Friday, June 27. 2008

Nrme: Geofencing for messages

TechCrunch looks at Nrme, a soon to be released only for the iPhone app. The big deal? You only received messages from those within 9 blocks (no idea how that's determined). There's no following like Twitter and idea is to get information about what's in walking distance in a city say, or in a constrained environment like a concert venue or large conference center (think about San Deigo's for example...)

Again I note, this is a feature I'd like to have with my messaging tool of choice. I don't want a special app to provide that feature. I don't expect this to take off, rather, I expect other providers or third party developers to add in this same sort of tool.

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i'm guessing the 9 blocks is just translated on an avg block size distance conversion. they just say '9 blocks' instead of '1500 feet' or '1/2 miles' or whatever because it sounds more 'urban'.

#1 Peter on 2008-06-27 12:17 (Reply)

Interesting concept - we agree though... being able to do this with any messenger would be much better.

#2 Brick Marketing Local (Link) on 2008-06-27 12:35 (Reply)

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