And now the NearVerse…
I came across an interesting article this morning on a ‘new’ concept of the NearVerse and the application LoKast, which establishes very local and disposable social networks – within 300 feet in fact. The concept is you can establish these local social networks to meet people and more importantly for many share music with those around you.
This technology could be interestingly adopted in the postal and parcel world. Imagine that your local Postie had the ability to establish a social network as he went on his/her round. He became the hub of community communication as they delivered the mail.
For many postmen and women, they consider that they are performing a community service and this concept would extend this into the virtual world. Many smart phones already are locationally aware and can establish these networks automatically if the application is running. Consider the idea of the NearVerse or even PostieVerse being created in a 300 – 500m distance around the delivery agent – this could provide local news, gossip, information about items to be delivered, requests to leave an item if people aren’t at home, advertise local services (maybe ones with space capacity at a cut down rate), etc. This would effectively reinforce the delivery agent as a central hub of the community.
Thoughts?
