Dutch telecoms operator Hi puts your friends, and their current activities, on a Google Map. By sending text messages Hi can directly determine the location (based on information of the cell masts, the CellID), and what you are doing there is, thanks to a connection with Hyves, automatically inserted into the 'WhoWhatWhere' field in the user's Hyves profile (mf, Dutch). Thus communication slowly becomes realtime. Now we still have to explicitly pass information, soon we will give our friends permission to see where we are, what we are doing, who we are talking to, and what our plans are. Only with our permission of course. Thus the virtual world more and more becomes a reflection of the real world.
Hi puts your friends on the map
Dutch telecoms operator Hi puts your friends, and their current activities, on a Google Map. By sending text messages Hi can directly determine the location (based on information of the cell masts, the CellID), and what you are doing there is, thanks to a connection with Hyves, automatically inserted into the 'WhoWhatWhere' field in the user's Hyves profile (mf, Dutch). Thus communication slowly becomes realtime. Now we still have to explicitly pass information, soon we will give our friends permission to see where we are, what we are doing, who we are talking to, and what our plans are. Only with our permission of course. Thus the virtual world more and more becomes a reflection of the real world.