URL: http://www.meetnowlive.com
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Meet Now Live is a real-time, location based, mobile social network in and around New York City. Our members use their mobile phones to broadcast their current location as they party in the city…
… Use Meet Now Live to find bars, parties and people partying in New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Hoboken, Jersey City, The Jersey Shore AND the Hamptons. … “
URL: http://www.locr.com
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locr is a revolutionary photo sharing community. At locr, our users can not only upload their photos, they can also geotag them. We offer users from around the world to link their photos to location information. locr auto-tags images with GPS data, displays their position on digital maps and creates information concerning motif and location.
But there is more to it than that. Photos are memories of moments that you like to capture and share. They get friends and families together that are spread all over the world. Everyone should therefore be able to share their favorite images with other…”
URL: http://www.trapster.com
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Trapster® users share the location of police speed traps by simply clicking their mobile phones. It uses your phone’s GPS and Internet to alert you as you approach reported traps…”
URL: http://www.iPling.com
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Excerpt from the website : “…iPling is a location based expansion engine that allows you to discover and communicate with people that share your interests. As an engine powers a car to a destination, iPling powers your social expansion in any direction you choose. You can use iPling to search for those that share your background, music tastes, passion for blogging or anything else you can dream up…”
URL: http://www.whereis.com/everyone
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Excerpt from the website : “…Whereis Everyone lets you find where your friends, colleagues and family members are. They just need to have a Telstra mobile phone with them because that’s how we find their location. Of course it’s possible they may not be carrying their phone, so you need to keep that in mind….”
URL: http://www.trackut.com
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Excerpt from the website : “…Trackut is a New Innovative Concept in Social Networking.
With Trackut you can not only keep in touch with your friends but you can actually track them on the map. You have always wanted to meet one of your friend who has been tough to catch. With Trackut you can be alerted if he comes to your locality.
The communities and groups now can have physical location details associated with it. You were a member of the Coffee Day community but you always wondered where is the nearest coffee day near you. Trackut can help you find it as the community would have location details in addition to the normal chit chat. And the best thing about this is that you can do all this in your mobile phone in addition to the normal web interface.
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URL: http://www.bliin.com
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Excerpt from the website : “…bliin is a social networking provider enabling mobile and online location-aware content, community and commerce.
bliin participates in the European Space Agency’s Technology Transfer Programme
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URL: http://www.Groovr.com
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Excerpt from the website : “…groovr is based in Los Angeles, California and was created in an effort to keep a group of friends connected while out hitting LA hotspots. The groovr goal is to help people stay connected, not just online, but out in life too. We want our users to move seamlessly from laptop to mobile phone to meeting new friends in new places...”
URL: http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html
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Excerpt from the website : “…With Google Latitude, you can:
* See where your friends are and what they are up to
* Quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call
* Control what your location is and who gets to see it
Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, PC, or both.
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URL: http://tapulous.com/twinkle
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Excerpt from the website : “…Twinkle, Twinkle Little App, Posting Tweets Is Now A Snap
Discover, connect, and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account. Contact old friends and make new ones, all with Twinkle, the location-aware network for the iPhone and iPod Touch…”
URL: http://www.citysense.com
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Excerpt from the website : “…Citysense was built to show you where the action is, right now.
Using a billion points of GPS and WiFi positioning data from the last few years – plus real-time feeds – Citysense sees S.F. from above and puts the top live hotspots in your hand. You don’t even need to sign up, just go to citysense.com on your BlackBerry, download, and open.
How does Citysense work?
Citysense is an application that operates on the Sense Networks Macrosense platform, which analyzes massive amounts of aggregate, anonymous location data in real-time. Macrosense is already being used by business people for things like selecting store locations and understanding retail demand. But we asked ourselves: with all this real-time data, what else could we do for a city? Nightlife enhancement was the obvious answer. This release is just a test, and we’re interested in your feedback on how to make the application better. You’ll find a feedback button in Citysense….”
URL: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/index.html
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Twittelator Pro complete iPhone twitter client by the creative folks of Big Stone Phone Company
Twittelator Pro is a new application for your iPhone that you can download from the App Store on your iPhone and begin following people and posting Twitters & photos.
And if you are in an emergency, simply click the Emergency icon to create a Tweet with a map of your current location!”…
URL: http://www.wenear.com
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weNear is a location aware mobile application that will keep you connected to all your favorite people and stuff when they get nearby.
weNear delivers your messages to nearby people. weNear lets you grasp opportunities once they are nearby
weNear has a server with robust API that enables developers to create a variety of location aware applications.
Get Involved and start building your own applications using weNear”
URL: http://www.spotadventures.com
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SHARE YOUR ADVENTURE NOW
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* Track and share your adventures with family and friends – or with the entire world
* Search adventures and plan your next destination
* Meet other interesting adventurers
* Add cool map widgets to your blog or website
* Automatically GeoTag your photos using GPS
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URL: http://www.pocketlife.com
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Pocket Life puts your Social Life on the Map
Pocket Life let’s you communicate with your friends, share your location, favourite places and photos via the web or from your mobile phone
* Share your location: Let people know where you are and find your friends to meet up
* Complete privacy:Be in full control of when and who you share your location with
* Find and share:Discover the best places nearby and share your favourites
* Keep in touch:Have your contacts’ latest information, send photos and messages …. “
URL: http://www.icloseby.com
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Walk by any hotspot and your iFob will light up if there are other iFob users inside. Sit down in any hotspot, and iFob will become your beacon, sending out a local signal which says you might want company. Or set your copy of iFob so it just listens, showing you the other iFob users while letting you chose whom you might want to chat with.
BROADCAST YOUR PROFILE »
With iFob there are no requirements and no logins. You change your profile instantly, as often as you want…. “
URL: http://www.qlique.com/
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Qlique’s unique games and activities promote lively exchanges while connecting you with people who are nearby and have common interests… “
URL: http://www.mapme.com
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Create a Map of your favorite places, travels or destinations
Start a Community map where everyone can add Locations, Pics & Videos
Share your Map with your friends or the whole world… “
URL: http://www.findbyclick.com
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Excerpt from the website : “… We want to build a community of people interested in sharing location-based information for the mutual benefit of all. For others, it is a way to share memorable places: a great place to eat, a hot vacation destination, or a special place to watch the sunset. FindbyClick is a place where you get to tell the story…. “
I considered starting with the Fourth Amendment, even though GPS technology didn’t exist in 1791. Not entering into a legal discussion my first impression is that the emphasis here is on personal security. That’s when I remembered my first digital camera and my wife being terrified to put pictures of our kids on the web. It wasn’t about privacy, but about the reasonable expectancy of keeping our kids secure and avoiding people delving into our lives.
I believe this is the paradox of social networks in general and those based on location in particular. I want to make my information public but at the same time I want to keep the information secured (actually not the information but myself).
Looking over the other side of the table, the value of a social network resides on the information you provide. The lack of privacy is one of the pillars that sustain the business models of many, if not all, social networks. When privacy issues are raised, we usually ask what the companies are doing to protect their customers. Expecting the companies to protect your privacy is like expecting the cat to safeguard the cream; this is the fuel for their business. It’s not the companies that need to protect the information, rather YOU the customer.
I reviewed the privacy policies of more than 20 location based social networks and personal locator devices. I recommend you to do so before you start posting When and Where you are doing your What and with Whom. But if we separate the concepts of Privacy and Security, I don’t think the Location Based Social Networks companies are the problem. Technology is usually neutral, users aren’t.
Personally I don’t mind if a company, in exchange for a service, collects information about my habits, locations, and other details IF before using that information ALL personal identification is completely deleted AND is never used to sell something back to ME. The fact I’m a public person and I share information, is not an invitation to invade my space. My space is on invitation ONLY. Once we agree on this principle, we can start talking about other technological barrier and safeguard such as location acquisition and capture, location notification and accuracy, location information accessibility, location history control, location ownership, etc.
Today as in 1791 Privacy and Safety are really a concern and privacy advocates have a central role in corporate LBS
Without any doubt, the accessibility of GPS technology is leading us to new types of communities and services. People participate in a virtual world without borders; People are part of virtual societies, sometime bigger than the population of many countries. Maybe “We the People” needs to virtually govern ourselves and establish the new social conduct standards for a completely different world.
So, where do you stand?
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