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Locify: Mobile Twitter Location
I have been using TwitterWhere every now and then for the past few months. I like the fact that they are using OpenID (although I'm not entirely sure why they even need a login) and of course if you don't have an OpenID account but you do have a Twitter account you can use twauth.
TwitterWhere is mainly for use on a normal desktop computer but there is a new startup called Locify which is an application for your mobile phone. It integrates with your phone's GPS functionality (if you're lucky enough to have that).
Best of all is that they even have an API so that you can develop third-party applications with it.
I wonder if they support triangulation for phones without GPS support... I asked already on the Twitter Development Talk mailing list so let's see if I get a response...
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
2 Comments
Comment by
Ismail D on Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:39:00 PM
Triangulation usually requires hardware on the network side, so even if they support it. It may work on VCOM(VCOM has LBS) but not Cell c for example
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:02:00 PM
Thanks for pointing that out Ismail!
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