Some background to the thumbtribes project
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | No Comments »The project was created due to my frustrations with paying for the amount of data sent over my phone’s GPRS connection. I like the freedom to a buy phone without being tied into any contract. The downside of this approach is the metered cost of using the Internet. Using my packedobjects tool I was able to create an efficient protocol that would add location awareness to a messaging application without adversely affecting the cost of using the application. This approach seems to go against the current trend of building applications which use web interfaces and protocols to send bloated data over expensive networks. Of course such approaches are likely to look slick and be highly usable, but will they be affordable?
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