I tried the Jyngle service after a positive experience with Pinger and boy was I disappointed. It’s surprising that for all the publicity these companies get that no one actually reports on the quality of these services. Deal info and CEO hobnobbing seem to trump first hand experience.
Jyngle and Pinger realize different subsets [...]

Pinger is the first service I’ll examine in a small set of startups and established companies aspiring to bring swarming or flocking to mobile communication. (Next post, I’ll look at Jyngle.)
CELL 2 CELL BASE CASE
Pinger’s operations can be a bit difficult to describe, so I’ll start with the steady state case where all participants [...]

Today’s New York Times runs a story about the power of databases in shaping reputation. The story focuses on expunged criminal records but it could just as well been about the impact of identity theft on credit histories. In either case, facts adverse to one’s reputation seem to take a life of its own and [...]