March 26, 2018 • 5 mins
A look at the social networking apps built with your neighborhood in mind - including a new feature from Ring that lets you share video clips from your doorbell cam with others nearby.Watch the TV segment:http://ktla.com/2018/03/26/connect-with-your-neighbors-using-these-apps/Follow Rich on Social Media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/RichOnTechTwitter: http://twitter.com/richdemuroInstagram: http://instagram.com/richontech
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
The apps that connect you with your neighbors. I'm rich
jamiro This is Rich on Tech daily. Between high speed
internet and Wi Fi cameras, our homes are better connected
than ever, But what about our neighborhoods. Sure Facebook is
great for connecting us to all the people we know,
but think about the homes in your neighborhood. You probably
know your neighbors to the left and to the right,
maybe the person across the street, but go down a
(00:26):
few houses, you probably don't know them. Or maybe over
a few streets that's still your neighborhood, but you don't
really know those people.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, there's a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Apps that can connect you with the folks in your
neighborhood for lots of reasons. Number one is crime, but
there's many other uses of these apps, including if you
want to get a recommendation for a service provider.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's a good use, or maybe you just want to
sell your stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
How easy is it for someone down the street to
just collect an old bed that you have or a sofa?
First off, let's start with nextdoor. This is a social
network for your neighborhood. So maybe you've gotten an invitation
for it maybe you're already on there, or maybe you
don't use it that much even though you have an account.
This one could be really handy, and this is probably
like one of the best use case scenarios of the Internet,
(01:08):
because the deal is it's connecting you to people that
are nearby. These are the people that are in your neighborhood.
They're day in, day out seeing what's going on. And
it's good to chat with these people because you know,
you're exchanging information like back in the old days, except
now it's all online. So when you make a post,
you can make it seen by just like your immediate neighborhood,
or you can expand it out to include other neighborhoods
(01:29):
around you. And the categories they have that are pretty
popular include recommendations, So these are things like, hey, I
had this plumber, he was great, use them for your
house items, for sale events, so anything locally that's happening,
and of course crime. When we talk to the company,
they said they work with a bunch of agencies like
local and official agencies, so they post a lot of
stuff to the neighborhoods as well. So if you're on
(01:50):
these for any reason at all, if you want to
get into your community or more involved. This is a
great way to do just that. Now, I see a
lot of crime posts on here, so it's a lot
of that stuff. And it's a lot of kind of
things like Hey, did you just hear that sound down
the street?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Or why is there a helicopter flying over our neighborhood?
So it's a lot of that stuff. It's kind of
like a real time conversation with your neighbors.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Next Door says they do their best to verify that
people live in the neighborhood that they sign up for,
and they do that in several ways. First off, you
can get a referral from someone that lives in the
neighborhood that's already signed up. They might mail you a postcard,
they might do a phone call, but either way, they
want you to use your real name when possible, and
they also want you to list as much of your
address as possible, so at least at the very least.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It will say your name and your street.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Some people even opt to put their exact house number
on there as well. The company says they do this
because by using the real name and a verified address,
they think it helps people become a little bit better
than all the anonymous stuff that's out there on the internet.
So nextdoor dot com that's the first one. Now let's
talk about a new future from Ring. And I was
just taking a walk in my neighborhood yesterday and I
can't believe how many people have these Ring video doorbells.
(02:58):
Actually I can because I'm a big fan of them.
I think they're really cool and they're everywhere. So now
Ring has a new feature in their app. It's called
Ring Safe Neighborhoods, and what they do is they actually
let you share the videos that you're collecting with these
Ring video doorbells, so you can share a little snippet
of a clip to this sort of social network that's
(03:19):
inside the app.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You can also create text.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Posts as well, but a lot of people use this
to share their videos and also screenshots from the videos
of things happening, basically crimes happening in their neighborhood or
even weird stuff. You know, we see a lot of
things happen on these cameras nowadays, so people are just
sharing anything that's interesting. When we talk to Ring, they
say their mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods and
(03:42):
they've done that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
With products like their video doorbell.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
They also have these really cool floodlight cams as they're called,
and these are really neat because it's a floodlight. So
if you already have the wiring for a floodlight on
the side of your house, well, you can easily connect
the Ring floodlight cam and now you have floodlights with
a video cam as well. So that's an easy way
to get the security of a camera without adding a
(04:05):
bunch of wires to your house. The ney thing about
the Ring Neighborhoods app is that you don't have to
have a Ring product to use it, so you can
actually just sign up for the app and you can
set your neighborhood and set a radius around your home
and then you can see the videos that people are
sharing nearby.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Ring CEO and founder Jamie Simmonov, a very nice guy
by the way, says it's a positive.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Way for neighbors to come together around something that really matters,
which is making neighborhoods safer. And by the way, right
after we recorded our interview with Jamie, the news broke
a couple days later that Amazon purchased Ring for like
a reported one billion dollars, so expect to see many
more ring video doorbells in your neighborhood in the near future.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Thanks so much for listening. If you like this podcast, be.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Sure to rate and review it in the Apple Podcasts
app Rich on tech dot tv for links to everything
I mentioned here.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Damiro. I'll talk
to you real soon.
The apps that connect you with your neighbors. I'm rich
jamiro This is Rich on Tech daily. Between high speed
internet and Wi Fi cameras, our homes are better connected
than ever, But what about our neighborhoods. Sure Facebook is
great for connecting us to all the people we know,
but think about the homes in your neighborhood. You probably
know your neighbors to the left and to the right,
maybe the person across the street, but go down a
(00:26):
few houses, you probably don't know them. Or maybe over
a few streets that's still your neighborhood, but you don't
really know those people.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well, there's a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Apps that can connect you with the folks in your
neighborhood for lots of reasons. Number one is crime, but
there's many other uses of these apps, including if you
want to get a recommendation for a service provider.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's a good use, or maybe you just want to
sell your stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
How easy is it for someone down the street to
just collect an old bed that you have or a sofa?
First off, let's start with nextdoor. This is a social
network for your neighborhood. So maybe you've gotten an invitation
for it maybe you're already on there, or maybe you
don't use it that much even though you have an account.
This one could be really handy, and this is probably
like one of the best use case scenarios of the Internet,
(01:08):
because the deal is it's connecting you to people that
are nearby. These are the people that are in your neighborhood.
They're day in, day out seeing what's going on. And
it's good to chat with these people because you know,
you're exchanging information like back in the old days, except
now it's all online. So when you make a post,
you can make it seen by just like your immediate neighborhood,
or you can expand it out to include other neighborhoods
(01:29):
around you. And the categories they have that are pretty
popular include recommendations, So these are things like, hey, I
had this plumber, he was great, use them for your
house items, for sale events, so anything locally that's happening,
and of course crime. When we talk to the company,
they said they work with a bunch of agencies like
local and official agencies, so they post a lot of
stuff to the neighborhoods as well. So if you're on
(01:50):
these for any reason at all, if you want to
get into your community or more involved. This is a
great way to do just that. Now, I see a
lot of crime posts on here, so it's a lot
of that stuff. And it's a lot of kind of
things like Hey, did you just hear that sound down
the street?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Or why is there a helicopter flying over our neighborhood?
So it's a lot of that stuff. It's kind of
like a real time conversation with your neighbors.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Next Door says they do their best to verify that
people live in the neighborhood that they sign up for,
and they do that in several ways. First off, you
can get a referral from someone that lives in the
neighborhood that's already signed up. They might mail you a postcard,
they might do a phone call, but either way, they
want you to use your real name when possible, and
they also want you to list as much of your
address as possible, so at least at the very least.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It will say your name and your street.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Some people even opt to put their exact house number
on there as well. The company says they do this
because by using the real name and a verified address,
they think it helps people become a little bit better
than all the anonymous stuff that's out there on the internet.
So nextdoor dot com that's the first one. Now let's
talk about a new future from Ring. And I was
just taking a walk in my neighborhood yesterday and I
can't believe how many people have these Ring video doorbells.
(02:58):
Actually I can because I'm a big fan of them.
I think they're really cool and they're everywhere. So now
Ring has a new feature in their app. It's called
Ring Safe Neighborhoods, and what they do is they actually
let you share the videos that you're collecting with these
Ring video doorbells, so you can share a little snippet
of a clip to this sort of social network that's
(03:19):
inside the app.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You can also create text.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Posts as well, but a lot of people use this
to share their videos and also screenshots from the videos
of things happening, basically crimes happening in their neighborhood or
even weird stuff. You know, we see a lot of
things happen on these cameras nowadays, so people are just
sharing anything that's interesting. When we talk to Ring, they
say their mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods and
(03:42):
they've done that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
With products like their video doorbell.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
They also have these really cool floodlight cams as they're called,
and these are really neat because it's a floodlight. So
if you already have the wiring for a floodlight on
the side of your house, well, you can easily connect
the Ring floodlight cam and now you have floodlights with
a video cam as well. So that's an easy way
to get the security of a camera without adding a
(04:05):
bunch of wires to your house. The ney thing about
the Ring Neighborhoods app is that you don't have to
have a Ring product to use it, so you can
actually just sign up for the app and you can
set your neighborhood and set a radius around your home
and then you can see the videos that people are
sharing nearby.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Ring CEO and founder Jamie Simmonov, a very nice guy
by the way, says it's a positive.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Way for neighbors to come together around something that really matters,
which is making neighborhoods safer. And by the way, right
after we recorded our interview with Jamie, the news broke
a couple days later that Amazon purchased Ring for like
a reported one billion dollars, so expect to see many
more ring video doorbells in your neighborhood in the near future.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Thanks so much for listening. If you like this podcast, be.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Sure to rate and review it in the Apple Podcasts
app Rich on tech dot tv for links to everything
I mentioned here.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Damiro. I'll talk
to you real soon.
Host
Rich DeMuro
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