Ambient Proximity New Hype On Location Social Media Sharing Services

From a social media user experience it is not always about where your connections are at a location exactly, but in relative terms how close a user is to another, and that is the relevant factor. 

Following recent years on providing a solution to always provide users exact coordinate check-ins in both Foursquare and Facebook platforms, the user experience is now trending away from this feature capability and focusing more on ambient proximity, which works by constantly and automatically sharing your approximate distance from your nearest connections contained in distance labelled groups. 

The process of ambient proximity permits a user to learn if one their connections is near enough to meet up, without necessarily having the stalking capability of knowing exact locations historically on maps. This new approach could be much more appealing to the wider social media daily users.

In this context, Foursquare’s new ambient proximity app Swarm was announced today to be released very soon. It creates a feed of a user connections into groups based on their present distance. Also launched recently was the Facebook Nearby Friends .

Feel free to add your comments to this post, thank you.

Popular posts from this blog

Skype Improves Functionality on User Experience Chat Syncing History

Image
For frequent users of Skype  the user experience on a smartphone and desktop are not always the same, particularly when following up on past chat messages as there was no functionality to be able to sync chat history between the two technology platforms.  As a result, users always felt this shortcoming was quite inconvenient, where chat messaging was not syncing between different devices and desktops despite being the same application logs.   Another working inconvenience for mobile users experience is that if a user has many contacts it can take quite a long time updating previous alerts and old chat messages to appear at the point where the user last logged in into the software application platform. Furthermore, it may take quite many minutes even before the application becomes operational from the latest updated content and communications, of which depending when a user last logged in all the history has to occur in a repetitive manner and in some cases the date a...
Read more

Email Spam Contact Management Tools

Image
These days, many people and businesses tend to receive many email however many do not use dedicated tools to help separate genuine personalised emails to general and annoying emails. In this post, we have selected tools to enable people and businesses achieve a clean and sustainable inbox for their incoming emails. These tools may not be appropriate to all businesses, depending on the nature of the business, however it is worth a consideration for those businesses that feel inundated with tons of daily unwanted emails. "Unsubscribe from unwanted email subscriptions, discover new ones and organize them all in one place. " Unroll   "Hide your address from spammers, companies, others." Sneakemail   "Hosted security and archiving services" Google Postini   "Remove all the spam (and other unwanted email)before it gets to your computer" MailWasher   Not free, but good provider. SpamHero ...
Read more

Gmail Email Traffic Connections Now Encrypted To Protect Its Users

Image
It was announced  today by Google  that is protecting its Gmail users by providing enhanced encryption. Gmail will “always use an encrypted HTTPS connection”  When a user connects to read its email, and subsequently transmits a new communication, it will now be always encrypted.  This security layer also ensures that even when traffic at a point of delivery and processing stages as it travels between Google servers and data communication highways will have better security from any possible third party attempts to read confidential data. As a positive consequence is that general users even whilst at different locations checking their emails, will be better protected regardless of their type of connected network such as a public location.  Thus leaving users without the need to worry about security settings or third party illegal attempts to intercept communications using technology such as public wifi. Feel free to add your comments to this post, thank you.
Read more

Google Friend Connec

Google Friend Connects with Twitter: After Yahoo! announced that they will soon implement Facebook Connect acr.. http://tinyurl.com/ylngnrj
Read more