Sharing Awareness

FriendPhone

FriendPhone supports the sharing of information about location, time spent at location, phone profile, nearby peers. Before making a call FriendPhone users can quickly see where their friends are and who they are with. This allows them to form an opinion of whether it would be appropriate to make the call and, if they do, who else might be with the person they call. Additionally, information about the phone's profile (e.g. Silent, Loud, Vibrate) provides the caller the knowledge of whether any phone call they make will be heard or detected.

Watchbot

The Watchbot is an MSN bot that continually tracks when users sign on or off, and their status while they are logged in. Users can view graphs of when their friends where logged in, allowing them to see when their friends signed in at the start of the day, when they went for lunch, or at which periods of the day they were busy. The Watchbot also supports an MSN style status widget that can be placed on any web page, allowing non-MSN users to see the status of any friends who do use MSN messaging.

Binaries and Source

FriendPhone

FriendPhone, which runs on WM5 SmartPhones, may be downloaded here. The Visual Studio 2005 solution containing the FriendPhone source code can be found here.

Watchbot

The Visual Studio 2005 solution containing the Watchbot source code may be found here. Please note that a valid MSN account and password must be entered in the appropriate locations in the source before the Watchbot will work corretly.