So, I was trying to find some things about the history of 64Digits, but I couldn't find anything on either 64D itself or Google (which is supposed to know *anything*).
When I joined in 2007 the website was already active and had quite some members. When was 64D launched? Who worked on the first version? And, seeing as there have never been advertisements on the website, or any option to donate, who has been paying for the host all that time? O.o I could figure it should be quite expensive to keep online over the years.Just curious.Because this entry would probably be too short, I'm going to tell something about a project I'm working on with a friend: The basic concept behind the project is location based content. Although I think it has been used since 2004, and services such as foursquare/gowalla/etc are becoming more popular, location based services aren't used *that* much yet.I started the project with a teacher at my school, in order to make something cool that pupils could use to learn something in a fun way. Recently I came into contact with some cool people who are working on projects that are well-known in the city I live in. They are partially responsible for the free wireless network we have in the city (as one of the first - if not the first - cities in the Netherlands), and they are very interested in location based media.So they asked us to come up with some ideas that people (and especially tourists) could use on their mobile phone. One of the obvious ideas is a GPS 'enhanced' city guide type of application, where you, as a tourist for example, get information about the place where you are, search for nearby restaurants… and so on.Information about (historical) buildings and restaurants could be nice for some people, but when you're using dynamic content to show what movies are playing in the cinema you're standing a few meters away from (just an example), I'm starting to wonder how useful location based content really is. How could the location based aspect 'enhance' information like this?Perhaps you guys have any ideas?
Cool. So it wasn't called 64D when it was just a forum/showcase?
thats how v0 looked. V1 was different.
http://web.archive.org/web/20051211082431/http://www.64digits.com/Ohh, my bad.
If a human can avoid a 10m walk, they will.
@juju That's my point, why bother making it location based then? I could as well gather all sorts of info and put them on 1 website for the city. I just feel like something is missing.It's a different way of sorting the information and it's a very different way to publish the information (set up wifi and a server and you're broadcasting to the local population). At the minute, getting a website on the internet requires a significant investment, both in terms of initial monetary cost and further maintenance. Domain names are alien to the non-initiated. A very simple piece of software and a cheap base-station could change that dramatically. You don't have to worry about advertising or a presence or getting people to sit at home and connect to your website's address. It's immediate connectivity to a marketing scheme - that's really useful and very powerful.
Both v1 and v0 look better than v2 and all suggested v3s :)
And if the application already is webbased?
The basic idea is that when you join the free network you get redirected to a portal (initially at least, there are no restrictions on the network whatsoever), where the application can be opened.Also, a native app requires you to build it for multiple devices, publish it somewhere, publish the other version elsewhere, provide support on all locations. I don't think a web server is that hard to maintain when compared to that.That's a retarded system. You might as well use Google Maps and use those little marker things to connect to a website.
On a mobile device? That doesn't really work, simply because of the screen size.
I don't have the patience to argue this. Feel free to come up with no ideas.