Boost Mobile, the hip-hop-themed pre-paid service from Sprint Nextel, has the tagline “Where you at?” This grammatically frightening phrase now has meaning, as Boost has partnered with Loopt to launch a mobile friend finder.
Just download the little Java app to your phone, set permissions, add your like-Boosted friends who’ve done the same and you’ll all be able to find each other on an on-screen map in real time. Scroll through locations and send messages, all using Nextel’s built-in GPS functionality.
You can then mingle together into a menacing, tough-looking gang of K-Fed look-alikes and “holla” things such as “whaddup?” and “you trippin’, dawg” and look foolish doing so.
Loopt, which works as it’s own app, will be free for current Boost members.
Boost/Loopt sing-up [loopt.com]
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This entire hip-hop thing is retarded.
Comment by Zvi Cohen — September 19, 2006 @ 2:10 am
[...] So what does any of that have to do with kids and social skills? I really believe that new uses will be developed that leverage this context. This week I learned about undersound, an example of a new use for mobility that creates connection between people based on the physical world and enabled by the combined computer, Internet, and mobility revolutions. If you follow the above link, you’ll probably find, as I did, that it sounds a bit cumbersome and I rather doubt that it will work out quite as well as its inventors imagine, but it’s a great first step. Others are also working on ways to use location to get people out and interacting with each other (e.g. mologogo, SLAM, Loopt, and PhoneTag come to mind). [...]
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