Brightkite connects people based on the places they visit in the real world. With Brightkite you can see where your friends are, what they’re up to, see what’s going on around you, and meet real-world friends.

Most people who have tried the service understand that Brightkite doesn’t really track you, it’s up to you to decide how often you “check in”, and at what accuracy. On top of that, we have pretty comprehensive privacy controls.

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LightPole, Inc. is a software and services company offering carrier-grade server infrastructure and applications that enable publishers to distribute geo-specific content to mobile devices.
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular as personal tools for social networking, calendaring, and location-based services. In the next 5-10 years, mobile phones will supplant PCs as the primary interface to the Web, particularly in applications that increasingly bring the online world into sync with our offline reality.
LightPole’s mission is to bring the world of geo-contextual content to the growing population—now counted in hundreds of millions—of mobile phone users. LightPole publishing services make it easy for publishers, bloggers, and other content providers to distribute content to mobile device users, and to engage those users in interactive communities. No special programming or expensive IT investments are required. LightPole enables publishers to easily extend the publishing systems they already have to reach new markets and build new communities.

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bliin YourLIVE! is dedicated to creating a fluid social network for sharing personal experiences – photos, videos, sound & text – in real-time, located on a world map.

bliin envisions a navigation service driven by user experiences while being on the move.

In this new navigation space bliin YourLIVE! offers a ubiquitous service to share and discover location experience

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For enterprises and government entities that suffer from the limitations of GPS, Rosum provides seamless indoor/outdoor location technology that is rapid, available, and accurate. Rosum TV-GPS integrates signals from existing commercial TV towers with signals from GPS satellites to support positioning in all environments.

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CityScout is a mobile application which provides information on nearby places. There are many similar applications. CityScout stands out from these by not requiring a GPS device for its positioning but using mobile cells instead.

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This is the world of Gunslingers, an alternate reality for the action junkie! Venture into a world never before seen, where the weak perish and the strong get hunted. Find weapons, food and money… Complete missions and assassinations… And your ultimate reward? Get crowned the top fighter, as a well as a place in the history books as mankind’s most ruthless Gunslinger!

In Gunslingers, players experience the traditional mumbo jumbo espionage and tactical combat scenario with a slight difference… You get the whole of Singapore as your playing field! With a simple phone and Network Location Positioning Technology, players’ real world movements are mirrored in the game world, allowing them to physically react with other online players.

From the windy plains of Changi to the wet grounds of Jurong, everything in between is your battlefield. Free from the reins of the PC, engage other Gunslingers in a true real-time mobile gaming adventure.

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Spime’s NorthStar™ is a complete navigation suite for mobile phones. NorthStar™ runs on windows mobile, Symbian version will be available by end of 2007.

Spime’s Discovery™ enable consumers to identify track and communicate with objects of interest, inside their home, neighborhood, city, state or anywhere in the world at any time.

Spime’s PositionOne™ is a LCS middleware for mobile phones that are location enabled. PositionOne™ is compliant with OMA and 3GPP standards and integrates with the mobile phone platform

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Using location-based technologies, Loopt lets you know where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. Loopt even lets you send messages to nearby friends or receive automatic alerts when they’re nearby so that you never miss an opportunity to meet. Loopt also lets you journal your life so that your friends can see what you’re up to. With Loopt, mobile subscribers put themselves on the map.

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