Way over the freaky line (but very cool) is PlaceMe, journaling app

Everyone I've shown this app to today (it came out last week) says "that's freaky."

What does it do? It captures a ton of data on your phone as you move through the world. Right now it keeps a list of places. But here I sit down with founder Sam Liang for a discussion about just what data it captures, how that data could be used, and how he's going to get people to cross the freaky line.

This is the future folks and, it, is, indeed, freaky. Learn more at https://www.placemeapp.com/placeme/ It's a free Android or iPhone app.

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[Champinoz]

I was put off by the 30 min length, but It was totally worth it.

[SuccubusLover69]

Splendid if you dont give a shit about your privacy and personal data.

[Shane Phillips]

It is a private system unless you choose to share on Facebook or twitter or email

[Shane Phillips]

i wonder how u look up the map online. anyone know the website he is using

[KL Tah]

Great for parents!

[Valentin Kravtchenko]

Yep, but about the "crossing the line" stuff, you really should check :

hyperperception.blogspot.ca/20­11/08/your-isp-and-government-­best-friends.html

It's a DEFCON conference about how the gouvernment use the data. So even if a startup have a really good privacy policy, gouvernment still can ask them them all the data they need

[David Henderson]

This is amazing... cookies (implicit placecasting) in the real world. There will be $ billions in revenue running on this OS in 10 years...... be the platform!

[nightmares4q]

What an incredibly douchy hippster thing to say.

[sandeepcoepcivil]

Honest Wife

[Robert J Sclabassi]

Interesting. But several years behind the technology being developed in the eButton project at the University of Pittsburgh.

[mike riddell]

Thieving bastards

[mschmidler]

calling someone hipster is so ridiculous. Everyone is a "hipster" to some degree.