This is my website, so I get to do things like throw out silly ideas for mobile apps that would be awesomely cool. Thus, here is Post #1 in a potential new series entitled “Awesomely Cool Local-Mobile App Ideas.”
Title: Augmented Reality Reunion
Description: For all those class reunions in your hometown (there must be at least 3 or 4 a year, right?) an augmented reality application that allows you to hold up your phone and look through the camera. The phone identifies the person you’re looking and displays information about them, which they have provided to reunion organizers. Not only their names, but their spouse’s name, the number of kids they have, and anything else you ask them to provide before they show up.
Potential Sponsor: The local country club or bar & grill that is known as the go-to place for class reunions.
You can already do a lot of this stuff through iPhone applications like Yelp. This isn’t much different — you just have to be able to identify people by 1) their faces or 2) a barcode on their nametag, perhaps? So come on — someone build this, already! I have a sponsor I want to pitch. (And if you know an application that would do this, let me know in the comments.)
You know you need a Facebook page for your business. You may even think you know what kind of stuff you want to put there. But before you go one step further, you should think about this question: if my Facebook page is successful in engaging customers, what will that look like?
