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Track friend activity by location with Zkout

Zkout, a location-based mobile social network has just released a new version that integrates both Twitter and Yahoo's Fire Eagle. The service, which first demonstrated its technology at last year's Le Web 3 conference in Paris, enables anyone with a compatible handset to write notes, take pictures, and chat with others based on where they are.

Not unlike competitors Brightkite, Loopt, and the now-defunct Meetro, the goal of Zkout is to discover and interact with people around you no matter where you are. However the big difference is that Zkout is remaining platform agnostic, and will work on … Read more

Start-up Wichro takes leap from obscurity

One morning in April, Wichro, a San Francisco-based start-up that develops software for mobile networking, noticed that people had started to use its service in the thousands. There was confusion at the office. Zkout had just been released as a first beta with no marketing efforts whatsoever.

"We got no warning," founder and CEO Christian Wiklund said in a recent interview with CNET News.com.

While the seven employees at the year-old company worked around the clock to make sure servers could cope with the traffic, the reason for the jump became clear: the folks at Apple had … Read more