Excellent! This will really get the juices flowing. Sounds like your app may come from a slightly different perspective though?
-----Original Message----- From: android-challenge@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 PM To: Android Challenge Subject: [android-challenge] Re: WINNERMETER +1 Emergency Preparedness Michael, you have competition! On May 10, 4:41 am, "Michael DeJadon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 for Safety Net > > I just want to provide a quick overview of the idea. I'm hoping to have a > web site up soon to promote it. Safety Net was designed to be a personal > alert system. I have a daughter that I will be sending off to college in a > few years and I couldn't stand hearing about some of the attacks that were > taking place on these kids. My goal was to take the technology that Android > provides and try to create a deterrent of some sort. > > I live in the Boston area and ironically just as I found out that my app was > selected for the top 50, a news report came on about an attack that just > took place the previous night at Harvard University. Here is the story if > anyone is interested. > > http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/05/woman_attacked... > > There are actually four different modes that can be accessed via the > interface, Panic, Silent, Medical Emergency and Tracker. I will provide a > more in depth description soon. My application also has an additional mode > of operation that I can't mention at this time but I'm very excited about > its potential. > > My goal is to see this application in the world and to hopefully make a > difference in someone's life. I have seen some fantastic products presented > on this forum. I am really looking forward to using them someday. I am just > a single developer with a full time job. No team. I spent more hours on this > than any of my other crazy ideas and believe me there have been many. I am > still trying to get caught up on sleep. No video and as I said, not even a > web site yet to support it. I guess what I'm trying to say to anyone that > will listen is don't give up on the dream. We all got involved for one > reason or another whether the hope to create something fun to use or > something that will help someone in some way. I think that this platform > gives us all something very special, a voice. > > Dan U. thanks for responding to an email that I posted regarding how I > should deliver some audio files in my project. It made me rethink the > process which I do believe made a difference. Also my hat goes off to > Plusminus for his wonderful web site. > > I hope to have some additional information available soon. Good luck to > everyone! > > Mike D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: android-challenge@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peli > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:40 AM > To: Android Challenge > Subject: [android-challenge] Re: WINNERMETER > > +1 for SplashPlay (in collaboration with OpenIntents) > > http://www.splashplay.co.uk/http://www.openintents.org/en/node/11 > > Peli --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to android-challenge@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
