1. will people be more likely to check in so they can be top?
2. will this encourage people to ‘fake’ check ins
3. will this encourage other ‘top’ people to meet other ‘top’ people, or will these people get more friend requests?
4. will this make any of the top places even more popular (or have the opposite effect because people want to be unique and not go to the mainstream places?)
5. will this make me check in less because it makes me look like an lush? ;) Probably not, I think the solution is that I need to stop documenting my evenings out with photos.

anyway, comment #5 above was because I'm the #6 user in seattle this month. Though I feel better though that Vaughn, Walter and Martha are bigger lushes than me.

Dodgeball is all about bringing people together... we'll tell your friends where you are, we'll let you know if friends-of-friends are nearby, but what about that cute girl or guy that you have nothing in common with? How are we going to hook you up?

Simple... crush lists. Whenever you check in, we'll check to see if any of your crushes are nearby. If so, we'll send a message to your phone letting you know that someone on your crush list (we won't tell you who!) is somewhere within 10 blocks (we won't tell you where!).

 

At the same time we'll ping your crush with a message letting them know where you are... and if they have a camera phone, we'll send your picture along, too. Who knows - if they think you're cute, maybe your crush will stop by.

 

Oh yeah, 5 crushes per person please. This isn't a brothel.

Hey there - someone has a crush on you. (Though we can't tell you who.)

I've been at etech for the last couple of days listening to some pretty cool talks and meeting some interesting people in the industry. That's workie talk so I'll save that for the work blog for another day.

The e-tech experience itself has been really interesting. It's a huge contrast from the audience at the last industry related event that I went to a couple of weeks ago. E-tech has literally been like summer camp. But geekier. Getting up super early and attending all day sessions, learning about technology and playing nice with the other kids, and then evenings at a big table and then the campfire (Literally, the beach bar at the W). Little cliques forming here and there, hangers-on (the dude), trying to lose the hangers-on (we're taking a cab. and there is no room for you), event coordination over SMS, torres getting shot by a girl with a marshmallow gun. All in all, a great learning experience and a good opportunity to meet a ton of people - both from other parts of microsoft and other companies.

I'm glad to be home though - living in a hotel really isn't all that fun, even if it is the w (aka Jane's dream come true)

I'm chillin' in San Diego at the O'Reilly emerging technology conference for the next couple of days. It's a pretty interesting conference (much better than the one me and allison went to in SF).  There are some definitely interesting characters here - interesting to talk to and hear their opinions, and then interesting as in 'what the?!'. There is a flikr feed for photos at the conference - though it doesn't encapsulate some of the tags that Jane and I might choose for some of the people we have seen/met here so far.

I have finally decided to start posting to my work space. I definitely think it's going to be a challenge for me to post to that space regularly since I tend to not blog about work-type things.

I'll still continue to post here on a regular basis because I KNOW (haha) you all just love to hear about my oh-so-exciting life.

This is kind of sick but oddly amusing - Save Toby. I should have done the same for Shavey Davey.