The SXSW Killer App will be “Is Scoble In This Room?”

Before I start, all my thanks to Tom Scott for this one. I came up with the original spark of an idea, and Tom picked up the gauntlet for the coding. Brickbats to me, bouquets to him, please!

Not to steal the thunder of companies like #Hashable, GroupMe or anyone else launching or debuting at South by Southwest, but there’s a bigger problem to be solved. So after the bolt of lightning moment, the thinking around the idea went a bit like this.

It seems to me that at SXSW interactive people either want to show Robert Scoble  a new application or service, or wanted to have a quiet pint without a million fanboys and girls descending on the prolific Scobleizer. Both of these problems were asking the same simple question, and one that can be answered easily with social media and the latest smartphones. Put simply… ‘Is Scoble in this room?‘"

So let’s answer that question for you.

Just point your browser at www.isscobleinthisroom.com and we’ll let you know just how close you are to your hero/nemesis (your choice).

A complicated problem, an elegant solution, a simple UI… surely this has all the hallmarks of “Killer App at SXSW?”