Category — Location-Based Applications

Navizon MobiFindr For iPhone, Blackberry: Find Your Phone Or Your Friends With A Simple SMS

by Justin

Navizon, a peer-to-peer wireless positioning system, that uses a patented three prong system to pinpoint a location-WiFi hotspots, cell tower triangulation, and GPS-was released in an updated version last month and as part of that release came a new service called MobiFindr. At the time MobiFindr was released specifically for the iPhone and can locate the position of a mobile phone simply by sending an SMS to it. Unlike Navizon’s Buddy Finder which constantly updates the user’s location, MobiFindr only works when it receives an SMS with an attached password of your choosing. What’s this mean to you? It means that the new service has absolutely no effect on the battery life or performance of your mobile phone.

It’s a great application for locating a lost phone, or finding friends and family members in the great urban abyss of the continental United States. A free version derives location based on cell tower location giving a margin of error of 1500 meters. Not the best. Navizon’s premium version adds in WiFi hotspots for greater accuracy; both can be downloaded from Navizon’s website.

Yesterday the company announced that MobiFindr is now available for the Blackberry, and is totally free. Check out the demonstration vid above and look for the application to be compatible with Windows Mobile and S60 phones in the near future.

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July 17, 2008 No Comments

GottaPark: Another Bid By San Francisco To Streamline The Parking Process

by Justin

GottaPark Logo The city of San Francisco is determined to do away with unused parking spots and the time wasted looking for them. A new service, just launched a couple days back, called GottaPark matches up those with unused parking space with those looking for a parking spot. If you happen to be the owner of parking space in the city, you can register your lot with GottaPark along with rates and hours of availability. It costs the parking provider nothing and if that’s you, you’re responsible for setting your own rates. Those looking for parking can simply log onto the website via their laptop, PDA, mobile phone, etc., and search for parking near the location they’d like to park. They pay the rate determined by the parking provider plus an additional fee of $0.60 if the spot costs less than $5 and 15% of the spot costs more than $5.

via webworkerdaily

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July 17, 2008 No Comments

Quibblo: A Location-Aware Polling Widget For The 3G iPhone

by Justin

Quibblo

The Quibblo Polls widget for the 3G iPhone is a free location-aware widget-based application available from the iTunes App Store powered by WHERE. Quibblo says they are “not a traditional social network, but rather a distributed platform that enables users to collect valuable input from the broader community where others are able to weigh in on the topics that interest them, be it here at Quibblo.com or on any site that uses our technology”. With the app you can create your own polls, surveys, or quizzes, take polls developed by others, and then look through results by geography. In fact, you can narrow down survey results by others who have taken it within a 10 mile radius of your location.

You can also display polls on your web-based social networks such as Facebook and add friends like any typical social site. And just today Quibblo added a new feature that allows you to upload an image to the title of your quiz adding a whole new dimension of possibilities for this unique social network. For those of you that decide to download Quibblo for you iPhone, you’ll also be able to access other WHERE-powered apps such as Buddy Beacon.

via theanygeoblog