A new social networking website, Gypsii.com, has developed a new people search application to track and find your friends’ locations, using cellphone technology, maps and social networks like Facebook.com.<\/p>\n
The software allows people to pinpoint a person’s exact location in real time, using mobile phone technology as a tracking device.<\/p>\n
Gypsii.com launched this week at a phone industry trade show in Barcelona, Spain with a service that allows people to search for and identify the locations of their friends, family and network contacts around the world.<\/p>\n
The people finder software, currently available only for high-end cell phones, allows users to find people and locations in any area, as well as share pictures, video clips and audio files with their friends and social network globally.<\/p>\n
Gypsii is compatible with social network websites, by allowing the location-specific functionality of a person’s cell phone to be sent to a user’s Facebook.com page, plotting their friends’ as well as their own personal location.<\/p>\n
Some technology analysts admit that some people will be turned off at the thought of being watched, tracked or monitored by another person, even by their friends and family.<\/p>\n
The location of a cellphone can be found in two ways:<\/p>\n
1. By a GPS chip that allows a device to recognise its location based on communication with satellites.<\/p>\n
2. By triangulation when a cellphone sends signals to cellphone towers located around it. By measuring the speed at which signals travel to these different communication stations, a position can be calculated for the person using the cellphone.<\/p>\n
According to phone industry experts, cellphones can be searched and located to within a few feet of their position.<\/p>\n
Cellphone service providers and software designers are touting services that range from personal navigation to fighting terrorism at the mobile industry’s biggest trade show in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new social networking website, Gypsii.com, has developed a new people search application to track and find your friends’ locations, using cellphone technology, maps and social networks like Facebook.com. The software allows people to pinpoint a person’s exact location in real time, using mobile phone technology as a tracking device. Gypsii.com launched this week at […]<\/p>\n