Schemer
Google doesn't stop these days. A few days ago, it has published a new web service with an application included focused on discovering the environment and discovering new things to do It is called Schemer, and it is developed by a group of engineers from the company of Mountain View For now it is not fully operational, but there are already some details circulating on the Internet that we can comment on.
According to the developers themselves, who presented the service through the social network Google+, it is a service exchange ideas or schemes that you want to do such as watch all the Christofer Nolan movies, for example . In this way, it is possible to find recommendations of ideas or schemes from friends, from other users, or post genuine ideasand own to share with other people.
It is not unreasonable to think that this is an application created to compete directly against Foursquare, since it is based on the GPS technology to locate activities and leisure offers In addition, the application remembers the made schemes and proposes others related by taste as suggestions.And to make it an even more social service, it integrates with Google+ to be able to publish what you want to do, or what you done, and find new users.
Also, in order to give push force to this service, Google has partnered with several brands that propose advertising activities or schemes. Among the 17 named by engineers from Google in the announcement of this service stand out National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Bravo, Lifehacker, IGN, Bravo or Entertainment Weekly All your profiles are you can visit to learn the suggestions of things to do that they offer
For now this service is not public It is in private beta phase , so you need to receive an invitation to create a profile and start discovering activities nearby.Google has already enabled a web page where you can sign up for a waiting list to receive an invitation . In addition, the Android mobile application has already been published on the Android Market, although it is still It is not available for our country.
