I saw an interesting video<\/a> on PSFK.COM<\/em>. It was a demo of a newish LBS mobile web service called Socialight<\/a><\/em> which is based around sticky notes (aka Post-it’s ™) that are tied to a particular location. Users create the free-form notes to scribble their impressions of a restaurant or club, as either a private reminder to self, a “Meet me here” note visible only to friends or as a shared bit of knowledge viewable by anyone.<\/p>\n
As I have an iDEN phone I was pretty excited about Socialight after seeing the video. The excitement was somewhat dashed when I discovered that the Java app is “coming soon”. For now, Socialight on the phone is a mobile web site (socialight.com\/m<\/a>). Theres’s also an SMS interface which I didn’t try. When you post a sticky note on the mobile web site you have to type in the address or at least a zip code. Socialight will geolocate the note based on the address you entered. Every time you visit Socialight you also need to set your current location by entering your zip code or address. Locations expire after two hours so you have to re-enter them periodically. Socialight remembers your last five locations and lets you re-chose one of those from a list which eases the pain considerably.<\/p>\n
More on Socialight from the Blogosphere:<\/p>\n
Socialight is in the Technology\/Mobile\/Mobile Social<\/em> folder at YesWAP.com<\/a>.
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I saw an interesting video on PSFK.COM. It was a demo of a newish LBS mobile web service called Socialight which is based around sticky notes (aka Post-it’s ™) that are tied to a particular location. Users create the free-form notes to scribble their impressions of a restaurant or club, as either a private reminder to self, a “Meet me here” note visible only to friends or as a shared bit of knowledge viewable by anyone. What really caught my … Continue reading