27 June 2008

NrMe (Near Me)

Here’s an interesting take on the confluence of geolocation and Twitter (how much more fashionable can you get?): the messages you post on the service are received by everyone in a 500-yard radius around you. You don’t follow people or anything, you just see what people around you have to say or ask — which, now that I think about it, kinda boils down to a chat window in an MMO.

I think the stupid name and the iPhone-centricness (there are other geolocating phones, you know) of nrme aren’t going to help much, but I can’t wait for other people to steal that idea and improve on it. If you can mark the local gold farmers as spam.