Yesterday, we wrote about the location photo layering app, Layar and now there's a new location app for social networking and pizza-place-socailizing, Aloqa.
The Aloqa mobile app is designed to let users
discover their friends and favorites nearby. The Aloqa application
captures user preferences and social network relationships and then
proactively notifies users of interesting places, events, and Facebook
friends near them. Instead of having to launch a browser or search
application, users can just look at their phones and see what favorite
hotspots, friends, events of interest, and recommended bargains are
close by.
There are ready-made pre-installed channels that include pizza, McDonalds, Starbucks, beer halls, concerts, movies, and other social activities.
The beta application is now available in the United States
and Germany on Android and the Blackberry Curve 8900 and the Blackberry
Bold 9000, with other platforms coming in the near future.
The 15 publishers being launched on Aloqa include Facebook Connect,
Yelp, Eventful, last.fm, Wikipedia, Craigslist, Topix, Fon, Coulomb
Technologies, GreatDad, Google Maps API, Qype, Fon, Call-A-Bike,
Nestoria, and BeLocal.
Here's and Aloqa example, you
don't have to touch your keyboard and will just be informed if a
Facebook friend happens to be close by, that the closest Starbucks is a
block away, and your favorite local jazz band is playing tonight at a
pub a mile away. You can decide to hook up with your friend for the
jazz show, or plan an impromptu meetup at the Starbucks.
The beta apps are through Android Market and Aloqa.
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