The local communication revolution is simple and it is called Telegram + Qwasapbot
Now that the Internet is the fabric that interconnects all over the world there are who are investing fortunes trying to get people to receive and to pay attention to local information. And as you can see, using the most complicated logic.
There are numerous attempts to geotag information and to make it flow. Since the QR codes to NFC technology what has not been achieved is that people going out there scanning squares and voluptuously sliding mobiles to exchange information.
None of these attempts to create local social networks represents a successful way to connect to the residents of a place. No, people do not want to create a neeeeeeeww profile with anoooother user and anoooother password. We do not want to install anooooother application that will be there bugging our already mistreated battery.
Among the applications with a great success are the IM. Here we have the supercharged WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger; as well as other less named applications but not without users (more in some parts of the world than others) as Line, Kik and even other more enigmatic but with an overwhelming success in countries like China.
These applications have achieved the goal of constant communication with our contacts, to form groups of diverse cultures and much more. But what they have not achieved in a simple and transparent way is to connect users located in the same geographical area.
It is true that you personally can form groups with people of your town or your school, but it is still a form of closed communication. And the part where many of these companies are working hard is to collect and to process your data to try to place you into subgroups including, of course, your actual location. In this way, you, as attractive advertising target are enormous.
But what about people? Why is it not easy, in a dynamic way and in real time, to get somewhere and contact anyone there to ask a question? Okay, do a half smile now and tell me that this has always been called: “get somewhere and ask someone”. Yeah, right, this traditional possibility is not excluded. But you only get to those who pass by your side. You can not throw a question, potentially, to the entire population to illustrate you with options and variants. With all this technological power in your pocket why is it still not easy to connect with the surrounding environment in a dynamic way?
I do not mean to enter a travel website, for example, find an article that speaks about the place where you are or you will go and to write a comment in the hope that at some point someone will respond. I’m talking about something as fresh as using your favorite messaging application.
SIMPLE SOLUTION
Messaging applications are already in all mobile phones. The most open, secure and always ready to make things easier is Telegram. I will not get into a war over what is the best ever. But for me, Telegram is the benchmark. So it did not cost me much to decide that the basis for testing a model of geolocated communication would be Telegram.
This model should be necessarily simple, not involving additional hardware or installing anything else on the phone. Just as dynamic as the act of texting itself, open to everyone and easy to handle.
So as soon as I realized that Telegram is the best application messaging for everyone, I had no doubts. From the desire to establish an effective localized communication with the frustration of living in a globalized coldly distant world, Qwasap was born.
Since the rest of the information is in the webpage and an outline of the story here (I am sorry, spanish for now), suffice to say (I know, with absolute lack of objective authority) that there is not, for the moment, other geolocalized communication tool so simple and affordable.
The machinery is mounted and is progressively improved in many aspects; especially thanks to the suggestions and experience of the users. I like to imagine that we have started a revolution. Now we just have to wait for users to take their place in the world. Anyone using Telegram (and increasingly are more, many more) can activate Qwasapbot. Then simply place yourself in a location and leave you there. No bother, it does not waste battery, it does not consume RAM, it does not use the CPU beyond that is required by Telegram itself (which is rather low). You are there, in that location. Tomorrow I get to the area where you are; maybe I need you and you can help me. Or vice versa. It will be an act of instantaneous exchange of local information. Is it not pretty?
