(Click here for larger image)Mologogo is described as "social software built atop a mini-GPS mapping system for your phone." Users can track their own location and the locations of other users through the Mologogo server. It currently works on "pretty much any Nextel phone with Java, GPS, and a data plan," the company says. Nextel is the only carrier that currently supports direct user access to GPS data, according to Mologogo.
As a location tracking service, Mologogo appears similar to locator services
recently announced by Verizon and Sprint, which primarily target child tracking. But Mologogo goes further. For example, a recently released API (application programming interface) lets users upload location data to any webserver for storage and later retrieval and use. Perhaps even more important, it's free.
According to its developers, Mologogo is still in an "alpha" release stage. When the code reaches an appropriate level of stability, the developers plan to release it under an open-source license.
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