iPhone?! Have you tried it?
I saw an article and downloaded it last night. Appears to work over wifi or without, so there is someone to chat with (since pretty much everybody has a data signal that is using it). They also have two channels to choose from: "Everybody" and "Nearby". Everybody is just a meaningless fast moving stream of randoms talking in such volume that you can't have a convoy, while selecting "Nearby" just says "one person chatting", which is me, since there is nobody talking in the stream. Clever approach though, in both having a 'global' channel and the ability to work via traditional wifi and cellular signal as a default. This lets people actually talk to each other right off the bat and use the app not matter where they are, -even if they are just checking it out for fun.
No. I"ll try it today. Kdwag and I got ourselves some hacked iBeacons. There are some really interesting things iPhones are doing. Bluetooth low energy is going to have insane impact on how we communicate and are tracked.
Looks like Android has BLE for 4.3+. I wonder if they could talk to each other? I knew whenever BLE got widespread support that what we were trying to do with TinCan would be much easier. I just didn't expect it to be supported this quickly. Last summer, all forums were expecting wider, stable support of BLE in maybe early 2015. I just found out about iBeacons, pushing notifs, and use of BLE yesterday. I asked about Tin-Can but then I hit my knee really hard on the corner of my file cabinet and everyone laughed at me and the conversation went no where. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth-le.html http://www.knowyourmobile.com/apple/apple-iphone-5s/21276/ibeacon-apples-nfc-alternative-explained