Just finished reading MG Siegler's Location’s Social Paradox

Some first reactions here. More to come...

Event-Based Following

First, there are some people that I would like to follow some of the time, like if we’re all in a different city at a conference together.

On DokoDare, we created Events for this, so that you can follow an event, but you don't have to follow everybody - you even don't have to follow anybody - at the conference. Here is an illustration:



And even if you would follow everybody during the event, you can - by going on the web, easily unfollow them afterwards (see Follow / Remove under the QR Code).

One other advantage of this is, that you can share relevant information for a special occasion. In the case of the conference this might be exchanging your contact information.

Here is a screenshot from the iPhone how my ID would look like for a conference attendee:



For somebody who isn't an attendee however, the business contact information would never appear (see screenshot):




Checkin / Following

We do not annouce checkins (for the people you follow) by themselves. As we think, that checkin is the one thing that will create a lot of noise when used extensively. We figured that only, when you write, this is relevant to the user and then it will appear under the ME Tab/Following also indicating the place from where it was written.


To be continued...