Still an interesting concept, and P2P across different platforms is
something that *should* work, there's just not a good technology
available to do it (yet).  ...,  I guess this is why people are just
using the internet as their backend.

Like all things (in software?), this is something that will just take
time to work.

Kris

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I gave up on bump a long time ago. It fails too often. There is a
> limit to how often I can ask the same person to bump again. After the
> third time, it is embarrassing how much easier it would have been to
> scan a physical business card.
>
> On Sep 14, 11:05 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > How does something like Bump work?
>>
>> Based on IP magic and a very good algorithm determining bump times and
>> mapping them to locations, which they can prove gives a  probabilistic
>> bound on the number of errors they can make in identification, and
>> keep it sufficiently low (you can ask people to rebump, this is what
>> happens in the case where many people are using the system at a
>> similar location.)
>>
>> It's funny, people always present this to me as a counterexample...
>>
>> Kris
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