All attendees of the f8 developer conference are receiving special RFID tags that enable them to check-in to various locations throughout the conference venue. The service lets you tag yourself in photos, become a fan of various Facebook Pages, and share activity to your Facebook profile. While it’s still a concept service, it’s interesting to see some of the things that Facebook developers are currently testing.
Facebook has been widely expected to make some type of location announcement today, yet there are no specific sessions dedicated to explaining how to implement location within Facebook. One can imagine that RFID would be extremely useful for enabling users to check in to various locations, however in its current form, there’s little disclosure on what each check in results in.
For example, there’s a “Facebook Web Development” booth that you can check into by tapping your RFID tag on a reader (pictured to the right). Once you check in, you become a fan, however there is no disclosure what will happen once you swipe your ID card. Thus the process is clearly an early stage test to provide some entertainment value for attendees of the f8 event. It’s definitely interesting though and it’s a sign that we may see other location announcements in the coming hours.
One other cool feature of the presence reader is that all check-ins are displayed on a large display within the main hall of the conference center. The result is that you can watch people as they walk around the venue in theory. While the actual presence tracking doesn’t appear to be functional (in terms of peoples’ exact location), the visualization adjusts as more people check in to various areas throughout the venue.
More f8 coverage to come!
Presence Visualization
Presence Profile Photo Story
Interesting.
We deployed three “proactive display” applications using RFID readers and large screens at the UbiComp 2003 conference. The passive RFID tags we used could be detected from a range of about 10-15 feet, and while everyone had to opt-in – by creating an online profile and inserting the 2″x3″ tag into their name badge sleeve – there were no explicit check-ins for the different applications.
Each of the three applications – AutoSpeakerID, Ticket2Talk and Neighborhood Window – revealed different aspects of people’s online profiles in the physical spaces they were sharing with others. Over the course of the three days, several people used (or “gamed”) the system in interesting ways we had not anticipated.
More details can be found here: http://interrelativity.com/proactivedisplays/
I hope you’ll report more on your experience with the tags and displays at f8.
Wow. I was thinking about this yesterday.
Is RFID more accurate than GPS? I Think Yes, besides GPS is “wide”.
I Think could be used inside places like rooms or discos and Augmented Reality applications could be integrated with Social Media Data.
:Lame:
We just did this at a party in RFID Journal Live. Check out pictures and more from the Guest Experience app at http://rtvs.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/spotlight-rocks-the-impinj-party-an-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-guest-experience-app-built-on-spotlight/
Does this mean the mark of the beast already 666??? Yikes!!!
Really interesting!
Nice to see that Facebook is getting into the physical world!We’ve been working on bridging the gap between online and offline worlds for a year now at Getyoo, the company I am working for.
We clearly see many opportunities in the use of RFID for connecting people and extend the internet to the real world.
We have developed a small RFID device (the Clickey) that can be worn as a keychain or a necklace. It allows to connect with people, objects and ‘things’ in the real world in order to collect digital content or exchange contact information. It’s a convenient networking tool allowing to share ‘digital business cards’ or profiles in real life.
A Clickey can also read RFID tags, small stickers that can be placed on objects. They are linked to digital content such as a sheet product, a coupon, or a Power Point presentation, a PDF, a video, a website, or any type of content available on the web. Getyoo users just need to insert their key into their computer’s USB port to retrieve all the information selected earlier.
We use the system for events such as trade shows and conferences, it’s a greener alternative to catalogues and flyers so people don’t need to carry around tons of documents and business cards.
We’re developing other features and we love to see the work of others integrating online and offline worlds. I hope we’ll get to see more about this Facebook experiment.
Check out http://getyoo.com for more info
For the people that think this is the mark of the beast. Obviously, you dont read your bibles. The mark is contrary to Gods mark. The mark is NOT technology rather WORSHIP! Why would God care about a silly chip? How does receiving a chip in your shoulder negate worship? Do you really think satan is that stupid to just tattoo your forehead? Bible pretty clear is all about worship. A national ID card can be used to control buying or selling. Wake up lost sheep. Wake up and stop listning to the media.
go to you tube and watch these videos
How Not To Get The Mark of the Beast by David Asscherick (part 4 of 7) and 5 of 7
I’d like to try this with our Adventure Passport contest where people have to go around the area’s vacation hotspots and get a holepunch on a card and at the end hand it in for prizes. Next level could be them swiping the card with thier facebook Id’s! WOW!
I’d like to try this with our Adventure Passport contest where people have to go around the area’s vacation hotspots and get a hole punch on a card and at the end hand it in for prizes. Next level could be them swiping the card with their facebook Id’s! WOW!