Spring BBQ! March 24th

[e30austin]

All the southern guys: if you want, we can all meet at my shop (right off the freeway) and head down Marine Drive to the park.

If not, guess I'll go by myself! Haha.

[AAA325iS]

Please add one more E-30 to the list.
I'm down !! Can I bring something ?

[2mAn]

Hey Aaron! will you be able to caravan with us? We are leaving Paolos house at 10am. Ill bump the caravan thread

[OldDrunkenSailor]

Please add one more E-30 to the list.
I'm down !! Can I bring something ?

I don't think that anyone has dibs'ed anything resembling potato salad or coleslaw, two picnic mainstays!

[AAA325iS]

Hey Simon Yes I would like to hook up somewhere
After Olympia I'm on the west side of the sound
This weekend :-)
I texted brad I have his # so maybe we can make
It happen:-)

[OldDrunkenSailor]

like 3 months ago I had the idea for a mobile website where you could have ad-hoc group chats with built-in mapping exactly for situations like this. that would be beyond handy right now.

[Earendil]

like 3 months ago I had the idea for a mobile website where you could have ad-hoc group chats with built-in mapping exactly for situations like this. that would be beyond handy right now.

Get an iPhone/Android phone. There are plenty of apps that pull this off quite nicely :)

[OldDrunkenSailor]

The point is that you shouldn't need a platform specific app for something that should be on the web. You can do it better with web technologies on more platforms. No one needs to download an app, have to install updates, share screen names, none of that stuff. The entire thing can be run from a browser with gusto.

[AbeSonic]

Walkie talkies FTW.

[OldDrunkenSailor]

that doesn't have the map portion and cmon, typing on your phone is so much safer than talking while driving.

[e30austin]

There's app for that. "Voxer."

[OldDrunkenSailor]

pretty foul looking, but the overall point that i'm trying to make is that you don't need an app for any part of that. you can do it out of a web browser so people don't need to have some crappy app open or download updates or anything. you can just point a browser to it and it would just work.

If I had a free weekend I'd just do it myself and be done with this mess.

[LuckyHenriksen]

All the southern guys: if you want, we can all meet at my shop (right off the freeway) and head down Marine Drive to the park.

If not, guess I'll go by myself! Haha.

I think there might be a number of people meeting at my place on the way there. We could time it to meet up with you as we rolled through town somehow

[e30austin]

I think there might be a number of people meeting at my place on the way there. We could time it to meet up with you as we rolled through town somehow

My shop is like 10 minutes tops from the park, so I'm sure we'll figure something out.

[Earendil]

The point is that you shouldn't need a platform specific app for something that should be on the web. You can do it better with web technologies on more platforms. No one needs to download an app, have to install updates, share screen names, none of that stuff. The entire thing can be run from a browser with gusto.

So many ways I want to disagree with your wording.
Platform specific apps give the best HMI experience.
There is no reason a platform specific app can't have cross platform compatibility.

Now, this might make for a good web app, and if you want to broadcast your location to anonymous people, great. I don't think I'd join such a website though :\
To each his own!