I don't mean to sound like the tinfoil hat wearer I am, but law enforcement already asks for, and receives, cell phone location data from your phone company. I saw a talk about a year ago where someone discussed this. He had the amusing anecdote that it's gotten to the point that if the data shows you've left your phone at home, then the prosecutor tries to use this as evidence that you were planning something evil. (I'll have to see if I can follow up with him.)
For a more documented approach, here's some articles on recent rulings about cell phone location data. The key issue is whether law enforcement needs probable cause and a warrant to ask for such data: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051222-5823.html
ffmpeg would do the conversion job. I rhetorically wonder what you guys actually use for conversions at jumpcut? I'm sure it's NDA.... if I were to write a poorman's jumpcut through CGI, I'd throw everything through ffmpeg though.
dodgeball (and Groovr, apparently) don't appeal to me, somehow. And yet, I see where I would use them if they hit that critical-mass point.
I will have to admit that I have a certain thing for technology aiding (not replacing, mind) real-life social networks. Because those are the ones that matter. Social networking sites are all well and good, but they attempt to merely project the idea of interpersonal-relations into a digital media. The best points of these sites (esp. Facebook) is when they act correspondingly in the real world.
Bah, I dunno. Cool stuff to look forward to though, if not in this exact form.
Ya, it's nda, but it turns out that whatever we use does support the 3gp format. I was just having trouble uploading.
I don't think that these networks are simply reflections of existing relationships. They also create and soldify relationships. Because we are given more information about each person, our perception of that person and our interaction with him changes. Without facebook, for example, I wouldn't have known that you have an interest in french. I agree, though, that they are not a substitute for physical interaction.
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For a more documented approach, here's some articles on recent rulings about cell phone location data. The key issue is whether law enforcement needs probable cause and a warrant to ask for such data:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051222-5823.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/cat_cell_tracking.php
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dodgeball (and Groovr, apparently) don't appeal to me, somehow. And yet, I see where I would use them if they hit that critical-mass point.
I will have to admit that I have a certain thing for technology aiding (not replacing, mind) real-life social networks. Because those are the ones that matter. Social networking sites are all well and good, but they attempt to merely project the idea of interpersonal-relations into a digital media. The best points of these sites (esp. Facebook) is when they act correspondingly in the real world.
Bah, I dunno. Cool stuff to look forward to though, if not in this exact form.
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I don't think that these networks are simply reflections of existing relationships. They also create and soldify relationships. Because we are given more information about each person, our perception of that person and our interaction with him changes. Without facebook, for example, I wouldn't have known that you have an interest in french. I agree, though, that they are not a substitute for physical interaction.
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