Final Proposal

Project Title:
Twittercovery

What It Is:
A mobile application running on a GPS and Internet enabled mobile phone.

How It Works:
With this application Twittercovery launched on his cellphone while walking on the street or riding a bus, one can and only discover the tweets of people around him within a radius set by preference(eg. 100 feet). If a person has intersected with another person for 3 times, they are allowed to add friend with or "follow" each other.

Background:
Nowadays, the world is all about "be connected" and "always on". The Internet makes it possible and easy to have two people connected across the earth in the form of IM, blog, social network, SMS, voice message. This brings us a lot of convinience and usefulness. However, the physical proximity makes social connection more meaningful and motivative. Also, the randomness of discovering and meeting people adds more interestingness to our lives.

Reference:
Twitter API - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
Flashlite GPS capability - http://wiki.kunerilite.net/index.php?title=GPS_plugin

Development Plan:
First try to get KuneriLite's GPS plugin to work in Flashlite;
Second try to get Twitter API to work in Flashlite - to show "Friends" tweets in Flashlite;
Third...probably to work on database to associate user's Twitter account with GPS coordinates;
Fourth...