DISQUS

louisgray.com: Stalqer: A Location Sharing App for Real Friends

  • Scobleizer · 1 month ago
    I have a video of Stalqer going up tonight. I think your account is part of the demo.
  • Louis Gray · 1 month ago
    That can't be good! Now the world will know how boring my life truly
    is! Scoble, you will expose the ugliness!
  • galveston · 1 month ago
    Nice feature to update your own position with the mail app! Never seen or heard about that one before.
  • Otto · 1 month ago
    How exactly can it do background updating? I thought Apple's terms don't allow that sort of thing.

    Navizon, for example, can do true-background updating, but the phone must be jailbroken to do it.
  • Otto · 1 month ago
    Hah! I worked out how it does it!

    Basically, it creates a fake email account in your phone. When your phone checks this email account, it gives their servers information, like your IP address. They can use that for a general location fix, or they can use Push to talk back to their app and have it send them updated location info.
  • Zahid Lilani · 1 month ago
    Apart from the name and facebook connect, how is it different from Loopt?