Catch up with Cath: My Friend Harry created a Mobile App to help you on the Night Club Scene

9.14.2011

My Friend Harry created a Mobile App to help you on the Night Club Scene

This Saturday night, September 17, a new cross-platform nightlife application makes its debut on the social-media scene at The Estate nightclub, 1 Boylston Place, at 10 PM. ClubView is a unique new cloud app that aims to streamline your social life by connecting friends who are out on the town. To access ClubView, visit m.clubview.com from any mobile web browser and sign in via Facebook. Bookmark the page for easy use the next time around.

The application, conceived by Boston University graduate Harrison Macris back in November 2010, will connect people scattered across the city at different nightclubs, bars, and lounges. The application’s patent-pending software functions across different mobile platforms, using an algorithm to derive color-coded hotspots; one view of the map will instantly tell the user where people are planning on congregating that night. The application is a mobile web-app, meaning there is no downloading and no waiting to use it.

ClubView CTO and lead developer Elio Maggini explains, “Typical mobile offerings require discovery via an application store and a download/install process. Since ClubView is a browser-based mobile web-app, users are able to instantly access ClubView by browsing to m.clubview.com. We can also roll out new features more quickly than native applications since we don’t have to go through a store’s approval process.”

ClubView will run on an intuitive red light, yellow light, green light system. A yellow light shows friends where you are planning on going. A green light indicates that you have reached your destination. Red lights are reserved for checking out of venues. By glancing at the web-app on your phone, you and your friends will be able to pick out which spots are the hottest in the Hub on any given night.
The launch event, hosted this Saturday night at The Estate, will include free giveaways and entertainment by “New York’s hottest DJ,” DJ Chachi. Cover is FREE before 11 PM if you check in using the ClubView app.

“The ultimate goal of locational networking is to find friends and socialize together,” says Macris. For this reason, ClubView does not give out points for check-ins (as some other social apps do), but instead believes that a perfect night out with friends is the best form of reward. In the near future, Macris plans on expanding the app to other cities in the Northeast region. Stop playing, start partying. ClubView.

Chek out other ClubView press mentions:

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/09/01/boston-university-graduate-encourages-people-to-“stop-playing-and-start-partying”-with-clubview/

Check out my blogging from the 2008 MEDIA trip to Amman, Jordan

My senior year in high school, I traveled to the Hashemite Kingdom of Amman, Jordan through a Project Harmony student exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State and the United Palestinian Appeal in Washington D.C. The Media Efficiency and Democracy In Action (MEDIA) Program was implemented to encourage communication between American adolescents and Palestinian/Jordanian teenagers. "Overcoming Stereotypes" became one of the main themes of the trip, as everyone involved with the program was challenged to rise above religious and cultural differences.

The blog is still entact and can be viewed by going to http://www.projectharmony.org/ and clicking on "Programs." Go to programs in the country of Jordan, click on the MEDIA program, then click on "Program Web Forums," next click on "Media program Vlog," and go to pgs.33-42.