New App Gives You a Sixth Sense

By Melody Smith|March 15th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off

A new mobile app for your iPhone tells you when people who belong to your social circle are physically near you. Can we say stalker?

This interesting topic was discovered on SFGate in their article, “Here’s A Socially Acceptable Way To Stalk People Around You.” The app is called Highlight and it shows you photos of people around you and see who you know in common — before you even talk to them. This app was created by Paul Davison, who has a history of entrepreneurship. Davison’s last startup was a semantic web company called Metaweb, which was acquired by Google in 2010. After the acquisition, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, where he seeded the idea for Highlight.

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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New App Gives You a Sixth Sense