App Lets You Know When Friends Are Nearby

July 26, 2010 | Source: Technology Review

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A new location-based application for mobile phones called face2face lets users see if any of their connections on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter are nearby, but for security, does not give out that contact’s exact location.

The application also comes with privacy settings that let users decide if they want to be invisible to others, and who they want to share their information with. Once users know they’re near each other, the application lets them communicate, by text, phone, or messages on a social networking site.

In the future, the app could offer coupons to a coffee shop where a friend is already sitting.