Rating experiences, iPhone-style
Happy (belated) New Year, one and all - I do hope 2010 turns out to be a smashing success for everyone.
I figured I’d start things off with a video made by my friend and colleague Etan (@Zaqintosh). It’s a concept for what an iPhone app designed to measure experiences (any experiences, from surfing a website to hopping on BART) could look like, and even though it’s crude, I think it gets the potential across.
Can you imagine if we were able to rate experiences on the fly, all day every day? I, for one, would love to track which ones get me up, and which bring me down. The trick, I think, will be to get people used to rating their life experiences; Yelp’s easy because it’s tied to businesses, but it might not be obvious to people that rating a bad jog, conversation, taxi ride (due to traffic, not the cabbie) or plane ride is just as valuable as rating your local Starbucks.
In any case, without further ado, voila:
Tip top looks neat, if a little different. Cool stuff.
Thanks, Felix, for your appreciation. It is the same concept at a high level. I have focused on building the core technology necessary to make sense of the experiential data which, as you know, is largely unstructured. I hope other services will help users to generate data that TipTop’s technology can process and convert into actionable knowledge. Please write about us so that others will also check TipTop out. Such a big idea will only fully get solved if we all work together. I hope we will keep in touch.