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Need to Find a Friend?
Echo helps you find your existing friends and make new ones by letting you interact with real people around you in real time. Using Sonar, Echo's built-in Friend Radar, you can scan an area to see who's around.
Now it's easy to make plans as you go, leaving you free to enjoy the company of your friends.
Sure beats spending your time checking in.
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Want to feel engaged?
Echo lets you talk with other people instead of just telling them where you are. Using GPS, Echo can sort chat rooms by location, making it easy to communicate-safely and securely-with people nearby.
Now you can interact in real time, instead of just posting to the stream.
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Need to Gather a Group?
Echo lets you create and promote events by sharing them with others on the map. Beacon, Echo's built in event manager, lets you see what's going on, rather than just telling you.
Not sure what to do? Every Beacon comes with its own chat room so you can check out the scene before showing up.
What a better way to plan a night out.
Who We Are?
Echo is the creation of Christian Levis, Nigel Snowdon, and Raul Noriega. We are not programmers, just three guys from New York looking for a better way to interact on a mobile phone. We think "checking in" is lame. Telling people where you are removes all of the interaction that comes with actually being social. Life is not a passive stream of information, but the product of talking to and engaging with those around you. Part of what makes living in a big city so exciting are the chance encounters you have with people you do not know.
Talking with others is not only fun, but informative. Echo uses location-based chat rooms to capture that experience. Instead of just broadcasting your where you are with a "check in," Echo lets you talk with real people at your location. You can choose whether those are people you know, by creating a private chat and inviting friends, or people you don't know, by creating a public room or joining one already in existence. Search for any topic or interest you like. Echo can then use GPS data to sort the chat rooms by location. Now you can talk to locals with the same interest, right from your phone.
Upcoming features
Right now we are raising money to fund the completion of our digital goods store. Click here to
donate. This will not only allow users to purchase
all kinds of "bling" for the app but to play games against each other.
It will also support charitable donations (free of charge) for
those organizations who sign up.
Beyond the store, we plan to make another aspect of the mobile phone more collaborative and interactive with each upgrade. Here are some of our ideas:
- Wire - visual RSS feed that displays news by location
- Seed - visual location-based comment tree
- Shuttle - a new take on mobile file sharing
- Layers - tabbed map browsing for location based points
You can read about these features, and others, as we get closer to development in the blog. Feel free to leave comments or questions in the meantime.
