I don’t mean that, obviously. Well, you could stalk someone using the Loopt mobile friend finder, but they’d have to be a friend of yours, and have agreed to let you see their location at any time. Neither of which makes stalking likely. But anyway.
This is US news, but it gives you a good idea about the kind of location-based services that could launch here in the near future. US operator Boost has teamed up with a company called Loopt to launch a nifty Java application which helps you keep track of your friends.
You download it to your phone, set permissions, and can then see all your mates (at least, the ones who’ve also signed up) on an on-screen map, sending each other messages. It could make “I’M ON THE TRAIN!” a thing of the past, if people can see that you’re moving at high-speed along a railway line.
Two problems though. First, the app relies on the GPS chips inside Boost’s mobiles – phones without them wouldn’t be able to provide as accurate a location. And secondly, how many of your friends are on the same operator as you? This sort of thing can’t really take off until it works across different operators.
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