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National Public Radio: Morning Edition 9/25/06: Dan Charles:
When Fletcher pulls out his phone and selects Mologogo, it displays a map of the streets around him while a dot shows his location. It also shows where Fletcher's friends are, if they have Mologogo running on their cell phones. The phones all transmit their locations to a Web site, so Fletcher also can log in from any computer and find his friends online.
"You can search for your friends. You can even set it up to track one friend," Fletcher says. "And if that's the person you are interested in today because they're doing something interesting, you might want to set it up just to watch them, to see where they are and what they're doing." Link
MAKE: Blog: Phil Torrone:
Earlier, we posted about the DIY cheap GPS tracking service Mologogo, you can get a cheap $60 pre-paid boost mobile phone, register on the site, download a Java app and you're pretty much done. The phone will transmit your position to server (Uses Rails, Linux, Google Maps) and you/your friends can view where you are at in real time. I've hacked up tons of solutions to do the same thing, and this is simplest and cheapest (pretty much free if you have the phone, or $60 if you go pre-paid + 0.20 / day). Link
Popular Science: How 2.0: May 2006 Ethan Todras-Whitehill:
"Cue the Mission Impossible theme. I'm working a top-secret operation, and my support team is monitoring my every movement. OK, so I'm just going to the hardware store, but my girlfriend, Jen, is tracking me. Using a $100 kit from Mologogo (with a $6-a-month data plan), I've turned a prepaid cellphone into a GPS tracking device. Every few minutes, the phone transmits my location within 100 meters to mologogo.com, which posts it to a Google map that Jen can access from any computer. She can view my most recent spot or my past 100 recorded locations as little pushpins stamped with date and time." Link
Associated Press:
It's Friday, 10 p.m. Do you know where your friends are? You could give them a call, but if their mobile phones are equipped with the latest in satellite navigation, you could also go to a Web site such as Mologogo to find their whereabouts on a map, accurate to within a few meters. Mologogo, which displays a user's location only to those authorized to see it, is just one of the applications that have sprung up as satellite navigation, once an exclusive feature in expensive cars, it is now finding its way into mobile phones. Link