Further to the BW article sent by Doug yesterday, I read an interesting article about a new, largely European-inspired, initiative that hope to address the problem of sharing your location between different platforms. The alliance, called OSLO (Open Sharing of Location-based Objects) includes many of the players in mobile social networking and location-based social software.
Twelve startups, all of whom serve their users with location-based services, have signed an agreement to enable their combined 30 million users to share location information and interact between networks.
OSLO has been in discussion with Google and Yahoo! about joining the alliance. Google of course recently launched it’s Latitude product, while Yahoo! has been working on FireEagle.
For the full article, click this link:
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/oslo-accord-pushes-location-sharing-between-social-networks/
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