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Meetro Announced for Nintendo DS, PSP!
A Chicago based Meetroduction, LLC has created the ultimate "breaking the  
ice" instant messenger program. This new instant messaging application is  
called Meetro (www.meetro.com) and is created by the team of CEO Paul  
Bragiel (current CEO of Paragon 5) and President Wendell Davis III  
(ex-producer of Cave Barn Studios). What makes Meetro a unique instant  
messenger is that it shows the proximity in miles how far away each user is  
from your location. Paul Bragiel explains, "Meetro is the new dynamic way to  
meet people local to you." Wendell Davis III states, "Meetro makes finding  
people within walking distance a breeze -- perhaps even a summer breeze." It  
will cater to people wanting to make friends in their new town and  
especially targeting college students who are dying to meet new friends  
(also a great way to procrastinate on that English paper). It allows users  
to have their picture and taglines, and also allows users to message people  
on AOL AIM and ICQ (MSN, Yahoo and Jabber are coming soon).
 
Features of Meetro include:
  a.. Instant Messenger program telling how far users are away from each  
other in miles.
 
  b.. Includes taglines, user pictures and an extensive customizable user  
profile.
 
  c.. The program has AIM, ICQ support. Yahoo support will come out later  
this month and MSN will be around the corner. Jabber support coming later.
As I mention before, Meetro was created by GBA developers. Paragon 5 created  
the top-down racer, Karnaaj Rally GBA, while Davis' experience includes  
Urban Yeti GBA by Cave Barn Studios (a very weird and off-beat game to say  
the least). What makes Meetro video game oriented is that it is now being  
developed for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable! Davis says, "We've  
entered an early stage of development for handheld console support, which  
includes both Sony PSP and Nintendo DS." Bragiel states, "We see the DS and  
PSP as platforms that were designed to be used for applications besides  
games. We want to bring social software to these machines." However, we won't  
see this technology implanted until summer 2006.
 
There is a lot of potential with this new Meetro IM program; however, there  
is still improvement to be made by Meetro staff to make it a must-used IM  
program. The team needs to improve their multi-functional IM support to make  
it to near the level of the Trillian program, and also needs a face-lift  
with new features like history page, more smilies, and other generic IM  
features. But the biggest improvement needs to be getting more people to use  
this program, especially business laptop users and university students - and  
hopefully the DS and PSP versions will help.
 
Final Thoughts:
There is a whole a lot to be agitated and excited about with the Meetro  
program. The obvious worry is that there is a whole competition in the IM  
industry and this program must find its market niche. Meetro is not up to  
par to their competitors with users and technology compared to their  
competitors just yet, but more updates should help them. The Meetroduction  
team can find their market niche with the businessmen with their laptops and  
college students as both of those markets are filled with tech savvy  
netizens. And the realm of video games, particularly Nintendo DS, should  
hold very interesting possibilities. Meetro could become the ultimate way to  
meet local people via the Internet.
 
Special Thanks to Wendell Davis III and Paul Bragiel of the Meetro team.

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This makes a lot of sense for the DS and I will prob pick this up
when/if it comes out, but I have to wonder how you will IM with a
PSP??  use the d-pad to select letters like you are entering a high
score in an old arcade game?  sounds impractical, sure you could plug
in a keyboard but then you may as well just use your desktop/laptop...
It will be interesting how this is worked out for the PSP.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:41:18 -0500, <Highlander> wrote:
 
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>http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EEkuFAyluAHuhWnZnZ.php
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>Meetro Announced for Nintendo DS, PSP!
>A Chicago based Meetroduction, LLC has created the ultimate "breaking the  
>ice" instant messenger program. This new instant messaging application is  
>called Meetro (www.meetro.com) and is created by the team of CEO Paul  
>Bragiel (current CEO of Paragon 5) and President Wendell Davis III  
>(ex-producer of Cave Barn Studios). What makes Meetro a unique instant  
>messenger is that it shows the proximity in miles how far away each user is  
>from your location. Paul Bragiel explains, "Meetro is the new dynamic way to  
>meet people local to you." Wendell Davis III states, "Meetro makes finding  
>people within walking distance a breeze -- perhaps even a summer breeze." It  
>will cater to people wanting to make friends in their new town and  
>especially targeting college students who are dying to meet new friends  
>(also a great way to procrastinate on that English paper). It allows users  
>to have their picture and taglines, and also allows users to message people  
>on AOL AIM and ICQ (MSN, Yahoo and Jabber are coming soon).
>
>Features of Meetro include:
>  a.. Instant Messenger program telling how far users are away from each  
>other in miles.
>
>  b.. Includes taglines, user pictures and an extensive customizable user  
>profile.
>
>  c.. The program has AIM, ICQ support. Yahoo support will come out later  
>this month and MSN will be around the corner. Jabber support coming later.
>As I mention before, Meetro was created by GBA developers. Paragon 5 created  
>the top-down racer, Karnaaj Rally GBA, while Davis' experience includes  
>Urban Yeti GBA by Cave Barn Studios (a very weird and off-beat game to say  
>the least). What makes Meetro video game oriented is that it is now being  
>developed for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable! Davis says, "We've  
>entered an early stage of development for handheld console support, which  
>includes both Sony PSP and Nintendo DS." Bragiel states, "We see the DS and  
>PSP as platforms that were designed to be used for applications besides  
>games. We want to bring social software to these machines." However, we won't  
>see this technology implanted until summer 2006.
>
>There is a lot of potential with this new Meetro IM program; however, there  
>is still improvement to be made by Meetro staff to make it a must-used IM  
>program. The team needs to improve their multi-functional IM support to make  
>it to near the level of the Trillian program, and also needs a face-lift  
>with new features like history page, more smilies, and other generic IM  
>features. But the biggest improvement needs to be getting more people to use  
>this program, especially business laptop users and university students - and  
>hopefully the DS and PSP versions will help.
>
>Final Thoughts:
>There is a whole a lot to be agitated and excited about with the Meetro  
>program. The obvious worry is that there is a whole competition in the IM  
>industry and this program must find its market niche. Meetro is not up to  
>par to their competitors with users and technology compared to their  
>competitors just yet, but more updates should help them. The Meetroduction  
>team can find their market niche with the businessmen with their laptops and  
>college students as both of those markets are filled with tech savvy  
>netizens. And the realm of video games, particularly Nintendo DS, should  
>hold very interesting possibilities. Meetro could become the ultimate way to  
>meet local people via the Internet.
>
>Special Thanks to Wendell Davis III and Paul Bragiel of the Meetro team.  
>

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So now I'm going to get spam in the middle of a game?