I’m not sure that it can overcome such a problem already faced by Twiddler.

The people who get the most value out of Skydeck are those who make hundreds of phone calls a month and currently have no way of keeping track of those calls *at all*. They are typically lawyers, realtors, salespeople, executives, consultants, and business development people.

@Frank: you never have to give us the username and password for your cell phone account. You enter those into our toolbar, which retrieves your bills on our behalf and uploads them to Skydeck.

Jason

The pad thing looks pretty interesting – it’d be good to try to catch a real demo (but the idea of it sounds good)

Here’s another idea for mobile services, location-based specifically. The idea is using sensors on mobiles to “poll” certain conditions (whether it is UV, pollution, traffic, temperature, etc)

And I’ll say this again, if your company needs personal credentials to function, you can go fuck yourself.

Don’t ever ask for usernames/ passwords, we spent far to much time educating the consumer about this issue. Never again.

Here is my question is why would John Doe wants to find out who they have had communications with in the last few months or so? What users are gonna do with the social graphs that Skydeck system produced about their cell phone records? Does it help them optimize their phone bills , in which case is a good thing, because the system helps users save money or does it help them find out the number of calls that were made to John Doe over the last 6 months or so, in which case it is useless information to know about (zero value information)?

There is no obvious benefits to users in using Skydeck? Currently, users can just look at their monthly phone bills to see their phone records and perhaps if they wish, they can input that data into an excel file for book keeping or analysis. So, I fail to see the usefulness of such a service.

How will they make money and still have a philanthropic goal