WEBVTT - Connect With Your Neighbors Using These Apps

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<v Speaker 1>The apps that connect you with your neighbors. I'm rich

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<v Speaker 1>jamiro This is Rich on Tech daily. Between high speed

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<v Speaker 1>internet and Wi Fi cameras, our homes are better connected

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<v Speaker 1>than ever, But what about our neighborhoods. Sure Facebook is

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<v Speaker 1>great for connecting us to all the people we know,

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<v Speaker 1>but think about the homes in your neighborhood. You probably

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<v Speaker 1>know your neighbors to the left and to the right,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe the person across the street, but go down a

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<v Speaker 1>few houses, you probably don't know them. Or maybe over

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<v Speaker 1>a few streets that's still your neighborhood, but you don't

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<v Speaker 1>really know those people.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, there's a whole bunch of.

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<v Speaker 1>Apps that can connect you with the folks in your

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<v Speaker 1>neighborhood for lots of reasons. Number one is crime, but

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<v Speaker 1>there's many other uses of these apps, including if you

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<v Speaker 1>want to get a recommendation for a service provider.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a good use, or maybe you just want to

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<v Speaker 2>sell your stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>How easy is it for someone down the street to

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<v Speaker 1>just collect an old bed that you have or a sofa?

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<v Speaker 1>First off, let's start with nextdoor. This is a social

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<v Speaker 1>network for your neighborhood. So maybe you've gotten an invitation

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<v Speaker 1>for it maybe you're already on there, or maybe you

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<v Speaker 1>don't use it that much even though you have an account.

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<v Speaker 1>This one could be really handy, and this is probably

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<v Speaker 1>like one of the best use case scenarios of the Internet,

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<v Speaker 1>because the deal is it's connecting you to people that

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<v Speaker 1>are nearby. These are the people that are in your neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 1>They're day in, day out seeing what's going on. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's good to chat with these people because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're exchanging information like back in the old days, except

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<v Speaker 1>now it's all online. So when you make a post,

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<v Speaker 1>you can make it seen by just like your immediate neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 1>or you can expand it out to include other neighborhoods

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<v Speaker 1>around you. And the categories they have that are pretty

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<v Speaker 1>popular include recommendations, So these are things like, hey, I

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<v Speaker 1>had this plumber, he was great, use them for your

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<v Speaker 1>house items, for sale events, so anything locally that's happening,

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<v Speaker 1>and of course crime. When we talk to the company,

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<v Speaker 1>they said they work with a bunch of agencies like

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<v Speaker 1>local and official agencies, so they post a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>stuff to the neighborhoods as well. So if you're on

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<v Speaker 1>these for any reason at all, if you want to

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<v Speaker 1>get into your community or more involved. This is a

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<v Speaker 1>great way to do just that. Now, I see a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of crime posts on here, so it's a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of that stuff. And it's a lot of kind of

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<v Speaker 1>things like Hey, did you just hear that sound down

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<v Speaker 1>the street?

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<v Speaker 2>Or why is there a helicopter flying over our neighborhood?

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<v Speaker 2>So it's a lot of that stuff. It's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>like a real time conversation with your neighbors.

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<v Speaker 1>Next Door says they do their best to verify that

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<v Speaker 1>people live in the neighborhood that they sign up for,

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<v Speaker 1>and they do that in several ways. First off, you

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<v Speaker 1>can get a referral from someone that lives in the

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<v Speaker 1>neighborhood that's already signed up. They might mail you a postcard,

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<v Speaker 1>they might do a phone call, but either way, they

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<v Speaker 1>want you to use your real name when possible, and

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<v Speaker 1>they also want you to list as much of your

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<v Speaker 1>address as possible, so at least at the very least.

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<v Speaker 2>It will say your name and your street.

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<v Speaker 1>Some people even opt to put their exact house number

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<v Speaker 1>on there as well. The company says they do this

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<v Speaker 1>because by using the real name and a verified address,

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<v Speaker 1>they think it helps people become a little bit better

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<v Speaker 1>than all the anonymous stuff that's out there on the internet.

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<v Speaker 1>So nextdoor dot com that's the first one. Now let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk about a new future from Ring. And I was

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<v Speaker 1>just taking a walk in my neighborhood yesterday and I

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<v Speaker 1>can't believe how many people have these Ring video doorbells.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually I can because I'm a big fan of them.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they're really cool and they're everywhere. So now

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<v Speaker 1>Ring has a new feature in their app. It's called

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<v Speaker 1>Ring Safe Neighborhoods, and what they do is they actually

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<v Speaker 1>let you share the videos that you're collecting with these

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<v Speaker 1>Ring video doorbells, so you can share a little snippet

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<v Speaker 1>of a clip to this sort of social network that's

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<v Speaker 1>inside the app.

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<v Speaker 2>You can also create text.

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<v Speaker 1>Posts as well, but a lot of people use this

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<v Speaker 1>to share their videos and also screenshots from the videos

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<v Speaker 1>of things happening, basically crimes happening in their neighborhood or

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<v Speaker 1>even weird stuff. You know, we see a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>things happen on these cameras nowadays, so people are just

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<v Speaker 1>sharing anything that's interesting. When we talk to Ring, they

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<v Speaker 1>say their mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods and

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<v Speaker 1>they've done that.

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<v Speaker 2>With products like their video doorbell.

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<v Speaker 1>They also have these really cool floodlight cams as they're called,

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<v Speaker 1>and these are really neat because it's a floodlight. So

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<v Speaker 1>if you already have the wiring for a floodlight on

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<v Speaker 1>the side of your house, well, you can easily connect

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<v Speaker 1>the Ring floodlight cam and now you have floodlights with

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<v Speaker 1>a video cam as well. So that's an easy way

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<v Speaker 1>to get the security of a camera without adding a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of wires to your house. The ney thing about

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<v Speaker 1>the Ring Neighborhoods app is that you don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>have a Ring product to use it, so you can

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<v Speaker 1>actually just sign up for the app and you can

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<v Speaker 1>set your neighborhood and set a radius around your home

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<v Speaker 1>and then you can see the videos that people are

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<v Speaker 1>sharing nearby.

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<v Speaker 2>Ring CEO and founder Jamie Simmonov, a very nice guy

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, says it's a positive.

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<v Speaker 1>Way for neighbors to come together around something that really matters,

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<v Speaker 1>which is making neighborhoods safer. And by the way, right

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<v Speaker 1>after we recorded our interview with Jamie, the news broke

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<v Speaker 1>a couple days later that Amazon purchased Ring for like

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<v Speaker 1>a reported one billion dollars, so expect to see many

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<v Speaker 1>more ring video doorbells in your neighborhood in the near future.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks so much for listening. I'm Rich Damiro. I'll talk

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<v Speaker 2>to you real soon.