Urbanspoon’s iPhone application is a fun, engaging app that uses the features of the iPhone and location awareness to create a unique local discovery experience.
They are now showing a heatmap (thanks to High Earth Orbit) showing where the shakes have been taking place for the last 24 hours:
According to Urbanspoon:
6,000,000 shakes
300,000 iPhones have downloaded the application
1,000 shakes a minute at peak
20 shakes per iPhone
10 days so far
woah and this is just the start of these applications. I’ve seen a couple cool ones already. can’t wait to get a iphone myselves as well.
I’m not sure, but i think this system uses the same device in the iphone for some cool graphical visualisations.
http://www.vimeo.com/1496857 this one links directly to the video.
Comment by martijn (77 comments) — August 25, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
A fun part about it is when you look at the animation, you can see the activity slow slow down sweeping from East to West.
Comment by Erek Dyskant (7 comments) — August 26, 2008 @ 8:41 am
@Martin
Ubranspoon has done a great job capturing a fun side of location awareness, the accelerometer & local while gathering some incredible stats about their users!
Mike
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (737 comments) — August 26, 2008 @ 10:41 am
The whole shake and scroll UI on the iPhone/UrbanSpoon, etc. is just brilliant UI design. That said UrbanSpoon has no listings for Pleasanton, CA. When are they going to launch SubUrbanSpoon?
Comment by Andrew Shotland (15 comments) — August 26, 2008 @ 8:58 pm