Winner: $40,000 Alcatel-Lucent Location-Based iPad App Challenge
Tyler White, working with Mick Thompson, has created Peer to Peer, the winning iPad App in the Alcatel-Lucent TopCoder iPad App Challenge. Using Location Based Services (LBS), the new iPad app provides users with a unique way of looking at their world.
This app, the first of its kind to work with smart and “dumb” phones, displays pictures that are geographically close to users’ friends. The geotagged images are pulled from Flickr based on the latitude and longitude of your friends which is provided by the Alcatel Lucent/ Open API Service system.
“My inspiration for developing this app is my hope that new and interesting social patterns will emerge,” said Tyler White. ‘”For example, if your friends are hungry friends, you might start seeing your map populated by pictures of food and restaurants. If your friends are world travelers that enjoy the outdoors and van trips, your map may have an emergent theme of barren deserts and roadside assistance. This level of synchronicity is yet to be determined.”
More than seventy developers registered for the contest with entries from Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Nigeria, Philippines, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine and the United States.
Programming and design are both my play and my work. I feel like a digital alchemist on most days and look forward to the creative process. I love discovering new ways to apply the magic of technology to complex communication challenges. Most of all, the worlds of technology and design feed my soul!
