We were inspired by all the great videos presenting other Android-enabled applications being entered into Google’s Android Challenge so we created a short (4 minute) video about Pocket Journey.
You’ll be shown screen shots in the video or you can view close ups on our main website
We’ve tried to capture what we view as the power of community and the interest we’ve heard around packaging high quality knowledge from a range of people and making it available through mobile phones.
As you can imagine, there will be a broad range of topics provided through Pocket Journey so it will be a major challenge to filter, pacakge, & deliver just the information you want.
Yes…this GREATLY simplifies the challenge but we wanted to give you a very very “rough” idea of where we’re headed. We plan to provide more details as the project matures.
But don’t just take these static images as the real message. Check out the Pocket Journey video to get a much clearer understanding and to actually “hear” what it’s all about. It will only take 4 minutes of your time.
Advanced data analytics… hah…
Yeah…a little gimmicky, but we can’t give out the recipe to the secret sauce just yet…
Your site seems to act like the source of the audio tours is some big secret. Aren’t these audio files just the same content from http://www.tourcaster.com/ ?
Hi Karl,
Good question, and fortunately for us, the answer is ‘no’. As you suggested, Tourcaster is a simple reseller of audio tours generated by individuals such that Tourcaster provides no sense of community involved. In Tourcaster’s case though, this is not a problem or a defect in their business model as they achieve their business ambitions quite readily by simply providing an audio tour aggregation function.
As you suggest though, while some of our premium content will definitely come from established tour providers like those that for which Tourcaster resells, we could never establish the depth or breadth of media that Pocket Journey aspires to by simply resorting to that pre-existing & somewhat saturated business model/sales channel. As you hint at, Pocket Journey would be nothing more than an audio tour reseller in that case.
So yes…unfortunately…the extent of our media community and exact process through which we will obtain our media must sadly remain a trade secret until we have established enough of a competitive lead to let everyone in.
Thanks for asking,
Anthony