M-blog or Bluetooth Blogging: another layer of personality
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People have a need to express themselves to their immediate surroundings. That is why people have different styles. It says to others: “I believe in this or that”. It is to express their value systems, social class, etc. It is their identity. For example someone wearing a Gucci suit says something different than someone wearing a t-shirt that spells, say, “Fight the Power!”.
Here’s a new idea using Bluetooth to publish personal messages, thoughts or other otherwise express people’s identity not on a Web site, but to the user’s immediate surroundings. In some way this provides another layer for the identity, beyond the immediate appearance. The concept is simple and very possible to implement with today’s technology. Users would simply write their thought-of-the-day, picture or other message on their mobile device, enable its transmission and anyone within range could pick it up.
What is interesting with this is that it is fundamentally different than Weblogs in the sense that Mobile Bluetooth Logs (m-blogs) are ephemeral, only available for a short time and while the sender is nearby. And they can be somewhat anonymous. The usage scenarios are endless, but it could make long daily commuting by train for example more interesting.
| by: David Jacques licence: Creative Commons tags: mobile bluetooth blogging phone concept interaction |
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Great simple idea, should exist already. “Someone on the train farted”!
It would also be great if the messege could be left in the area that it was posted, so users can cycle through today’s mblog posts and see what they missed. I really like this idea, but my only concerns are:
1) phone compatitability. It would be extremely hard, time consuming, and maybe even expensive to design the program for every cell phone OS. And most companies use multiple OSes for the various phone serieses
2) Battery. Bluetooth takes up quite a bit of battery life, so I don’t know if many people would like to keep it on.
Actually it’s a simple feature, and Bluetooth already supports the simple protocols necessary to exchange text and images. Not “extremely hard, time consuming”. Who said phone features are easy to develop?
“Let’s NOT design MP3-playing function, it’s HARD to design!!!!”
For the battery: It’s not broadcasting the m-blog in the air constantly. The idea is to have that feature only use the device identification to say a m-blog is available. Other devices can search and pick it up. That’s in the Bluetooth standards. For example your mobile phone says it has networking capability, a name, etc.
it is perfect for advertising purposes! [spam]
besides that, it is a great idea.
Let’s hope if this such a protocol comes out we won’t have advertising companies spam us. Maybe it’s better to be a “pull” model. Devices with a message just announce their availability, then you pull it. Reduce chances of being pushed spam…
awesome way for shy people to meet one another