Archive for February, 2009
social studies..
If you’re anything like me, you’re curious ’bout what’s going on in the world –just not in the typical media type of way.
I prefer taking little peeks into people’s lives and more often than not, injecting a little something into their daily routine.
Maybe it’s me trying to put my mark out there on the world somehow( …i know part of it stems from watching soap opera’s with my mom on a daily basis (damn you ‘All My Children’!) In any case, I loooooove getting to know new people.
So, it’s been a personal mission of mine to create the almighty-meeting-people app. I have, in fact, already made the rules and such for what the app basically does..geez.. been thinkin’ bout this thing even before the iphone was a thought in people’s minds; however, it seems that there are many like minded people out there who’re far more advanced in programming than I.
I’ve decided for now that while i work on my programming prowess, I’ll post ’bout some of the more interesting social networking apps i’ve seen and have been using in the past month or so. As a forewarning, to get the most out of these apps it’s best to have an iphone for this (sorry ipod touch users).
Out of all three apps I’m posting ’bout today, this one is my least favorite. Now, I’m not saying it sucks the donkey but it’s really more for people who’re already friends and want to kinda keep tabs on each other. Me, personally, if I wanna get a hold of my friends that I really want to hang out with, I’ll just call them or text them. I also live in a small town. This would be super duper handy for bigger towns where there’s lots of places to go and streets to get lost in. As an afterthought they added a new feature which allows you to kinda find people in your general area… and if you find someone of interest it allows you to email them and start a conversation. Obviously, this is the part i’m interested in. Kinda annoying that it has to close the app to open up the mail client..but it is handy that you can reply to the email sent to you directly from the mail client instead of having to log back into the app. They’ve got some work to do to catch up to the other two in that department..but it is really good for what it does.
This one is dead simple to use and really damn close to what I had in mind as far as meeting new random people ^_^ . Simply put, it narrows it down to however near you want the search to go and finds people within that search radius. If you wanna message someone you simply go to their profile and msg away.. One of the neater features is the “new” tab… this shows the latest entries who’ve just made accounts.. this is great ‘cuz frankly, the number of iphone users in this small town who use this app are few and far between. Obviously, the downside to this is that if you ever plan of seeing any of the people you meet on here, chances are they’re not gonna be anywhere near you unless of course, they happen to fall in the “near” tab. Unlike loopt, you can message directly from within the client.. but if you ever want to be notified of any messages you have, you’ll have to log into the app ‘cuz it, for some reason, doesn’t support email or text msging as a notifier (even though it asks you for your email so that it can notify you.. weird.)
brightkite
What can I say ’bout this one… ummm.. it friggin’ rules! For starters, it’s got the whole integrated everything. Wanna take a picture and post it? Check. Wanna message someone from within the client? Check. Wanna get notified vie e-mail or SMS if you got an update or msg from someone? Check. Wanna see who’s in the area or from any distance? Check. I’d go so far as to say that is this the ultimate micro blogging social awesomeneering app i’ve come across. These guys did their homework and have really come through with something I find myself using everyd–every second of the day LOL >_< i think i’ve said enough.
oh btw, today is national BKBD. muh new found friend, Charlize, posted a random motivational picture involving boobs and started a wonderful day of boob looking and randomness amongst fellow brightkiters. happy brightkite boob day, everyone!
man i’m hungry as balls. hope this post was rather informative. i’m off to find something tasty to eat. cheers!