LBS LATAM 2010

Locatik – Location Based Social Network

URL: http://www.locatik.com

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Excerpt from the website : “… Welcome to Locatik!
Locatik is a mobile service telling you where your friends are and what they are up to.
Locatik is a communications tool and service, it allows you to share your thoughts and whereabouts with your friends and the world.
Locatik can be used via different channels, they will more or less have the same end effect…

Another Location Based Services – Social Networking Business Model – Old meet Web2.0

This article presents an additional business model associated with a Location Based Social Network, this time applied to a mature market – your automobile GPS devices and fleet management.

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buzzd – Location Based City Guide and Social Network

URL: http://buzzd.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “… buzzd is a location-sensitive city guide and social network on the mobile device. buzzd answers the question, “What’s going on around me right now? ™” by allowing consumers to get up-to-the minute information on what’s happening at any venue right now, rate events and connect with friends and other people in the area.

buzzd partners with carriers and content providers such as Helio, Virgin Mobile, Alltel, metroPCS, AT&T, Flavorpill, Time Out, ZAGAT, Metromix, Citysearch and many more. The company is based in New York City and backed by Monitor Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Blackberry Partners Fund, and Qualcomm Ventures. The company was founded by Nihal Mehta and Deepen Shah from ipsh!, the first mobile marketing agency in the U.S. which was acquired by Omnicom Group in 2005. … “

Buddy Beacon – Location Based Social Networking

URL: http://where.com/buddybeacon/

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Excerpt from the website : “… Looking to perk up your social life? Want to connect with friends while on the go? Then check out Buddy Beacon, the largest mobile friend-finding network.

A cool application that runs on mobile phones, Buddy Beacon allows friends to show each other exactly where they are and what they’re doing. It’s a fun and easy way to hook up when you’re out and about. You may never be bored again!

Buddy Beacon is available on many mobile phones, including iPhone, and allows you to connect with friends across different carriers. For the ultimate in friend-finding, you can even use Buddy Beacon with Facebook. There, you can manage everything related to Buddy Beacon – including your Buddy List and favorite places – from the comfort of your laptop.

And just so you know: Buddy Beacon is not a tracking application. Your location is updated only with your approval. … “

BuddyWay – Share your trips with friends

URL: http://www.buddyway.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “…
With our GPS cell phone tracking system you can:

• Track & save your trips
• Share them with friends
• View your trips in 3D in Google Earth
• Show friends your location…

Shizzow – Location Based Social Networking

URL: http://www.shizzow.com

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Excerpt from the website : “… Shizzow is a location-based social web service that we built with the goal of helping you build quality relationships through face-to-face interaction. Shizzow provides the technology for you to notify your friends of your location, with as little effort as possible, so you can spend more time hanging out with your peeps and less time trying to coordinate bringing them together through phone, email, SMS and IM …”

Geo-Me – LBSN – Explore Share Connect

URL: http://www.geo-me.com

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Excerpt from the website : “…Our vision is to provide our members with their choice of information on what is happening in their neighborhood as well as the choice to let others know where they are. This way everyone can shape the urban map of their city and share their views on their favourite places with their friends or the entire community –the choice is theirs!…”

ComeTogethr- Location Based Social Networking

URL: http://www.cometogethr.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “… cometogethr is a location-based social networking application that lets you join and create groups of people with mutual interests, view their location on the map, contact or meet them and share content.
No more constantly updating your buddy list, every new member of your groups is instantly displayed on the map both on mobile device and website.
The system consists of a GPS-enabled mobile phone or a mobile phone with an external Bluetooth GPS receiver, an installed cometogethr application, a website with a map client and backend servers…”

Spotjots – Social Blogging with Latitude

URL: http://www.spotjots.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “…Easily share your life as it happens, where it happens.
Let your friends and family experience and follow your life… as it happens. Share what you’re doing from the web, or capture your experiences in real-time using your phone. Social, in a spatial way…”

Jentro – Social Networking Suite

URL: http://www.jentro.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “…Jentro has a portfolio of world-class applications serving a broad array of horizontal and vertical markets. With our collaborative consultative approach, our experienced design team will work with you understand your business goals and objectives, design and recommend appropriate applications. Throughout this process, you will have access to the wealth of knowledge available from our extensive library of existing applications…”

Duzine – location based social-networking components

URL: http://www.duzine.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “… Beacon enables users to track, map, and share locations using their mobile device. We offer a selection of location based social-networking components that can be customized for specific vertical markets. The entire suite is available for private labeling and integration with your application…”

Mobilaris – Find your Buddy

URL: http://www.mobilaris.com

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Excerpt from the website : “… Find Your Buddy

Friends have more fun. Find your friends with your mobile without calling them. Get a notification if your best friend visits your neighborhood? Has your friends arrived to the cinema?

Find your buddy enable end-users to locate friends and other mobile users by mobile positioning. Find Your Buddy is fully compliant with applicable directives regarding privacy and therefore all users have full control of who is able to request his/her position at any given time…

Notify your new friends by sending them pictures and videos captured by your mobile phone while on the go. Share your moments!…”

Unype – Location Based Social Networking

URL: http://unype.com/

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Note: The site will launch mobile applications in Q1 2009

Excerpt from the website : “…Unype is a multi-user mirror-world for sharing your locations, photos, videos and models and for playing games inside Google Earth and Google Maps, with all social networks as entry points…. “

TownKings and TownQueens – European LBSN German and English

URL: http://www.townkings.de/start/index.html (in German)
URL: http://www.townqueens.com/start/queens_en.html (in English)

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Excerpt from the website : “…TownQueens is the network which connects you with others!
Organize your free time with your friends! Who is where today? Who has time today? And what’s up in your favorite club on the weekend? Sign in and reexperience your surrounding area!… “

Sniff – Social Network Integrated Friend Finder

URL: http://www.useful-networks.com/site/products/community/

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Excerpt from the website : “…sniff lets you instantly locate your friends in real-time, anytime, anyplace, using your mobile phone. Putting security and safety first, sniff also gives you total control over your privacy and how you share your location with others. What’s more, sniff integrates with Facebook and the world’s leading social networks. …”

Socialight – Location Based Social Network – Discover Places, Sharing experiences

URL: http://socialight.com/

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Excerpt from the website : “…What is Socialight?
Socialight lets you discover right here, right now information about places all around you. Simple.

The Sticky Note
The basic building block of Socialight is the Sticky Note- similar to a yellow Post-it note that you find at the office, except that it can contain text, images, audio and even video! Sticky Notes can be stuck to any location in the world and you can choose who can see yours…

Socialight Mobile
The best part about Socialight is using it on your cell phone. This lets you discover all kinds of things that are actually near to you! You can also make comments and rate the things you find as well as stick your own notes.
We can also notify you about the things that interest you so you never walk past something cool again!
You will never get spam because you control exactly what we send you!…”

Zintin – Location Based Social Networking

URL: http://www.zintin.com

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Excerpt from the website : “…zintin is a young start-up in the mobile phone apps space based in Silicon Valley. We are building an application for mobile phones which allows you to connect in new ways to your friends and the people around you.

Our team is made up of three Stanford computer science grad students. Harry Robertson specializes in algorithms and artificial intelligence. Indrajit “Indy” Khare specializes in gui design and user interaction. John Jersin specializes in networking, security and distributed systems…. “

IRL- Location Based Social Networking – integrated with MySpace and Facebook

URL: http://corp.irlconnect.com

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Excerpt from the website : “…Our product: IRL Connect

With our product IRL Connect we link virtual information and social context to physical space. By doing so, we create a social layer of the world. In practice this means that we take the user’s friends from their online social networks, show them on the map and support interaction….. “

MyGeoDiary – Location Based Social Networking

URL: http://www.mygeodiary.com

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Excerpt from the website : “…Abaqus’ MyGeoDiary service enables users to record, annotate, semantically organize and share their geotracks with any site on the web using a wide variety of positioning devices. MyGeoDiary service connects to a growing number of web apps such as Flickr (for photo geotagging), Blogspot (for direct post to blogs) etc. The service is also available as a SaaS platform (hosted APIs & Components) for business customers to launch their own Location-based social site. For e.g. It can be used by Bicycle, ATV, Snow Mobile, Motorcycle brands to build their own online social communities…. “

My list of Location Based Social Networking sites

I compiled a list of Location Based Social Networks I visited while researching for my previous posts. Per request of many readers I’m posting the list in a separate page.

The general impression I had after putting all of them together in one page, is that many of the LBSN are “me too” applications, and at this point I can’t pinpoint one that present a marketing message with a unique offer, a distinctive value proposition or main differentiators from the others. I included standalone sites, and applications that complement as add-on Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube, etc.

The directory is provided as “info only” without recommendations or endorsements. I’ll appreciate though, if you can review the list, and leave your comments.

The page is dated December 20, 2008. It would be interesting to review it in one year time and see if it grew, shrunk or consolidated.

For the list PRESS HERE or press the LBSN Links button in the top menu.

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