[Thali-talk] Google's Nearby

[Yaron Goland]

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From: Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info>
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:02 PM
To: Yaron Goland; thali-talk at thaliproject.org
Subject: Re: [Thali-talk] Google's Nearby

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015, at 04:45 PM, Yaron Goland wrote:
> Near as I can tell the whole thing is proprietary and other than the
> audio technology isn't doing anything particularly new.

Agreed. The audio piece is interesting though... I've thought about
using audible range tones as part of a more fun/social type of discovery
process, and as something you could broadcast over a loudspeaker at an
event possibly.

> for discovery on iOS as well). So we have high hopes for being able to do
> discovery across Android and iOS devices using BLE. Unfortunately moving
> non-trivial amounts of data is a whole other story. See
> http://www.goland.org/thaliiosandroidinterop/ and try not to cry. :(

We are about to embark on another round of work on our BLE-interop "AIr
Share" work, and I'll make sure we share where we are, and where we
expect to end up. Thanks for the reminder about your post on interop...
the Wifi-AP solution is definitely one we're familiar with through our
F-Droid and Courier app sharing solutions, though we haven't tried it as
part of an iOS->Android solution.

https://github.com/OnlyInAmerica/AirShare-Android
https://github.com/chrisballinger/AirShare
https://github.com/chrisballinger/BLEMeshChat
https://github.com/onlyinamerica/blemeshchat

> And unlike Google's work, our work is completely open source. :)

True dat!

> BTW, strictly out of curiosity. Do you subscribe to our atom feed [1] or
> to our twitter feed [2]? I only ask because that is where we publish all

I don't actively use a feed reader anymore, but I do follow you on
Twitter.

> of our technical content and I haven't found a good tool yet to
> automatically re-publish from there to our mailing list.

It would be nice to get a summary of your last week of Tweets posted to
this list. OTOH, maybe I should engage in feeds again, as well, since
well, we do make a secure feed reader app after all.

+n

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