Slides from LocNav USA 2011
Michael Metcalf, Product Management Social & Location, Yahoo!
Spatial Networking: Communicate and Collaborate with People in your Immediate Proximity
Gain Insight into the current spatial networking landscape, and enable public and private real-time communication and collaboration between strangers and friends
Uncover hidden interest profiles from people nearby, and address the challenges that are unique to spatial networking
Learn about the future technologies that will accelerate proximity-based interactions
Discover new commercial opportunities when using in proximity as a filter for creating a social network
17. Hungry
Open now
Deal offered
Good for groups
Nice day & they have patio
Gluten-free pastries
Famous chef mentioned it
Reminds of study abroad Paris
Singles come here
Friends are here
Child friendly
Gay friendly
22. Spatial Annotations
Conference notes
Audio note from
protest
There’s a roof garden
here. Take elevator
to 12th floor.
Photos from a
Video of the performance celebrity wedding
artist performing a remarkable
stunt on this bridge…
Live
clip I
recorded at
the TV on
the Radio
concert here
last week…
Grabthar
23. Message Party
View.io
Blockboard
Spatial Annotations
Vidcinity SquawkMe
43. Where are the developers?
iOS Android Blackberry Windows Ovi
BuzzMob x x
LikeaLittle x
Liveshare x x
LoKast x
Unsocial x x x
Yobongo x
44. Android & iOS Users
200 7%
11%
20%
67
150
Millions of Users in North America
63
40%
57
50
100 92%
39
126
176% 117
50 104
24 85
57
27
0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Android Apple iOS
Year Over Year User Growth % Source: Strategy Analytics
45. New User Behavior: 40% is Largest YOY
Increase in Users in Next 4 Years
Critical Mass: iOS & Android Will Reach
About Half of Adults in North America
2012
46. But by August 2011…
Android 16% Only 1 in 4 Americans
iPhone 10% are on these platforms
Feature
Phones 64%
Blackberry
7%
Microsoft 2% August 2011 Source: Comscore
51. Percent of Global Adult Population Who
Own a Smartphone
47%
50%
40%
40%
32%
30%
21%
20% 15%
10%
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Adults over age 15, assuming that smartphones are replaced every 2-2.5 years
Sources: IDF, Gartner, McKinsey, Yahoo! Research
Convergence of smartphone adoption means that the internet – the web – is much closer to the physical worldConnect people and devicesAd hoc mesh networksPeer-to-PeerNFCBumpFind People via Devices, do the mathGeolocation up to server. Calculate. Create Rules.Other inputs:Sound (Color)BluetoothEnhanced IP [unversities, etc.]ZuluTIme: [store based add ons to wifi routers]NFCNow, Yong Wang, a computer scientist at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have used businesses and universities as landmarks to achieve much higher accuracy.These organisations often host their websites on servers kept on their premises, meaning the servers' IP addresses are tied to their physical location. Wang's team used Google Maps to find both the web and physical addresses of such organisations, providing them with around 76,000 landmarks. By comparison, most other geolocation methods only use a few hundred landmarks specifically set up for the purpose.
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For those who grew up before MP3s, we may miss the days of browsing the stacks… every so often you would find something unexpected in the used bin - a rare Japanese import of a Pixies single with a B-side you’d never heard. SerendipityNow you go to itunes or amazon. It’s less fun. What about bar bets about stupid shit? Wikipedia solves itOne of the last frontiers of serendipity is being out in the wild, running into people, things, events. Like everything else, the signals are growingRunning into a fellow Iowan in Albania. Random. No longer