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So
we covered how the Channels work on the Zipper to help
you narrow focus your choice of local news and local
gossip but what about locations... how are the different
from the channels. Although the drop down title is
pretty self-explanatory, let's get into the the power
that Locations add to the Zipper's functionality. See,
news is just like real estate...location location
location.
When
you look at any of the main screens in the Zipper local
news and local gossip app, you'll see the Channel and
Location drop down. The default location can be chosen
through your settings but it will probably be "Ur
Location" or "Ur High School" since these are common
uses. TO understand how the locations work, let's take
a quick tour through the Zipper itself and what's it's
good for. The Zipper is an app that brings you the
information you want to know. Local news and local
gossip from everyone to everyone. It's that simple.
Look, you have your Facebook friends and your Twitter
follows but that doesn't tell you 99% of what's
happening right around the corner, the block, or the
school you're currently sitting in. That's a different
relationship and the best way to get that info fast is
from individual eye-witnesses at the location. They
shoot up the info as a Zip, other people
confirm/deny/refine the message and popularity keeps it
there till no one's really interested in it anymore.
That's the Zipper in a nutshell. Now you can see why
Location is important.
The
Location allows you to funnel all the information in the
Zipper to a size that's useful to you. Maybe you really
do want to see all the news from your area. Fine. Set
the location to "All" but what if you only want to know
what's going on with your High School? Everything from
whether Mr. Jones is have a test to where the seniors
are meeting after school for big picture. The beauty of
building the Zipper as a smart phone app is that it can
partially figure out where you are. It will track the
news according to your location. That brings up a
helpful shift you can make with your Location finder.
Maybe you're out of town and you want to know what's
going on downtown in your new city. You can force the
location to "Current Location" so that it will not
reference news from back home. Maybe you want to check
back on what's going on there while you're away. Fine.
Switch back to "Ur Location" to get back into the local
swing of things. You can see how Location becomes a
useful tool just with the pre-set options in the system
but that's only the beginning.
We
didn't want to just stop there with Zipper. We built
the ability to create private locations where you can
invite you're friends, schoolmates, office workers, etc
to join and have a private venue for just your
messages. These locations are passcode protected (alpha
numeric) so you can control who gets access to this
information. As the creator of the Zipline, you can
even change pass codes if need be. Just make sure to
shoot this new passcode out to the people want to you
find it. Finally, privacy in messaging from smart
phones is here. No more snooping siblings, parents, and
coworkers through your standard text messages.
Locations are way to narrow down all the local news and
local gossip to specific areas so give it a spin. Zip
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