I'm making more progress with LFG. On wednesday, in about a one and a half hour timeframe I put together a mobile interface. If you've got a WAP enabled phone with internet service you can see it at http://www.johncaruso.ca/lfg/mobile/index.wml . You can also view it in Firefox if you have the wmlbrowser extension/Add-on!



You will need to register through the regular website first before being able to use the mobile site. But once you do, you can edit your location as well as find people at that location FROM YOUR PHONE!



The next major feature I need to implement (or fix rather) is smarter location finding. I need to have an intelligent way for people to be able to enter in their location and have it stored in a generic way so that no matter how someone decides to describe that they are at a certain club or restaurant in a certain city, they will be able to find others who described that same location but in a different way. The catch here is it has to be easy for the person to enter this in. Nobody wants to have to type in street addresses on their mobile phone. I think this one feature will make or break this website in terms of it actually becoming a viable product (the only other area that will be of concern once this one is resolved is 'How to make money?').



But I might put this project on the backburner for at least a week because I have another project idea that I want to at least get off the ground (and another one in the works, mentally). The first being the same one I alluded to in a previous post, which I refuse to give a description of until I actually implement it. And the second, which came to me about an hour ago, is an addon for MSN Messenger that lets you collaborate on a text file (mostly for helping edit program code for someone).

Well, the weekend is coming to an end, and for the first time in a couple months, I feel like I have accomplished something!



Yesterday, following the lead of Andrew, I decided to start a new project. So, I looked at my stockpile of website ideas, and I picked out this one: LFG. LFG stands for 'Looking For Group' which is the name of a chat channel in World of Warcraft that people use to, believe it or not, look for a group to do instance runs with. LFG is just the working title for this little project, until we find something that #1 doesn't sound so geeky and #2 better represents what the site is for.



Now, #2 is kind of tricky, because I'm still not sure what the site is for. Its fundamental function right now is to help you find people who are, at this very moment, around you. It doesn't do that very well though. I still need to implement the mobile end of this, otherwise you can only use it on a desktop computer. Which means you will be using it in your home (90% of the time), and why would you be looking for other people who are also in your home? It is usually your family, no surprise there.