{"id":49343,"date":"2015-03-11T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=49343"},"modified":"2015-03-16T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:49:01","slug":"wow-do-these-new-apps-point-to-a-major-new-door-opening-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/03\/11\/wow-do-these-new-apps-point-to-a-major-new-door-opening-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Do these new apps point to a major, new, door-opening concept?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

From DSC:<\/em>
\n<\/span>Wow! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The two apps listed below could represent a new, major, door-opening concept! Such a concept could usher in an era that provides many new affordances — affordances made possible by the presence of beacon-related technologies<\/strong> (or similar machine-to-machine communications).\u00a0 If this is\/becomes the case, we should expect to see a whole new wave of this kind of application, especially as wearables gain traction.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

This startup is using iBeacon to make In Real Life (IRL) networking more efficient<\/a><\/strong> — from technical.ly by Brady Dale
\n<\/span><\/span>A pair of Amazon and Fab.com alums are working on a new way to answer the age-old question:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWho should I meet here and are they relevant to my background?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"MeetTheRightPeopleViaLINK-March2015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all been frustrated by the notion of networking. You walk into a meetup full of people you don\u2019t know, but you do know something about them. Say, for example, it\u2019s a meetup of developers. You know that lots of people there are devs, but what kind? And just because it\u2019s an Android devs meetup, for example, that doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s what they all actually do. It also doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t a bunch of other people circulating who are simply trying to network but aren\u2019t actually developers.<\/p>\n

The best you can do is start walking up to people and asking\u00a0\u2014\u00a0but often\u00a0your pick is a miss. If you have an objective when you go networking, how can you improve your chances of finding the people you want to find? One startup that\u2019s working on a solution is Surf Labs<\/strong><\/a>. The new, two-person company, cofounded by Amazon<\/strong> and Fab.com<\/strong> alums, has released two iOS products that could make it more likely that you will find the person you are looking for.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Surf Labs\u2019\u00a0first product is called LiNK<\/a><\/strong>…and their second product is called LiNK Spaces.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"LINKSpaces-March2015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"MCxLiNK<\/a>
\nA rendering of how a LiNK Spaces dashboard could work in a coworking space.
\n(Image courtesy of Surf Labs)<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Addendum on 3\/16\/15:<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Beacons-at-2015-SXSW\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From DSC: Wow! The two apps listed below could represent a new, major, door-opening concept! Such a concept could usher in an era that provides many new affordances — affordances made possible by the presence of beacon-related technologies (or similar machine-to-machine communications).\u00a0 If this is\/becomes the case, we should expect to see a whole new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,174,72,237,419,180,166,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-career-development","category-daniel-s-christian","category-entrepreneurship","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-social-learning-networks","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49343"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49430,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions\/49430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}