Where tells you what's around
Where's interface for iPhone and iPod Touch.
(Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET Networks)If you don't know, Where is a location-based application full of widgets that deliver essential information about what's close by you such as restaurants, gas stations, or even your friends. Basically, whatever you're after, the day-to-day stuff that is, Where is designed to deliver. The application gathers information from other social Web sites including Eventful, Yelp, GasBuddy, Zipcar, ShopLocal, Starbucks, and Buddy Beacon, and makes it available to your mobile device.
And Where is not picky when it comes to mobile devices. It's available on virtually any major mobile platform and carrier: Alltel, AT&T, Boost, Helio, metroPCS, Sprint, you name it. And today uLocate Communications, the creator of Where, announced the Where application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch at Apple's new App Store for free.
iPhone and iPod Touch users now can leverage Where's library of location-enabled widgets to easily discover nearby places and things of interest. They will also be able to share their location and status with friends via Buddy Beacon. Each of Where's widgets delivers content based on the user's current location and provides the ability to show this content on a map, get directions, and easily share the location with friends.
All you have to do now is get an iPhone, but chances are you already know that, possibly even more than anything else.
Dong Ngo is a CNET editor who covers networking and network storage, and writes about anything else he finds interesting. You can also listen to his podcast at insidecnetlabs.cnet.com. E-mail Dong.
