node.js ko
Facetitude
Facetitude
by Spillz
It’s about bringing real-time location sharing to Facebook. It’s a web application which enables Facebook users to track real-time location of their friends.
Judging Instructions
We weren’t able to finish a fully working prototype though it supposed to show you and your friends on the map real-time. For now you only see yourself and the friends opened the app while you are looking. Will definitely push forward once the KO is over =)
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Google Maps API Socket.IO Express.js Mongodb Less Everyauth Bootstrap from Twitter
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dylang
contestantBYK
contestantVery good point. We updated the description after your vote, thanks! =)
mattsoldojudgeHmm – I basically ended up with my picture on a map – not sure what I was supposed to be seeing. Am I supposed to see where all of my friends are? If so, you need to deal with the n=1 case to make it useful.
- contestant
Yeah, you should see your friends using the app at that time updating constantly though the app works a bit clumsy since we weren’t able to finalize it quite yet. Thank you very much for your vote.
fredyatesivjudgeI’m a little unsure of what the app is supposed to do or how to use it. I’m guessing it just shows any of my connected facebook friends on the map but I couldn’t make that happen.
I had a facebook friend join the app with me but nothing seemed to change.
- contestant
Thank you for checking. At the time you were trying the app the description was not pretty good sou good figuring out there =) You should have seen your friend on the map at least as a marker though we couldn’t actually finish the app so there might be a technical problem.
mikealjudgei’m not seeing anyone else, do they have to be in my friend list or something?
- contestant
You and your friends should open the app at the same time to see each other. May not be the best way to do this though we really had little time =) Thanks for checking!
therazorbladejudgeThe idea of being able to see where all your friends are is interesting but requiring everyone to basically use this tool to share it is never going to happen. I think you should have focused on something like FourSquare API or even Twitter geo tags to extract most recent public location to supplement the live feed.
- contestant
Well Google Already does what I guess you thnik with Latitude service but it is not real-time. The aim in this project was to provide real-time locations and there is no way you can track some one like that with Twitter Geolocation or Foursquare. If your friend opens up this, then you can see him real-time, if not then (s)he doesn’t want to be found, at least for the moment.
charlesbeelerjudgeI like the idea of being able to see where my friends are in real-time (not sure they will feel the same way). Got my location right but did not show me on the map, just a map of the general (as in state of hawaii) location. Look forward to seeing this progress.
SethGBjudgedawnerd
contestantCOuldn’t get to work at all. Just saw a map.
sreeix
contestantricardobeat
contestant
Not really sure the point. If you update the description with more details it might help the judges.