Help Test a New Wireless Application!
Hi,
My name is Sam Kinsley and I am a student at the University of Plymouth. I have developed an application to be used on wi-fi enabled computers that promotes social networking.
I would really like to test this application with a group of willing volunteers. I am being assessed in three weeks time and really need to do this some time this week or next week. Please help!
Some background:
"The ‘killer-apps’ of tomorrows mobile infocom industry won’t be hardware devices or software programs but social practices."
(H. Rheingold, Smart Mobs)
TalkingPoint is a small application that runs in the background on laptops that searches for other users running the application. Once found the application gauges whether or not the owner of the other device is of interest to the owner of its own device, using keywords and arbitrary profiles. Participation would be entirely voluntary and require the user to deliberately set such software ‘active’.
I hope TalkingPoint will allow me to explore the new ‘social practices’ that Howard Rheingold talks about it Smart Mobs.
I have a website at: http://www.samkinsley.com/
The application website is here: http://www.talking.org.uk/
I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me, ideally I would like a group of users to experiment with the application on evening this week, or early next week.
Many thanks
Sam Kinsley