Considering at the increasing number of apps and services that use your phone’s GPS capability to pin down your location to within a few metres, (such as Nokia’s LifeviNe, Google’s My Location, Yahoo’s Fire Eagle), you might be forgiven for worrying about all the BAD PEOPLE who are taking an interest in your movements. Nanonavi might be a step in the right direction.
A location-aware social networking tool, nanonavi hooks into social networks like Bebo, Orkut and Facebook – you download it directly from the websites and then “merge your macro-social information” and share it with your friends.
Until now nanonavi has been available as a J2ME and a Windows Mobile application. However, developer Nanomatic has just announced a native Symbian app that will not only bring the service to a wider range of GPS-ified phones but also make it more secure.
The idea is to take the scary-sounding location-aware stuff and make it available only to the people in your social network. This sounds fine in principle, but consider – how many people in your Facebook ‘friends’ list are actually, y’know, your friends? Maybe time to beware BAD FRIENDS.
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I definitely love the *idea* of gps-driven so-lo broadcast, but I have to say I have my doubts as to how much I’d be willing to use it myself
I think this is pretty cool. It must be said. I think a lot of people would agree with me on this one. I’m getting this thing.