Over dinner at ALT-C, Helen was encouraging several of us to experiment with fourSquare – we got it to recognise that there were several of us in the East Midlands Conference Centre; however, some people’s devices were a bit confused – though it thought that Frances & I were about 70 m from it; it thought Helen herself was 2,500 or so m. from it. Yet, we were all on the same table! (It had Nick some 250 m from it…)
At the time, I was using the app on the iPod, connected to Eduroam. I’m now back in the hall & using the Mifi (originally just for the iPod, now for the laptop too, due to the incredibly slow University network – poor students).
My Mifi is, however, *very* confused as to where it is. I used it in Bristol (several places) a few weeks ago – indeed – we were using it (as I thought) with the iPod as a basic SatNav. It’s now utterly convinced that it’s still in Bristol – and I can’t persuade it otherwise. When the iPod’s connected to it & it’s using location sensitive stuff, it reverts back to Bristol. I’ve been in London, Portsmouth, Derbyshire & now Nottingham. And it’s not convinced.
So, when we try to all login to FourSquare tomorrow – to get a “swarm” badge (whatever one of those is!) I may well be elsewhere. So, everyone else … please sign in!
(And, if anyone knows how to convince my Mifi I’m not in Bristol, let me know)!