Beyond Where: Kakiloc at Barcamp Ottawa
Kakiloc marries social networks and location based services. Via handsets and via a web portal, it allows you to broadcast your location, and find the locations of your closest friends. It’s jammed full of features like reminders, and rules that allow you to specify things like “When my girlfriend is within one kilometer, let me know”, so you can grab lunch together… and, like LinkedIn, it includes friend of friend capabilities, so that you can be notified when there are people nearby who might be interesting to meet. Kakiloc envisions this capability being used at tradeshows, for instance.Â
Cool, with lots of potential.
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:28 am
[...] Alec Saunders recently attended BarCamp in Ottawa, and came away impressed with a start-up called Kakiloc, which he describes as something that “marries social networks and location based services”. Using Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, the Ottawa-based start-up lets people broadcast their locations (longitude and latitude) to friends and family through a computer or mobile devices. Kakiloc looks to among a growing number of companies trying to capitalize on the growing interest in GPS technology among consumers. The mobile market is particularly fertile as more consumers subscribe to location-based services. Last month, Sprint Nextel rolled out a friend-tracking service call Boost, while Helio launched Buddy Beacon. Kakiloc looks like an interesting “feature” that could prove useful to wireless carriers looking to attract young consumers, and/or a social networking site that wants to build customer loyalty. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner [...]