Requests in Real Time

Imagine this situation: You're at work and you're eating lunch. You chip your tooth and you realize that you need to see a dentist immediately. What can you do if you don't have a dentist nearby that you can call?

Peerviders is an application that allows friends to review and recommend service providers to others that they know and trust. With that said, you can log into Facebook, open your Peerviders application and scan through your list of friends to see if anyone you know has a dentist that they would recommend. If they have one, great! Search, over.

What I'm more interested in is the situation when none of your friends has a dentist to recommend. Right now, the application allows for you to ask a friend that might be able to help, but there is a time-lag with regard to the amount of time it will take for your friend to respond.

Good news - Facebook just announced that applications can now include invites via the Facebook Chat feature. Check this article out - http://mashable.com/2009/03/05/facebook-chat-invites

We're starting to look into how this will work for Peerviders.

Now imagine you chip that tooth, log into Facebook, nobody has a dentist to recommend, but you look at your friends who are currently online. You will be able to send a Peerviders invite via chat and get that recommendation in real time. Pretty cool huh?

Keep your eye out for this new feature in the future, I know I'll use it. Will you?