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Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by AndresFabris

AndresFabris — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:53:57 +0000

@flapic Check out http://www.traxo.com, it’s basically a Mint.com for travel — it auto imports all of your trips automatically. It also lets you import your trip history – either mannually, or it actually fetches them directly from the travel accounts you connect. It supports Foursquare check-ins, you can auto-upload your Tripit trips… it even calculates your overall travel score (a la Klout), let’s you see where you rank via leaderboards, higher scores let you win free travel perks — like free airfare, luggage, car rentals, etc…

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by qthrul

qthrul — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:34:37 +0000

@flapic I always thought Dopplr had a gorgeous UI/UX and the end of year charting was outstanding. I’ve moved to @TripIt since I use @Concur for work travel a lot more now. I use @Plancast the same way as you oddly enough.

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by Anthony Barba

Anthony Barba — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:49:37 +0000

@flapic I totally forgot about “on FB where you can only invite friends.” and they just removed the Friends Event link on FB and added suggested event… which is BS because they are suggesting events 3000 miles away. I am very excited about the space which is why I’m soaking up all the feedback about how to make plancast better for real users. Thank you for your insight.

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by flapic

flapic — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:22:49 +0000

@Anthony Barba I loved Dopplr, and still use it even though I expect Nokia to shut it down one day or another. Still, alternatives don’t let me import my travel history and that makes harder to leave it. Worldmate seems a good alternative at the moment.

About Plancast, I usually enter my events there, including those that I indipendently participate in my city. It’s easy to share them on the social networks and have people join them, more than on FB where you can only invite friends. There are other good services, like Twtvite.com, but Plancast adds several features that make it the best around. If more people were on it, I am sure it could have been a great tool for “normal” events discovery in every city!

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by Anthony Barba

Anthony Barba — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:44:37 +0000

@flapic I seems that plancast works great for people who go to events like DLD, WMC, Etc. but did it ever work for casual twitter, facebook and instagram users. Dopplr was bought by Nokia before it could blossom. As someone in this space for the past 3 months I’m glad we have a map of possible land-minds, but scary non-the-less.

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by qthrul

qthrul — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:50:24 +0000

@Anthony Barba Agreed!

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by qthrul

qthrul — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:45:30 +0000

@flapic the automatic merge tool sounds good!

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by flapic

flapic — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:51:12 +0000

Quote. I am getting ready to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, and Plancast is being a great source for networking events during the fair week. I also use it a lot, and while it can definitely be improved, I don’t think it misses much. The (non official) Android app is not bad at all. Only thing: due to the automatic import from multiple platforms there are a lot of duplicate events; merge can be suggested by users, but Mark already told me a faster and automatic merge tool is on work.

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by Anthony Barba

Anthony Barba — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:38:31 +0000

or perhaps the reverse, streaming others schedules/calendars into a rich mobile app. I believe this is a huge space / opportunity that someone is eventually going to get right like Facebook did to Friendster.

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by qthrul

qthrul — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:17:57 +0000

@Anthony Barba thanks for distilling that — it is about mobile increasingly. I used Plancast app on my iPhone but not as much as the rich web user interface — and usually on my laptop. I am also a user of TripIt and use that for mobile so perhaps having an easily included plancast stream in other apps that are being used more often is another consideration.

Comment on Plancast: Serendipity as a Service by Anthony Barba

Anthony Barba — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:46:42 +0000

Forgoing the wisdom of the masses, as a product, what was the biggest thing lack in plancast for you as a power user? For me it was mobile. I believe that’s where the serendipity lives.

Comment on Two Weeks Without Public Social Media by qthrul

qthrul — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:12:48 +0000

@SecureGirl Looking forward to it :)

Comment on Two Weeks Without Public Social Media by SecureGirl

SecureGirl — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:21:44 +0000

GREAT idea. We’ll see lots of interesting and valuable content from you for sure, including, I hope, some detailed product requirements :) See you on Quad and ONE EMC!

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Comment on Too Much Text – SWSW 2009 by The Real Paul Jones » Jay Cuthrell on Too Much Text at SXSW2009 #noemail

The Real Paul Jones » Jay Cuthrell on Too Much Text at SXSW2009 #noemail — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:40:12 +0000

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Comment on Enhancement and Innovation by qthrul

qthrul — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:37:57 +0000

@Charlotte74 completely agree — I found some old folders containing the printouts that I kept with me when I would travel: maps, tickets, reservations confirmations, etc… etc…

Comment on Enhancement and Innovation by Charlotte74

Charlotte74 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:22:23 +0000

It surely is exciting times. I love all the tech stuff and the cloud has been great for me. I travel a lot and my business/life style couldn’t have worked even 10 years ago.

Comment on My First 300 Days by qthrul

qthrul — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:01:15 +0000

@stevie_chambers Thanks man!

Comment on My First 300 Days by stevie_chambers

stevie_chambers — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:55:18 +0000

glad you are on my team, dude, and not working for the competition. game. on. qthrul

Comment on Kids and Robots by qthrul

qthrul — Sun, 08 May 2011 19:31:50 +0000

A great example of promoting women in engineering and technology