Glympse

The world has forever been changed with the advent of the social web and one other technology that has made finding friends where ever they are a breeze. New generation web apps like “Glympse“, allows people to share their whereabouts in real time, enters the email number of the people they have to meet at get real-time feeds on where they are and vice versa, even going as far as presenting estimated arrival times to your agreed meeting place and more. You get a page that has a map with your geo-location based on your smart-phone’s coordinates changing as you move through traffic making meeting as real as it can get. The nifty feature, the fed shuts down after a few a few hours leaving you and your friends to finish your drinks or go home and rest.
The company made their aim known during the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference where they unleashed their version of the upcoming generation of position-aware web apps that combined many of the web’s much loved technologies; mapping, positioning, feeds and real-time geo-spatial information allowing people to get a view of where their friends are in relation to their own position. The system being privacy aware also protects the people who use the system for it automatically cuts off positional information feeds to give people back their privacy.