Comments on: IDEA #10 – In-Person Social Networking – Event/Bar Mingling via Cell

By: » FourSquare API Ideas - By Steve Poland - web startup ideas and brainstorms, straight up! (formerly Techquila Shots)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:57:59 +0000

[...] Actually, the following post is basically what FourSquare became [feb 2007 I wrote this]: http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-10-in-person-social-networking-eventbar-mingling-via-cell/ and [...]

By: Techquila Shots » IDEA #39 - Vyous - Aggregated Event Photos/Videos (everyone’s views)

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:53:17 +0000

[...] example with happy hour: Similar to another idea I posted, there should be a place that I can see all photos / videos and comments from people, for [...]

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:52:54 +0000

MeetMoi – http://meetmoi.com – mobile matchmaker; send a text of your location, they send profiles around you, if you want to chat, they charge $0.99.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:59:47 +0000

Mobile social networking, via cell, taking off: Companies that offer mobile chat services include AirG - where users spend an average 59 minutes each day chatting -- on and off -- according to Fred Ghahramani, founder and CEO of AirG, - Power Chat and Upoc."

By: An interesting source of startup ideas at A Mogul To Be

An interesting source of startup ideas at A Mogul To Be — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:42:43 +0000

[...] So far most of his ideas are social media ideas, but that is what is hot now anyway. He has a couple that are related to cell phones which are very interesting. His idea #10 is a social networking idea using cell phones. Very cool! [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:52:45 +0000

Interesting. Any comments on any of the following?

http://www.flagr.com/
http://www.sixsense.com/
http://socialight.com/

Not exactly what you described but close.

By: Patrick Gardner

Patrick Gardner — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:07:26 +0000

This is a very cool idea.

Dunno why no one has done it yet.
Start a site, get a list of bars, clubs, events…
Have a way for users to say they are going to wherever on friday night before hand… Drum up a bit of publicity that way… Afterwards they can dump photos on their profile so you can search by people or by event…

the sign up thing would be where the advertising revenue is at. Also I guess the stats are worth something. Whats popular in one area might not be in another… I imagine all the liquor companies in particular looking to support whats on the up.

Two benefits for people: See what you’re friends are up to or meet new friends at whatever you were doing… Don’t think there is too many places that make the second all that easy. Myspace lets bands list shows… Sometimes you see someone comment about a show or whatever, but thats as far as it goes. No way to (neatly) do reviews, get an idea of who was there, where everyone else was or anything like that.

Good stuff.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:55:45 +0000

I’m guessing your based in North America? Becuase this business was done several times in every-which-way across Europe at least 3 years ago.
I know of two companies that gave it a pretty good shot in the UK – the outcome? a bit of success in niche bars and clubs but not scalable and certainly not mainstream.
A team in (germany I think) did a pretty good mobile community called Uboot which was pretty successful, although they had a pretty hard timemonetising it (may have got over that now)
Other than that, the money is in using the mobile phone to add interactivity to TV shows, 1-1 chat and ringtones/movies/wallpaper.

PS. I like the Picture Marketing concept Tim.

By: Tim Hoyt

Tim Hoyt — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:20:10 +0000

Great idea. The whole concept of converting offline populations into online communities is a powerful one. From a marketing standpoint, the value of a grouping of people that are not only in the same geographic area but also share some common interest is high. I like the integration of the Picture Marketing element, as onsite photos are a great driver of online participation.