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02 February 2007

Stalking me just got a whole lot easier, thanks to BuddyPing, a social networking site (UK only) that tracks your location using your mobile phone.→[More:]

One of my marketing buddies just told me about this. You can text it to find out if any of your friends are nearby, or it'll text you when they're nearby, or something like that, it's very confusing.

Frunkly, I think you'd need a lot of friends (not to mention an aversion to just picking up the phone and calling them) for this to be useful.

Although it will automatically geo-tag your Flickr photos for you, so that's handy, I guess.

post by: chrismear at: 06:18 | 12 comments

I really hate the stalkiness of the web. I changed my eBay user name because someone I work with emailed me once to quiz me about one of my purchases, as if he had some right to do so. It skeeved me out that he was spying on me like that, so I changed my ID. A couple of years later, someone else was given my old eBay ID and he emailed me about something she'd bought thinking it was still my ID.

posted by essexjan 02 February | 06:37

Jesus, that's the last thing I need at the moment. Fecking work stalker.

In other news, Amazon.co.uk has Wiis in stock and I've just ordered one. Yay for wiisearcher and the F5 button.

posted by TheDonF 02 February | 06:42

Amazon.co.uk has Wiis in stock

Thank you! *click click click*

posted by chrismear 02 February | 06:46

pshaw. The geotagging has me A whole 600 yards from where I actually am.
≡ Click to see image ≡
That's pretty rubbish.

*And very, very frightening*

posted by seanyboy 02 February | 06:55

Am I the only one who read that as "BuddyPig"? The unfortunate imagery on that one was downright lurid I tell you. Oink, I say. Oink.

posted by loquacious 02 February | 07:07

Did you get a Wii?

Also - sheesh, buddyping found me reasonably accurately - right town but out by about 0.5 miles. Nothing a that a 100KT nuclear device wouldn't sort out.

posted by TheDonF 02 February | 07:18

Yeah, I got a Wii!

posted by chrismear 02 February | 07:32

Is it just the shaft or the whole package?

And of stalkeriness (at first i thought it was TheDonF who posted it): despise it almost beyond reason, but, face it, at this point we're almost all bagged and tagged except those of us who wander off the grids on foot and/or without electronics of any kind.

Here's to the hinterland.
Bring supplies and be prepared.

posted by ethylene 02 February | 08:00

Yeah, I got a Wii!

Sweet! It's been a nightmare trying to find one. Most of the sites wiisearcher lists are blocked by my company's firewall, so I've missed out 2 or 3 times this week and have had to wait for either Amazon or Play to come up trumps.

But, w00t, I have a Wii! Now, what games do I want? Anyone?

posted by TheDonF 02 February | 09:01

yay! does this mean i can stalk chrismear?!?! weeeeee! ^_^

um, wait.

ahem...

In all seriousness I think the whole global tracking thing and the big-brother's-cameras-are-everywhere trends are very disturbing, but I don't think we'll avoid them in the end.

posted by lonefrontranger 02 February | 09:03

Mine's about a mile and a half out. It didn't give me any assurance that it wouldn't publish my email address for all to see - I can't see it there, but they should give some kind of indication as to what they will use it for, surely?

posted by altolinguistic 02 February | 09:26

Consider me squicked.

posted by mike9322 02 February | 10:28

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