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madLush

Ran Tao

A mobile open-bar and drink special locator for your cell phone.

http://madlush.com

Classes

Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices

Keywords

cellphone, mobile,device, free, drinks, location-based, madlush, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing, geocode

Description

Have you ever wondered where to grab a free drink on the fly? madLush is here for you. You can send in text messages to madlush.com to find drink specials nearby on the fly, or to plan out your night in advance.

Personal Statement

Being a poor student in New York is difficult with all the expenditures from tuition to rent to food and to nightlife. There are always drink specials going on in the hundreds of thousands of bars located across the city, but rarely are people made aware of them. A few websites out there list good deals daily but sometimes you just want to know about deals on the fly.

Background

Who doesn't like Free?
Who doesn't like Free Drinks?

Audience

21+

User Scenario

See attached madLush wireframe for details.

In short user can txt in location, day, neighborhood and venue to get information back.
Location: @721 broadway
Location: @ houstan and ave b
Returns the nearest venues and special from that location

Day: fri
Returns specials for friday

Neighborhood: williamsburg
Returns venues with deals near williamsburg if there are any today

Venue: ?Lit
Returns address of Lit

Implementation

Because the project is for Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices, all dynamic code is written using PHP/Perl/SQL.

Conclusion

Learning PHP/Perl/SQL the brute force way is actually quite useful despite many frustrating days and nights. But it was all worth it,

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