The original concept was from a prototype I did for Mobile Application Design class before. It was about location-aware micro-blogging. Since twitter has been so much widely used as micro-blogging tool, now I want to change it a little bit.
So my idea is location-aware Twitter. What does it mean? It is a mobile application running on a GPS and internet enabled mobile phone. With it, as one walking on the street or taking a bus, he can discover the bits of lives from the people around him, as if people are carrying their micro-blog or "tweets" with them as they travel space in the city. Because you can discover other people's tweets only when you are physically close to them, both of you have a shared context at that time, thus some people might be particular interests of you. For example, you go to a live concert, the people there are more likely have a similar music taste with you.
To be more interestingly, I want to add the randomness factor into this concept. Nowadays, the world is all about "connecting", "always on"; you can always connect to someone this or that way no matter he is currently online or offline. You can send a offline IM message, you can leave a comment on someone's blog when he is not online, you can send a SMS to your friend when he turns off his phone. But I think the nature of live is randomness, it is the unexpected things make our lives especially interesting and exciting. So in terms of this project, I want people not being able to view one's tweets if that person walks out of your range(say a block away), and you can only "follow" a person when that person has come into your range 3 times. This for sure makes the "connecting" harder and seems going to the opposite direction of online world, but this is not a replacement of current social network tools, this is just to add something unexpected to your life.
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