Wednesday, January 23, 2008

JotYou is location based messaging

What Company Is Offering:
JotYou is location based messaging. Send a message to your friends so they get it when they arrive at school or the ballpark or the mall. Make up geo-games. Track a foot race or bicycle race. Stage a road rally with virtual checkpoints, and feed the directions as participants progress. Ever plan to pick up the milk on the way home from work, but drive right by the store and forget? Use JotYou™ to remind yourself as you pass by specified locations. The possibilities are endless.

How it works:
You send a message to one person or many people, and specify a delivery time and location using the map on the computer, or an address from your mobile. When they arrive at the location you specify, JotYou alerts them by "buzzing" their cell phone, and delivering the message. It's just that simple!

JotYou also has a tracking feature that you can enable for fun games, events, and contests. The event organizer creates a tracking group, and can watch the locations of participants on the map as the event proceeds, and the times they were at those locations. Privacy is of course a concern, so the tracker only works when you allow it to, and visibility of location data is restricted by the group owner. Entry is protected by double-opt-in security, and tracking data is only collected during limited "game time" windows.

More at:http://www.jotyou.com/

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