Jambo, Social Networking Tool at MWSF

I'll never forget the first Mac conference I attended where we all used SubEthaEdit to collaboratively take notes during presentations and lectures. It was exciting to see software used in such a refreshingly new way.%uFFFD The social aspect of working together to evolve a working document was fascinating to me.

And so I'm bummed that I won't be able to witness what Jambo Networks will be doing
at January's Macworld Expo. They've created an application that you can download to your computer which will help you to interact with other attendees.

"You can download the Jambo application to your PowerBook or iBook to discover other attendees you want to meet that are in proximity, wherever you happen to be. Jambo can detect like-minded attendees throughout Moscone Center, your hotel, the airport, or up to 5 or 6 blocks away from wherever you are. Jambo can even discover other attendees on your same airplane flight too, since Jambo works online and offline."

This is exciting. For me, Mac conferences have always been about social networking. I love meeting people that share my same passion and hobby. Anything that can help facilitate that social aspect of a conference is a plus i n my book. Perhaps one of our lucky TUAW bloggers attending the conference will do a review of the software during the conference [I look in Scott and Laurie's general direction].