{"id":842,"date":"2010-09-16T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-09-16T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T10:08:51","slug":"number-plates-for-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/number-plates-for-social-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Plates For Social Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script><em>Bump Network is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to  launch at   the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon  Valley.  After  our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our  coverage  of them  remains objective.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We spend a lot of time isolated in our cars on the road \u2014 five years  of our lives, on average. But \u00a0Bump Network aims to turn the streets  into a social network by linking people through license plates. To that  end, the company is unveiling Bump.com today at the DEMO Fall 2010 conference in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>When Bump users see someone in a car they want to communicate with,  they take a picture of the person\u2019s license plate. The Bump iPhone app  (pictured right) or a similar BlackBerry app passes along a message,  like \u201cWay to use turn signals\u201d or \u201cWould you like to go on a date?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the person has claimed their license plate on Bump.com and  verified they are the car\u2019s owner, they\u2019ll receive the roadside missive  by text message or email. They could then look up your identity page  (anonymous messages aren\u2019t allowed) and decide whether to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Thrower, chief executive of Bump Network, believes meeting  people through their cars makes perfect sense. He thinks of Bump as  creating a real world equivalent of websites\u2019 cookie files, a kind of  tracking mechanism that can tell others about your interests and  movements.<\/p>\n<p>Thrower acknowledges that there are a lot of red flags that go up  when you\u2019re talking about driving cars and communicating. Safety and  privacy are a couple of big issues. Why would you possibly want someone  else to know who you are and where you\u2019re going in a car?<\/p>\n<p>But he says Bump has figured out how to deal with those issues. If  Bump detects through your iPhone\u2019s built-in accelerometer that you are  moving more than five miles per hour, it won\u2019t let you send a text  message. Instead, you\u2019ll use a voice interface to speak the license  plate and message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bump Network is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/number-plates-for-social-networking\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}