The Kliq beta application has recently been submitted to the iPhone app store. Kliq allows you to schedule a meetup with nearby facebook friends or a friend-of-friend at a nearby location in three thumb taps.
A tech nugget and anecdote: Kliq uses SimpleGeo to go from the user’s GPS location to a set of possible city names nearby. For example this is what Kliq returned based on my current GPS:
2010-12-24 18:41:49.531 Kliq[45740:207] response {
“request_type” = “give_location”;
response = (
Columbus,
Columbus,
“Grove City”,
Groveport,
Obetz,
Urbancrest,
Brice,
Bexley,
Whitehall,
Valleyview,
“Grandview Heights”,
Pataskala,
“Marble Cliff”,
Gahanna,
“Upper Arlington”,
Hilliard,
“New Albany”,
Dublin,
“Minerva Park”,
Worthington,
Riverlea,
Westerville,
Powell,
“Shawnee Hills”,
Galena,
Reynoldsburg,
Pickerington,
“Canal Winchester”
);
}
All of us at Kliq LLC are very excited for the Kliq app to be out in the wild to push us forward with our pie-in-the-sky dreams of helping us all have more in person adventures. In Time Magazine’s profile of Mark Zuckerberg as person of the year the journalist asserts
He [Zuckerberg] didn’t build Facebook so he could have a social life like the rest of us. He built it because he wanted the rest of us to have his.
Surely you want our social lives, not Mark Zuckerberg’s :-). On that note, off to dine with family and meetup with Columbus friends.