Wouldn't a telephone call to your friendly neighborhood izakaya would do the
trick? I mean if you wanted to know how crowded a place was wouldn't it be
good just to call?
Also, and forgive me if I'm wrong, if a place is popular, wouldn't it always
be popular? If its not popular at all, wouldn't the Japanese just avoid it
and go to the popular places? Just a thought.
Virgil
>
> So a friend and I were chatting the other day about our difficulty in
> making decisions about where to go on a particular Saturday night. There's
> a choice of parties and bars, but some have "off" evenings where few
> people show up, or not such a great crowd shows up, or whatever. He
> suggested that we needed webcams in our favourite dozen-or-two joints
> so that if someplace wasn't so hot, we could see if there was currently
> a better place to move to.
>
> This seems to me it would be an ideal i-mode application. While webcams
> are not practical, being able to get reports on the current state of the
> crowd at various places would be very cool. Getting data for input is
> an interesting problem, but perhaps the users themselves could report,
> with some sort of bonus offered (a chance for a free drink?) to encourage
> people to report in. There are various sorts of peer-reviwing systems
> already in use on the Internet that could help keep the quality of
> data high.
>
> Anybody have any interesting thoughts on this idea? Anybody want to
> steal it? :-)
>
> cjs
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