It’s a pole, and it’s made of ice

Last weekend Claire and I visited Ben and Suzette and Ben gave me a demo of Icy Pole, his P2P app for sharing music on blue-tooth enabled mobile phones. What he’s done so far looks awesome, and I can imagine it as a platform for all kinds of information exchange. The best bit about it is that there aren’t any costs (apart from battery drain) associated with setting up and exchanging information over this ad-hoc bluetooth network.

The term ‘icy pole’ (North American translation: ‘popsicle’) really amused me when I first arrived here; I suppose because it’s such a seemingly unaffected description I couldn’t imagine it as a sucessful product name.

I’ve started using XFN attributes in my posts, starting with this one, to provide a little candy for the Rubbot. I’ve also put in a Typepad feature request to enable XFN relationships within People Typelists. At the moment, people typelists are used as part of the data for generating a foaf file; adding the ability to nominate an XFN relationship to the person you’re adding to the typelist seems like a good match.

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