Oh my gosh. I have just read about a new service that allows a person to track where their friends are through their cell phones. It is a new social network site that was just released in Barcellona, Spain and is called “Gypsii”. So, you could be in California and your friend, Sam, could be in New York. You could then track him on a little map on your cell phone. The map they showed on the article had a bunch of pins pointing to where the “friends” were at that time. It looked as if when you scrolled over the pin, the name of the friend would pop up as well as their location. This information could also be transferred to your facebook or myspace page to share with other friends if one was so inclined.
The article, “'Friend locator' could become next craze for social networkers,” said that Gypsii was only available for “top-end phones,” which I assume to be the blackberries and iphones. In any case, one can be pretty sure that it won’t be long before this technology will be available to every kind of phone and eventually become affordable.
My thing that I love is new technology. Social networking is a newer technology that has its benefits. What I love about this Gypsii software is that it allows people to see where their friends are, say, if one is going out on the town and wants to meet up with their peeps. They can just view their map and see that everyone is at the local pub or that Nick is having an impromptu party at his house (hopefully you were invited or they just forgot!).
I thought this was a pretty cool article. Here is the link if you want to check it out for yourself.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080213/tc_afp/lifestyleinternettelecomsocial2_080213172258
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