Now that GPS is becoming standard on mobile phones, more and more applications are taking advantage of the big-brother-like feature. Here are two examples:
Loopt – Loopt is a cool app that can show you where your friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive, Google-like maps on your mobile phones. Users can also share location updates, geo-tagged photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online social networks (like Twitter & Facebook), communities and blogs.
Foursquare – the new kid on the block, Foursquare is putting Google’s
Dodgeball on the antique road show. Similar to Dodgeball, Foursquare will tell your friends where you are whenever you “check-in” to a venue in any of 12 US cities. Plus, for every “check-in”, you earn points which in turn earn you badges, like the “Bender Badge” for going out 4 nights in a row, or the “Local Badge” once you’ve been to the same place three times in one week. Keep an eye on this one – I predict it’s going to become very popular, very quickly.
Loopt – Loopt is a cool app that can show you where your friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive, Google-like maps on your mobile phones. Users can also share location updates, geo-tagged photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online social networks (like Twitter & Facebook), communities and blogs.
Foursquare – the new kid on the block, Foursquare is putting Google’s Dodgeball on the antique road show. Similar to Dodgeball, Foursquare will tell your friends where you are whenever you “check-in” to a venue in any of 12 US cities. Plus, for every “check-in”, you earn points which in turn earn you badges, like the “Bender Badge” for going out 4 nights in a row, or the “Local Badge” once you’ve been to the same place three times in one week. Keep an eye on this one – I predict it’s going to become very popular, very quickly.
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