iFob(TM) 2.0 Real-Space Social Networking Developed for the Apple iPhone 3G
Posted on June 11, 2008
Filed Under Web 2.0
MISSOULA, Mont., June 11 /PRNewswire/ — iCloseBy.com today announces
the latest release of iFob(TM), the popular real-space social networking
software. As an accepted member of both the Apple Developer Network and
Apple’s iPhone Developer Program, iCloseBy.com has used the Apple iPhone
SDK and has developed iFob 2.0 for Apple’s consideration. iFob 2.0,
including all of the functionality of the earlier versions of iFob (still
available free download for Windows PCs), now has the unified look-and-feel
of other Apple native iPhone software apps, as well as a newly added
ability to ‘real-space-real-time’ locate other willing iFob users from
GPS-like cell-tower triangulation.
iFob is unique software which uses the built-in Wi-Fi communication of
Apple iPhone, iPods and PCs, and turns these devices into homing beacons,
broadcasting, or just listening, for other close-by copies of iFob. With
iFob, people create tiny social networking profiles that are carried around
on their iPhone or PC, which are easily changed depending on the situation
and presence of other iFob users who are close by. Unlike social networking
sites such as Facebook or My Space, iFob only displays lists of iFob users
who are actually in the same hotspots at the same time as each other,
meaning that iFob users will be close enough to look up and exchange
smiles. iFob is used as an icebreaker to real conversations.
iFob software for PCs is still a free download from
http://www.iCloseBy.com. iFob 2.0 software for the iPhone 3G is currently
awaiting approval by Apple to be distributed at no cost through the Apple
store.
About iCloseBy.com: iCloseBy manufactures the iFob(TM) line of software
products for the Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, Apple OSX and Windows PCs.
iFob is Wi-Fi software which turns the iPhone, iPod Touch, and laptops into
social networking “beacons” which let people meet each other in any public
hotspot. By only showing connections which are so close by that they could
look up and smile at each other, iFob brings reality back to social
networking. iFob software for PCs is still available as a free download
from the company web site http://www.iCloseBy.com.
iCloseBy LLC. is located in Missoula, Montana.
iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.
iCloseBy and iFob are trademarks of iCloseBy LLC
SOURCE iCloseBy.com
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