Sunday, April 10, 2005
Jambo Networks
"Jambo is peer-to-peer personal area matching technology, designed to let people directly network face-to-face with WiFi. Jambo uses PDAs, laptops, and smartphones, connecting them without intermediaries. You don't even need to be on the Internet to use it. It's easy. You just need Jambo, a mobile device and a desire to meet someone nearby. "
Link : Jambo Networks
Reminds me of when i read SmartMobs a while back. I love all this stuff - i am contstantly thinking about how businesses could use this kind of technology.
So I'm thinking conferences. Imagine being able to network with people in a lecture and match up with partners with "have" and "want". "Have Quantum Physics" - "Want Fourier Analysis" - would have got me out of a hole!
Things now come back to my age old question though. What would make someone pay for this?
In fact - would *I* pay for this and if so what for. Would I have to change something about me in order for it to be useful - in which can it will probably got next to my XBox and non-achoholic beer archives.
I really can see that it could be useful - i just can't see *how* it would be something i really can't do without.
... however.... let's take a step into the enterprise. I have LOTS of wants in there... someone to advice me on certain aspects of the business i am trying to create. Someone else willing to try it. Someone else still who may help extend it.
The main problem i have with a lot of these link-up technologies is how you know you *want* to be linked up. Most of the time you already know the people you want the information from - if you don't then you ask someone. In a project this is particularly true. What gets dynamically linked up in this situation?? However, could this cross projects - say project A needs someone to help this with an aspect of Project B.
As someone earlier this week said - there are lots of great technology, but very few make any money. I'd love to hear from anyone who has bought from Jambo and how they are benefiting.
Link : Jambo Networks
Reminds me of when i read SmartMobs a while back. I love all this stuff - i am contstantly thinking about how businesses could use this kind of technology.
So I'm thinking conferences. Imagine being able to network with people in a lecture and match up with partners with "have" and "want". "Have Quantum Physics" - "Want Fourier Analysis" - would have got me out of a hole!
Things now come back to my age old question though. What would make someone pay for this?
In fact - would *I* pay for this and if so what for. Would I have to change something about me in order for it to be useful - in which can it will probably got next to my XBox and non-achoholic beer archives.
I really can see that it could be useful - i just can't see *how* it would be something i really can't do without.
... however.... let's take a step into the enterprise. I have LOTS of wants in there... someone to advice me on certain aspects of the business i am trying to create. Someone else willing to try it. Someone else still who may help extend it.
The main problem i have with a lot of these link-up technologies is how you know you *want* to be linked up. Most of the time you already know the people you want the information from - if you don't then you ask someone. In a project this is particularly true. What gets dynamically linked up in this situation?? However, could this cross projects - say project A needs someone to help this with an aspect of Project B.
As someone earlier this week said - there are lots of great technology, but very few make any money. I'd love to hear from anyone who has bought from Jambo and how they are benefiting.
