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Press event bingo on your iPhone
Are you excited for the Sept. 9 press event? Do you like to play bingo? Are you an iPhone application developer? Then this post was delivered from on high directly to your visual cortex.We've played bingo here on TUAW before. Who could forget iPhone Bingo or MWSF 2008 Bingo? Those were good times. Today, Ernst-Jan Pfauth at The Next Web wants to create a Let's Rock! bingo game, and he needs your help.
Forget PDFs, he wants a full iPhone application, and has posted some possible mock-ups on his site. It would be fun to play collaboratively over Wi-Fi or even upload additional cards for future events.
A web-based version is available here, but let's help Ernst-Jan realize his dream. iPhone developers -- can you give the guy a hand? And while we're at it... speaking of "limited utility..."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
joshua said 1:48PM on 9-08-2008
My favorite part of the mock-up is the upper-lefthand corner that says "T-Mobile." Ooops!
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Steve said 2:16PM on 9-08-2008
The dev could be from Germany, where T-Mobile is the iPhone carrier.
netgem21 said 2:28PM on 9-08-2008
He's in The Netherlands - T-Mobile is the iPhone network there.
Cameron said 2:11PM on 9-08-2008
Make a native iPhone application, test it, have it approved, and ready to download in one day?
I'm sure an iPhone developer would be happy to make this ... but give him/her a little warning.
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MarkM said 2:15PM on 9-08-2008
Jeez - TUAW continues it's downward spiral....
Please stop the anal polls - you are making yourself look like idiots.
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macxprt said 2:16PM on 9-08-2008
Boom! is the free square. Funny because it is a given he will say this.
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Marcos said 2:20PM on 9-08-2008
Well, not a lot of time to do a proper app, even if Apple would approve it. Jailbroken app? Nah.
If someone puts together a decent web app that might be fun.
Bingo!
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SubGenius said 2:44PM on 9-08-2008
Especially considering the time constraints a web app would be more appropriate.
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DJFriar said 4:12PM on 9-08-2008
It wouldn't be ready for tomorrow, but I think the mock up on this article is perfect.
And making it past the Apple censors would be easy: just make it a general Bingo app that can read cards from a server. It'd be approved, then just add the Apple event cards as applicable. :)
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Aaron said 4:44PM on 9-08-2008
Be great to write this as a generic app to be used for any event like this: political conventions, Apple events, corporate meetings, etc. Make it so the phrase choices are placed online as an XML file or something that you pull in from the app via a URL. And, yes, having it report winners online to a central scoreboard would a riot.
All the resources are there to do this. Could be fun.
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Shunnabunich said 10:34PM on 9-08-2008
I like the sound of this. :)
Perhaps a "description" attribute should be available in the XML for each item, so when the user holds their finger down on a square for a second, a bubble will pop up above it with a description or clarification, a la John Siracusa's Keynote Bingo cards.
Gary said 8:10PM on 9-08-2008
At the June keynote we had a drinking game with every time iPhone 3G was mentioned.
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Chuck Smith said 4:34AM on 9-09-2008
Great... now I expect to see 5 Bingo apps appear in the App Store in a week. :)
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Samuel said 10:53PM on 9-12-2008
Canny. An unstoppable web based version.
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