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At least 50 web sites, including New Scientist, Yahoo India, Netscape, Gizmodo and IEEE have sprung up discussing the Swarm. This has lead to bloggers testing out the interactive web version and reporting back on its social and cultural usability. In addition the Swarm has featured on the New Inventors as well as main stream news media sources.
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New Scientist - Cell Phone Tells You What Mode You Are In 25 December, 2006
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Sneaking off work early for Friday afternoon drinks will soon be made easier by a mobile phone system that will tell your boss you're still at work while letting your friends know you're on your way. |
Experience Mobility - A Swarm of Activity
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Lets talk about “the social” but in a slightly different way than you think... Hopefully it (the Swarm) will blend social networks allowing interactions when they are most appropriate. |
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Virtual Worlds - Mood Classification for Mobile Phones
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A new mobile phone service being developed in Australia, uses ‘mood setting icons’ broadcast by your phone, to give people advance warning of whether or not now is a good time to contact you. |
Netscape - Gadgets and Tech - Cellphone tells the world what mode you're in
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Swarm enables people to put contacts in different groups, such as "work" or "friend", allowing different information to be given to each. |
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Yahoo India - A cell phone system that shows you are at work while being at a party!
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It just became easier to beguile your already gullible boss, for now you can slink off for an afternoon drink or go on a shopping spree, and a new mobile phone system will tell him/her that you're still at work. |
Tech It Easy - The Swarm: A software for mobile phones soon to revolutionize relationships between people
People relationships have been evolving quite rapidly recently. If the e-mail has, despite its many flaws, changed the way people communicate, other disruptive new uses like online dating, social networking (professional: LinkedIn; friends on FaceBook; hobbies, etc.), instant messengers (allowing you to let people know whether you’re available or not and leave small notes to the attention of your contacts) have sort of opened new paths to getting to know new people, or helping you keep in touch with people you already know. In this perspective, here’s something new, both a device and a software.
Before we get going, many thanks to Steve D. (whom you’ll hear more about quite soon...) for telling me about this amazing innovation developed by the Smart Internet Technology research group - an Australian digital media think tank, and a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology named Christine Satchell.
The Swarm, that’s the name of a software (see picture on the right side of your screen), basically allows you to tell your contacts what you’re doing (eg. “In a meeting”; or “I’m driving, not so convenient to pick up the phone”), whether you’re available (”I’m sunbathing on the beach so call back tonight please”) and when you’ll be available (”Free on Saturday night”). You may also separate your professional and private contacts, interface easily the software with your regular digital address book, etc. The software is REALLY EASY to use, and will probably adapt perfectly to the new “finger-driven phones” trend set by Apple and its iPhone. If you don’t believe me and feel like judging by yourself, check out the interactive demo of Swarm over here.
Responses from Users:
Waoo. That’s a great device; and, yet, not revolutionary. It just combines two things: the new phone mobility (with wi- fi, pocket explorer, wi-max etc) and the social trends (Facebook indeed asks you to set a status to let your “buddies” what you are up to).
JD: The swarm guys were really able to analyze the two trends and to get the most of it. So what it tells us is that: by screening (smartly) the new technological innovations, you might come up with interesting ideas.
I am just wondering: are they developing just the software (that could be installed on any device) or are they actually developing the hardware as well in partnership with a phone maker? (i could not figure that out in the link that you mention).
Comment by Jedi — January 23, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Not intrinsically revolutionary, probably, but revolutionary in a way that the Swarm shows the way the mobile industry is heading towards.
To answer your question - in the third link (SmartMobs), you’ll come across these words: “RMIT University lecturer Christine Satchell is in the midst of commercializing her mobile phone prototype, known as The Swarm.” But business- wise
, my guess is that the software is going to be available to all mobile phone manufacturers at a price yet to be determined.
Before we get going, many thanks to Steve D. (whom you’ll hear more about quite soon...) for telling me about this amazing innovation developed by the Smart Internet Technology research group - an Australian digital media think tank, and a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology named Christine Satchell.
The Swarm, that’s the name of a software (see picture on the right side of your screen), basically allows you to tell your contacts what you’re doing (eg. “In a meeting”; or “I’m driving, not so convenient to pick up the phone”), whether you’re available (”I’m sunbathing on the beach so call back tonight please”) and when you’ll be available (”Free on Saturday night”). You may also separate your professional and private contacts, interface easily the software with your regular digital address book, etc. The software is REALLY EASY to use, and will probably adapt perfectly to the new “finger-driven phones” trend set by Apple and its iPhone. If you don’t believe me and feel like judging by yourself, check out the interactive demo of Swarm over here.
Responses from Users:
Waoo. That’s a great device; and, yet, not revolutionary. It just combines two things: the new phone mobility (with wi- fi, pocket explorer, wi-max etc) and the social trends (Facebook indeed asks you to set a status to let your “buddies” what you are up to).
JD: The swarm guys were really able to analyze the two trends and to get the most of it. So what it tells us is that: by screening (smartly) the new technological innovations, you might come up with interesting ideas.
I am just wondering: are they developing just the software (that could be installed on any device) or are they actually developing the hardware as well in partnership with a phone maker? (i could not figure that out in the link that you mention).
Comment by Jedi — January 23, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Not intrinsically revolutionary, probably, but revolutionary in a way that the Swarm shows the way the mobile industry is heading towards.
To answer your question - in the third link (SmartMobs), you’ll come across these words: “RMIT University lecturer Christine Satchell is in the midst of commercializing her mobile phone prototype, known as The Swarm.” But business- wise
, my guess is that the software is going to be available to all mobile phone manufacturers at a price yet to be determined.
Plusmo - Swarm System tells Users Where There Friends Are
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Judges at the recent Under the Radar conference in Silicon Valley chose Plusmo as the winner of its “Mobilize” category. The conference explores hot new companies that are “true innovators fueling an explosion of consumer-created content, thriving user communities, and new business opportunities,” according to the organizers. The Mobilize category looks at innovation in making content mobile. Plusmo was chosen by judges from Motorola, Verizon and Yahoo in a session moderated by c|net’s Rafe Needleman. Plusmo’s three featured mobile technologies (shown clockwise from the bottom are the LG “TV Phone”, Nokia and VISA’s “Mobile Wallet” and The Swarm “Mobile Based Social Networking System”. |
