Thursday, January 18, 2007

Forget GPS, track you position with WiFi pinpoint service

Next time upon connection to your favourite WiFi hotspot don't forget to check out a new service with a social-networking flavour - Plazas. It will help you not only get your bearings - position coordinates, photos and comments previous users made about the place, but discover who's using wi-fi near you, maybe even the same access point so you could walk-by and say "Hello".
And if it so happens you've just discovered a new previously unknown hotspot - give community some help - login and share that location with everyone else. You'd be rewarded with Karma points whatever that is.
Yep, I' say that's a favourable scenario - you're on your own in unknown city stalking some free wi-fi to check mail and send some words back to a girlfriend, and voilĂ  - you've got a link and Plazas inform you that there's a hot blonde accessing the Net couple of steps down the road. So naturally you log a position of that dark AP you're linked with now, receive some karma boost and drop by a girl with a nice pick-up phrase like "Hi, there's better waves over there, I've just discovered that place, wanna join me?". Give Plazas a try.