{"id":2026,"date":"2004-06-23T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2004-06-23T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:42:01","slug":"early-to-bedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/early-to-bedd\/","title":{"rendered":"Early to BEDD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via 7d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to<br \/>\nmobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=5495812\" class=\"external external_icon\">She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan strangers&#8217; phones for their personal profiles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The application joins a swelling number of Internet and mobile phone based services that offer to widen people&#8217;s social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Users download the BEDD software into a compatible phone, complete a short profile of themselves and include a description of who they want to befriend, or an item they want to buy or sell.<\/p>\n<p>The software automatically searches for and exchanges profiles with other phones that come within a 20-meter (65 ft) radius. Matched users are given each other&#8217;s contact details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve become close with people that I&#8217;ve never known before, built up a close clique of friends whom I chill out with, sleep over at their homes and go for late suppers with,&#8221; said Lim, 19. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via 7d SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan strangers&#8217; phones for their personal profiles. The application joins a swelling number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}