Mobile map application shows users where to party
By Hilary Powell
If you’re going out with the girls or the guys for a night on the town in a new city, a new mobile map application could help you pinpoint the place to party.
Citysense is a GPS-enabled service that highlights hot nightspots in San Francisco in real time. The technology is currently only compatible with Blackberry phones, but will soon be available with the new GPS-enabled iPhone.
On Google and Yelp, users can pinpoint locations called “hotspots.” These locations include bars, restaurants, and clubs. The Citysense Web sites says that a color-coded map details which of these locations is packed with unusually high activity.
And the mobile application is one that really gets to know mobile users. According to the Citysense folks:
The application learns about the kinds of places you like to go from GPS – without ever sharing that information. In its next release, Citysense will not only tell you where everyone is right now, but where everyone like YOU is right now.
I’m not so sure about a phone that can predict where I like to party, but the technology is certainly an example of a mobile social network that helps like-minded people connect.
According to a ComputerWorld.com report released in May, “millenials,” or people born between the years 1981 and 2000 are leading the move to mobile social networks and Mobile Web 2.0, which includes cell phone-based blogging, multimedia sharing, location-based socialization services, gaming and chat.
The number of users of these services is on the rise – in fact, a new study by InStat is predicting that by 2012, there will be nearly 30 million millennials.
That would be one large map on Citysense.
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