Week 6 Participation - The End

Wow, I can’t believe it is the end of the semester and graduation is here!

This class has been very insightful and it has been a pleasure learning along with my classmates who all had valuable input. I wish the best of luck to everyone in their future endeavors! You can always reach me at ada03d@fsu.edu or through my produsage blog at http://tallahassee365.wordpress.com.

This week I completed the following tasks for class participation:

• Posted four blog entries (this makes five).
• Read all my classmates' blogs and the official class blog, and posted comments on six separate entries.
• Read week six discussion board content and contributed 22 comments.
• Looked at all my classmates produsage projects (we are an impressive bunch!)
• Checked out suggested Web 2.0 tools: CiteULike, Stumbleupon, and Technorati. (Even referred CiteULike to some of my coworkers because I liked it so much!)
• I also checked out some other Web 2.0 tools that were not suggested but that I wanted to know more about, such as Tumblr and Skout.
• Worked more on my produsage project, as it will continue beyond this class, including daily blog posts, Facebook posts, and research into local events and activities. Today is day 10 – only 355 more days to go, LOL!

Mobile Phone GPS Dating Apps

This morning I found this article on CNN, "With new GPS dating apps, it's love the one you're near," which talks about a new class of GPS-enabled smartphone apps based on connecting single people for dating through proximity and location. These apps seem to echo some of the same basic concepts of Foursquare which we discussed last week.

There are now at least three phone apps (Skout, Grindr, and StreetSpark) that provide you with a menu of singles who are registered on the app that are close to you at any given point in time. Each single person provides a picture of themselves to help other singles identify them. The idea is to send messages back and forth to break the ice, or you can just walk up to that person and see if you click.

In my personal opinion, this seems dangerous and scary for the fact that you don't know what other kinds of people are using the app. But, on the other hand, everyone says in order to find a love match you have to "put yourself out there." I'd like to hear others thoughts on these kinds of applications.