It’s a sign of the times, as Palringo launches a suite of location services targeted at letting friends know the locations of other friends. Starting today, users looking down their contact lists see not only the location of their Palringo contacts—typically a town name—but also how far away those contacts are from them. And in a future update, Palringo will add the ability to be able to locate those friends on a map.
Dodgeball meets IM. It sounds a lot like Loopt to me, but I can’t compare as Loopt isn’t yet available anywhere but the US.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
