Pocket Life Introduces Real Time Locations to Facebook

    MANLY, AUSTRALIA, April 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Announced at the Facebook developer conference in California, Pocketweb Ltd. uses its award-winning location-based social network Pocket Life to allow users to share their real time locations on Facebook. The result is a first of its kind since it allows users to show their Pocket Life status updates geo-tagged on their Facebook wall and profile. But not only that: they can basically see all locations, places and geo-tagged photos of themselves and of their friends from within Facebook.

To use this feature users simply need to log in to Facebook and search for the Pocket Life application. If they are not a Pocket Life user yet an account will be created automatically.

Whenever they log in to Pocket Life on the web or their mobile phone app their location and status updates will be posted on their Facebook profile so that friends will see it in their news feed.

Says Pocketweb CEO Hanno Blankenstein: "This way Facebook itself could use our leading Pocket Life platform to allow its users to share their real time locations, geo-tagged photos and geo-messages with their connected friends or to check-in to places." Using a granular Sharing Control concept users are always in control of their privacy. Unlike player Loopt the Pocket Life integration works globally and unlike apps such as Nokia OVI Facebook app, this service takes the real-time and continuously updated GPS location of a user and puts it into a social media context on Facebook.

Says Pocketweb CMO Alexander Koeppen: "This solution provides businesses and brands the opportunity to quickly bring their location based assets onto facebook including their customers' real time locations and their geo-tagged places, photos and messages. A great way to better connect with 400 million facebook users." Adds CTO Tony Culshaw: "The integration of our Pocket Life platform with the Facebook APIs opens up numerous ways to provide useful features and connect Facebook users with mobile solutions."

The deep integration with Facebook marks an important extension for consumer facing and corporate solutions of Pocketweb. Being offered to Pocketweb's existing corporate client portfolio first, the service will be enabled for new partners in the next months.

Pocket Life is a leading global location based social network on all carriers and all most mobile phones.
Australian and New Zealand based company Pocketweb (www.pocketweb.com.au) works out of Australia, New Zealand and Germany and develops and provides technologies and solutions for Location Based Services (LBS) and LBS-enabled Social Networks including customized mobile applications across leading mobile platforms. In 2008 Pocketweb launched the leading geo-integration platform "Pocket Life " for mobile devices and web browsers which provides applications and bundled solutions for consumer and B2B markets.

Website: http://www.pocketweb.com.au

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