With Helio and now Boost Loopt, map sharing is on the rise
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As text messages, map sharing is another tool to communicate in a snap. We know, it takes down the charm of taking 20 minutes to describe a place, but it’s the ‘Mobile 2.0‘, as described Daniel Appelquist. And after Helio, the MVNO targeting young adult consumers, who launched its cellphone with GPS and Drift service to let users localize each other, there’s another service to jump in that trend: Boost Loopt, a service provided by Loopt and Boost Mobile.
Through the phone, it automatically updates the location of everyone in a private network of Boost customers and displays that information directly on a map on the phone. Customers could be alerted whenever a friend enter their zone — and we guess alarms could work as well for your enemies. A Java-based application is nevertheless required to use the service. But it should be work on pretty much every modern cellphones.
We also expect some geo-localization game to take off when those technologies would bundle every cellphone users.
Nov 14, 2006 | By Nuno
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