A mobile phone service that lets users track the location of friends and family is launching in the UK. The Sniff application sends users a message showing the position of the person they are trying to find – who must also have signed up to the service – and a map.
The sign-up procedure is to register the user’s phone via text to a shortcode, and additionally users can also add a Facebook app (like with everything it seems these days!). For Only users over 18 are accepted in to the service.
Once signed up, users can then sniff to find the location of a friend, and will get a reply showing a map and their location. Fortunately the service is enabled across all UK MNOs, so there isn’t an issue with your mates being on a different network to you.
Right now the service costs 50p per successful sniff (see below), but the thinking is that this could eventually become ad-funded (like with everything it seems these days!).
Well, sounds quite cool – wonder if there are some other upcomign mobile social networking services out there……?
[Via: Guardian.co.uk]