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March 8, 2012 08:17 pm GMT

Kismet Combines Check-Ins, Background Location And More A SXSW Dark Horse?

Meetings_ProfileOut of the slew of new location apps vying for users at SXSW this weekend, Highlight and Glancee are looking like the standouts.They both have subtle ways of connecting you to friends and new people via your phone, without invading your privacy too much. But there's a royal rumble of competitors.And another one of them,Kismet, has just entered the ring with a particularly forward approach to privacy that could help it win the attention melee.It includes the background location stuff like the others, but lets you check in if you really want to declare the place you're at."Walking around San Francisco, I'm unlikely to check in," chief executive Kevin Stephens explains. "But at SXSW where so many events are right on top of each other, it's more valuable to show which event or location I actually am in order to meet new people. It's impractical to leave a bar to go to one next door if the line is 30 minutes long."

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