{"id":8605,"date":"2014-03-27T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2014-04-28T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:49:28","slug":"firechat-and-wireless-mesh-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/firechat-and-wireless-mesh-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"FireChat and Wireless Mesh Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/271225\/appreciated-ios-7-feature-will-change-world\/\">Mike Elgan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/271225\/appreciated-ios-7-feature-will-change-world\/\"><p>A curious download hit Apple&rsquo;s app store this week: a messaging app called <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/firechat\/id719829352?mt=8\">FireChat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a new kind of app because it uses an iOS feature unavailable until version 7: the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/ios\/documentation\/MultipeerConnectivity\/Reference\/MultipeerConnectivityFramework\/Introduction\/Introduction.html\">Multipeer Connectivity Framework<\/a>. The app was developed by the crowdsourced connectivity provider <a href=\"https:\/\/opengarden.com\/\">Open Garden<\/a> and this is their first iOS app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But here&rsquo;s the really big deal &mdash; it can enable two users to chat not only without an Internet connection, but also when they are far beyond WiFi and Bluetooth range from each other &mdash; connected with a chain of peer-to-peer users between one user and a far-away Internet connection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2014-04-28): <a href=\"http:\/\/edgecasesshow.com\/089-multiple-connectivity-is-a-terrible-name.html\">Edge Cases 89<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/edgecasesshow.com\/089-multiple-connectivity-is-a-terrible-name.html\"><p>Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about Apple&rsquo;s new promising but troubled Multipeer Connectivity framework and his new app that takes advantage of it: Rumor Monger.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Elgan: A curious download hit Apple&rsquo;s app store this week: a messaging app called FireChat. It&rsquo;s a new kind of app because it uses an iOS feature unavailable until version 7: the Multipeer Connectivity Framework. The app was developed by the crowdsourced connectivity provider Open Garden and this is their first iOS app. [&#8230;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,826,31,469,26,476],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-firechat","tag-ios","tag-ios7","tag-iosapp","tag-networking"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}