Hi puts your friends on the map
Dutch telecoms operator Hi puts your friends, and their current activities, on a Google Map. By sending text messages Hi can directly determine the location (based on information of the cell masts, the CellID), and what you are doing there is, thanks to a connection with Hyves, automatically inserted into the ‘WhoWhatWhere’ field in the user’s Hyves profile (mf, Dutch). Thus communication slowly becomes realtime. Now we still have to explicitly pass information, soon we will give our friends permission to see where we are, what we are doing, who we are talking to, and what our plans are. Only with our permission of course. Thus the virtual world more and more becomes a reflection of the real world.
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Reaction by mapquest op Jun 17th, 2008 06:08
When planning a road trip it is most important to have a detailed map with driving directions on hand. All the major search engine sites have map routing resources, including Google and Yahoo. Even though they are getting more advanced all the time, I am sure we have all found errors when following them. I have even had Never Lost in a Hertz car confused. I would like to provide a link to a great mapping service through AAA of Michigan. You do not have to be a member to utilize this service. It is one of the…