Loopted / Awarespot

Location based awareness systems using both navigational systems and mobile network technologies.

• Users register on a website

• Loopt enables users to broadcast their status to a broad set of services and find interesting locations and reviews nearby.

• Awarespot also has a similar feature that people subscribe to online content, put in information that is relevant to them such as date, time, day, and travel paths, and information is sent to them via sms if they are in specific areas at the times they provided, eg Sales, travel traffic jams.

Eg: restaurants, clothing shops with sales

• Loopt aggregates local content to provide a map view of great places and star ratings.

• Enables groups of people to connect with one another by place setting there location so they can find 

each other.

• Can act as a platform for businesses to attract people

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QIK

Qik is a new service that allows you to stream video content directly from your mobile phone 

• People can view it real time online. 

• In addition it has the feature of online viewers being able to send text based messages to the broadcaster. 

• This has the potential to create an interaction environment between audience and producer. 

(http://qik.com)

CitySence

A mobile phone application that displays a heat map 

of activity via a designated area. 

Visualization can show where the hotspots of social activity are, providing a data stream to the user in real time.