This web site is a place holder for an idea. A record in cyberspace of the idea "ifiMob". An ifiMob is like a flash mob, but synchronized via wifi.
I was washing pots while listening to music on my iPhone when this idea sprang from the æther. The iPhone hardware could support anybody within wifi range of my iPhone listening to the same music I was hearing. A bittorrent-like protocol could be used to share my music stream with others, simultaneously sharing their streams. We could have as many wifi radio stations as there were people in the room, with each DJ's voice passed along with his channel, and with listeners' voices (individually blockable) mixed with the channel they're listening to. The list of stations could have a rhythm pulse for each one, so you could see people dancing and match the beat to their station.
This could use the computer-to-computer networking capabilities of wifi, something most people never use. Or it could go through a local wireless router, as usual. I don't know the technical details, but it seems to me that the iPhone has the hardware to do it. There's music input, voice input, sound output, and wifi networking. All the rest is a simple matter of programming. Assuming we can convince Apple to open up the iPhone enough to let it be done. Or get them to do it.
2 July, 2007
imacpr0n at gmail dot com