with someone. You never know if someone is checking email, doing work, or just social masturbating on Facebook. There is a thicker "invisible social wall" when trying to approach someone with a laptop because you don't want to bother something important, so very few people even try to start a conversation.

When someone's reading a paper, you know they are interested in the day's current news, which makes an easy conversation opener. You know they aren't busy doing their taxes or writing a paper.