As an avid coffee drinker, I’m excited to see the release today of location-based iPhone application Coffee Buzz. The application uses the iPhone’s GPS to find your location and then places all the nearby cafes and coffee destinations on Google Maps. The coolest feature of Coffee Buzz is its Twitter integration, allowing you to tweet that you’re having coffee with the appropriate location information added.
Developed by United Kingdom-based Kisky Netmedia, Coffee Buzz seems to have evolved out of the frequent microblogging line, “having coffee at (enter your location)”. Not only does it involve Twitter, it looks to have its own integrated social network so you’re updated about the brew-guzzling locations of other Coffee Buzz users worldwide.
Says the creators:
“We made Coffee Buzz because we love iPhone and we love coffee. We know loads of our friends microblog that they’re ‘having a coffee’ and we always wanted to know more. Coffee Buzz makes that possible; you can ‘tweet’ your favorite coffee from your favorite café; and share that ‘coffee social’ buzz!”
“Coffee Buzz is a social utility app with personality; we wanted the interface to be special so we even made all the cups of coffee ourselves. There are currently 11 or so favorite coffee drinks; in the future though we may add more as our users request them!”
Not surprisingly though, there is one tiny problem with this application: it costs $3.99. But hey, for caffeine junkies that’s nothing–about the price of a Starbucks brew.
You can find Coffee Buzz at the iTune’s app store or via the Coffee Buzz website. The developers have also written an interesting report about the entire Coffee Buzz development process that you can download from The Amazing iPhone.
(Image Credit: Ahmed Rabea)
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