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Are you ready?

Imagine traveling on a bus and getting through tons of traffic. Options: 1) read a book or a journal, in case you carry one; 2) mock at people around you; 3) go nuts and start yelling at the person sitting nearby; 4) do nothing, tumble your eyes and ignore.

There’s a fifth option. Grab your mobile phone and see where your friends are. Check what are your friends doing or send the picture you grabbed from the hot chick in front of you. Wouldn’t that be insanely cool? (crowd cheers).

Well, some guys are doing precisely that. They realized technologies are shifting and the mobile phone is to become the main stage for communications. I might add that the real boost will happen when prices for internet access through mobile carriers drop. But the phenomena is already happening. There’s no way back.

So, why don’t you pay them a visit? They’re still tinkering with their debuggers but sometime in the near future they might have something ready.

We welcome you, Handivi.


9 Responses to “Are you ready?”

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  1. MV
    Published at February 10th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Sa^Homething ready now:

    http://www.dodgeball.com/
    http://socialight.com/

    – MV

  2. mlopes
    Published at February 10th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    MV,

    dodgeball is only available to 22 American cities.

    As for socialight, it’s a really light social network as the point is just sharing notes.

    I think there’s still plenty of room for another decent social network.

  3. Carlos Andrade
    Published at February 10th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    There’s a fifth option. Grab your mobile phone and see where your friends are. Check what are your friends doing or send the picture you grabbed from the hot chick in front of you. Wouldn’t that be insanely cool? (crowd cheers).

    Are you talking about http://friendfeed.com ? :-)

  4. mlopes
    Published at February 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Carlos,

    Perhaps I didn’t get it right, but you can’t actually publish any content whatsoever with FriendFeed. You can only track websites where your friends are registered.

    Doesn’t seem to be exactly like Handivi.

  5. Carlos Andrade
    Published at February 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am

    You didn’t define Handivi. You just gave that description, which fits like a glove in friendfeed. Besides, you can choose any service to publish whatever you what and your friends can folow you on friendfeed… *and comment* on them.

    So, what exactly is Handivi ?

  6. cpinto
    Published at February 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am

    @Mlopes: thanks for the free PR :-)

    @Carlos: if that’s your cup of tea then yeah, you can look at handivi through the same lens of frienfeed. or jaiku. or mugshot, which came to life way before any other. or any other lifestream aggregator out there, except for one minor detail: we’re not in the business of aggregation :-)

    @MV: we would be foolish to enter a crowded market and not know who are our competitors (direct, indirect and substitutes) and how we compare to them :-)

  7. MV
    Published at February 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    @cpinto: that is a good sign. Make sure that you do have a *sustainable* competitive advantage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_advantage
    and go ahead and have fun.

    – MV

  8. cpinto
    Published at February 11th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    @MV yeah we’re already working on sustainable advantages too, thanks for the tip

  9. Carlos Andrade
    Published at February 12th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    @cpinto It’s not my cup of tea… it’s mlopes fricking defenition of handivi. I don’t know what handivi is or does, I assume he does, so I’m commenting on his definition. Just that…