footprint

Abstract

footprint, the mobile app, is a utility app designed for creating and uploading geocached media messages. (Geocaching meets Instagram?) A message can be in plain text, audio, photo or video format.

Upon creating a message, a user can choose:

permitted users (scope), where the message can be marked for a specific friend, group of friends, all followers, public, or other (emails not necessarily of friends in the system)
discoverable-only or auto-publish, discoverable-only meaning one would have to unlock the message by being near it, auto-publish being the message is automatically available to be viewed from any location
active or passive, where the message is broadcasted for permitted users to know of (sends push notification to target friend?) or kept completely private (and hence, serendipitous?)

In addition to creating messages, a user can consume messages that they've uncovered or are public. Alternate ways of processing this data include:

push notifications, exclaiming that a message has been uncovered based on location
map explore view, a local map view that shows messages (locked and unlocked) along with avatars
activity feed / inbox, where activity such as messages that have been broadcast to the user or that have been recently unlocked by the user
public messages feed, where user can access public messages based on location, rating, category, etc.

Remaining questions

Can messages be grouped or ordered? ie. play-by-play scavenger hunt scenario? or play-by-play tour?

User Relationships

One to One
One to Many (friends)
One to Public (all)
Many to One
Many to Many (friends)
Many to Public (harlem shake?)
(8&9) Public to * (these don't make sense)

Friend to close friend (significant other?)

As an urban adventurer
I want to leave private messages for my significant other
So that we can share a memory together
As a person who likes to travel alone
I want an unobtrusive way to share travel experiences with friends
So that we can build intimacy from exclusivity (inside jokes?) in our
friendships.

Scenario 1: Leaving a friend only, uncoverable, passive message

Given that I am traveling in Thailand this week
And my good friend MT is traveling in Thailand next week
And my good friend MT loves pad thai
When I find a good pad thai spot in Thailand
Then I can leave a hidden message for her "Gotta have the #4 shrimp w/ peanut sauce"
And if she ever stumbles upon it geolocationally(?) she sees a very
serendipitous message.

Scenario 2: Leaving a friend only, uncoverable, active message

...
Then I can leave a message for her to "You gotta try the #4 shrimp w/
peanut sauce!"
And she will see it on her activity feed? push notification? inbox?
And she can seek it out to geo-uncover the message!

Scenario 3: Leaving a friend only public message

...
Then I can leave a public message "I loved the #4 shrimp w/ peanut sauce."
And she can see the message (geotagged to map) immediately

Friend to many friends

As a traveler travelling with or without friends
And friends travelling afterwards
I want to be able to leave messages (gems) for them to serendiptously find
So that I can share the climing experience
And we can continue the conversation of that shared experience (other wise I would never know we crossed paths, right?)
As a rock climber deep water soloing in Thailand this week
And some rock climbing friends will be deep water soloing in Thailand next week
When I find a good route on a boulder

Many friends to friend/many friends?

Professional to Public

facebook integration

on windows:

D:\Michael\www\footprint\android\assets>keytool -exportcert -alias androiddebugk ey -keystore D:\Michael.android\debug.keystore |c:\cygwin\bin\openssl sha1 -bin ary | c:\cygwin\bin\openssl base64 Enter keystore password: android P7OGnSPz/jqJpW01UT6eJIq+tBw=

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