{"id":16110,"date":"2012-07-21T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2012-07-21T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T21:35:20","slug":"not-everything-can-be-coordinated-in-cyberspace-when-you-gotta-move-dont-take-a-turn-without-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16110\/not-everything-can-be-coordinated-in-cyberspace-when-you-gotta-move-dont-take-a-turn-without-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Not everything can be coordinated in cyberspace. When you gotta move, don&#8217;t take a turn without Twist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TwistScreenshot-200x300.png\" alt=\"Twist screen shot\" title=\"Twist screen shot\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" \/>Cathleen and I have been playing with a new iPhone app called <a href=\"twist.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twist<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/twist-mobile-tracking-stalking-peeps\/#utm_source=GeekWire+Daily+Digest&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=299c99ebc0-daily-digest-email\" target=\"_blank\">GeekWire<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What is it? In the shortest possible summary, Twist is ETA software. You tell it where you&#8217;re going, it tells you and the people you&#8217;re meeting there when you will arrive. Or they can tell you when they will arrive, so you don&#8217;t waste time thumb-twiddling. ETA is calculated on your actual motion, so it doesn&#8217;t tell anyone anything until you actually hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>Twist integrates with iCal (which integrates with Google Calendar). It will tell you when you need to leave for an appointment so you won&#8217;t be late.<\/p>\n<p>It also taps into your contact database, so you can select any destination you already know about. Twist keeps track of your past destinations, so reusing them is a breeze. And you can set up favorite destinations you use all the time (like your home or office), adding in the contacts associated with that site, for one-touch Twisting. (Realtors: Think about how many times you go back to a house you have listed or put under contract.)<\/p>\n<p>And it integrates with Google Maps to give you driving directions and real-time progress updates on your travels. I don&#8217;t use GPS, and I&#8217;m off-the-charts kinesthetic, so this is more gee-whiz fun for me that something I need, but the people on the other end can track my mapping, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the PR movie for Twist, which for some reason is focused on dating:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45586803\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Who (besides nervous daters) can use Twist? Happily-committed couples; if you&#8217;re cheating, Twist will tell on you. Bosses with drivers on the road, stipulating that the ability to supervise creates a liability for failure to supervise. And: Real estate professionals. Twist makes it easy to plan your day, to coordinate with clients, vendors and other team members &#8212; and to tell your spouse and kids when they might expect to see you again.<\/p>\n<p>What would I change in the software?<\/p>\n<p>I want every event in my calendar to be Twisted automatically, in the background, without my intervention. Moreover, I want the calendar integration to be more heuristic: It it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16110\/not-everything-can-be-coordinated-in-cyberspace-when-you-gotta-move-dont-take-a-turn-without-twist\/#more-16110\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathleen and I have been playing with a new iPhone app called Twist. (Hat tip: GeekWire.) What is it? In the shortest possible summary, Twist is ETA software. You tell it where you&#8217;re going, it tells you and the people you&#8217;re meeting there when you will arrive. Or they can tell you when they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379,5,440,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-innovation","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-smartphones","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":853,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/853\/twisted-minds-was-businessweek-bamboozled-by-bubble-blogstress\/","url_meta":{"origin":16110,"position":0},"title":"Twisted minds: Was BusinessWeek bamboozled by bubble-blogstress?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Was a big-time Sixth Avenue media giant flim-flammed by a Gilbert, AZ, housewife, nom de guerre \"Twist,\" who has set herself up as an authority on the residential real estate market and its feverishly-sought collapse? 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