What is Your Fantasy Mobile App?

Today I'm just going to share a little something I thought was fun. Interactive only through a voting system, but worth a look and a thought.

During the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), the folks at magnify.net partnered with Windows Mobile and created a little fantasy application microsite where 9 "players" in the online community have described their dream apps. The one to get the highest rating will be developed by Windows Mobile

My favorite is Steve Rosenbaum's idea for an app that allows you to stream live broadcasts from cell phone users recording video all around an event--a crowdsourcing effort.

I see two issues with this idea; IP concerns on the part of event organizers, and the still choppy nature of most cell phone video recordings.  But for events that approve of it, I see this as a great idea for the future.

What I find interesting is how some of the dreamed about apps already exist in some form--a great example of how the same idea can occur independently among different people (e.g. the development of calculus by Liebniz and Newton.)

Deborah Schultz asks for a "Find This" application so that she can take a picture of an object in the real world which would allow someone to shop for that object, or similar ones, online. Get yourself the Amazon Remembers app that already does this, Deb.

While Hugh MacLeod is hoping for an "Artists App" that allows him to develop a slide show of his art work, which can be updated, and allows users to share images with friends and purchase the art from a direct link.  It's not exactly the same thing, but a new Grateful Dead app was launched this month by Mosaic Legends which utilizes Jay Blakesberg's photography of the Dead to provide a photo history of the band, and also has a store link to purchase prints of the photos. Ok, so the sharing and updating features on there, but its just a step away.

So, this raises the question--what would your fantasy mobile app be?

Mine would be a nicely developed "Event App" (with a hit of Urbanspoon influence) that would aggregate event listings and allow me to select various styles of entertainment and, by location and cost, find out either randomly, or through search, what I might want to see while I'm on the go, or as a plan for the future. (There is an app called Eventful, but its functionality and listing of events isn't all that good - e.g. it has gaps from some major NYC clubs and often offers no link to purchase tickets.)

Anyone else got a dream?

Comments

[Stephanie Agresta]

Love your fantasy app. It would be great if it was targeted by vertical as well - IE tech conferences, etc.

Thanks for your support and for watching the videos!

Cheers,
stephanie

[Matthew Quint]

Thanks, Stephanie. I completely agree about the vertical event categories, that was my thought as well.

Good work on helping to execute the Fantasy App effort!