{"id":47431,"date":"2016-02-04T21:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=47431"},"modified":"2016-02-04T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:37:39","slug":"flirting-app-confetti-chooses-eindhoven-during-carnival-as-a-test-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/flirting-app-confetti-chooses-eindhoven-during-carnival-as-a-test-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Flirting app Confetti chooses Eindhoven during carnival as a test location"},"content":{"rendered":"

This\u00a0can’t be a coincidence: an app called Confetti<\/a> that’s released in the days before carnival. And it isn’t, though in itself this is not a carnival-app. Confetti offers a simple radar that lets you see where other confetti users are located within a radius of 25 meters. The ideal app for a party, that’s\u00a0the idea. With this\u00a0app you can poke someone and make initial contact with a mutual interest. But the intention is that the contact quickly turns into face\u00a0to face conversations.<\/p>\n

\"Schermafbeelding<\/a>The\u00a0app was developed by Dutch Coding Company<\/a>, a young development company based in the incubator Startup at TU Eindhoven<\/a>. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe app comes from Reender Beks. He is the former CFO of Sapiens, the med-tech company in the High Tech Campus which was sold to Medtronic in 2014.<\/p>\n

The idea first popped up when Reender was a guest at a wedding feast. Since all guests were given a green, yellow or red sticker to indicate whether they were single, ‘it’s complicated<\/em>‘ or were occupied. The app uses the same colors to indicate the status of the user. At that point you can see the people around you as colored dots on a kind of radar screen. Hence the name Confetti.<\/p>\n

Because in order to really test the app, you needed many people who are close to each other, it was decided to test in one city – and do so during carnival. Since the app was developed in Eindhoven and the authors all have a link to this cit, the choice was clear where to start. If the test succeeds in Eindhoven (which means: if people like the app and the underlying technology is working), it will later be rolled out nationally and then internationally.<\/p>\n

Confetti can be downloaded here<\/a>. Currently only for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This\u00a0can’t be a coincidence: an app called Confetti that’s released in the days before carnival. And it isn’t, though in itself this is not a carnival-app. Confetti offers a simple radar that lets you see where other confetti users are located within a radius of 25 meters. The ideal app for a party, that’s\u00a0the idea. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":501662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[486],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-47431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-geen-categorie-en"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screenshot_2016-01-29-13-43-201.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Geen categorie<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Geen categorie<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 10 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 4, 2016","modified":"Updated on February 4, 2016"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 4, 2016 9:37 pm","modified":"Updated on February 4, 2016 9:37 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=47431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}