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February 16, 2012 10:01 pm GMT
YC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple's Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those two competitors focus on enabling social experiences on top of their own platforms or ecosystems, Glassmap is enabling a third alternative: realtime location tracking built on top of Facebook's social graph. Yes, it's like a "Find My Facebook Friends."However, this app isn't using Facebook check-ins to track your friends - it's actually tracking them in real time, by running the app passively in the background. And that's where Glassmap's killer feature comes in: the startup is using "relay" technology to minimize the typical battery drains associated with realtime location-sharing apps today.
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YC-Backed Glassmap Launches A Find My Friends For Facebook Users
YC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple's Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those two competitors focus on enabling social experiences on top of their own platforms or ecosystems, Glassmap is enabling a third alternative: realtime location tracking built on top of Facebook's social graph. Yes, it's like a "Find My Facebook Friends."However, this app isn't using Facebook check-ins to track your friends - it's actually tracking them in real time, by running the app passively in the background. And that's where Glassmap's killer feature comes in: the startup is using "relay" technology to minimize the typical battery drains associated with realtime location-sharing apps today.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-1s0wSnpwBI/
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