-- Let others know you're stuck in traffic and running late -- Allow your teenager to check in on Friday night without feeling as if they are being followed -- Coordinate a time and location for happy hour with a large group -- Share your run, road ride or ski adventure with Twitter followers in real-time -- Make sure your child at college makes it safely home when driving through inclement weather -- You are lost and need help finding your way"Glympse offers people a way to share and track location that is incredibly simple," said Greg Sterling, analyst at Internet2Go and Sterling Market Intelligence. "It also gives users complete control over location sharing, thereby safeguarding privacy and security. And because it's free, it should put an end to subscription-based mobile family locators." Glympse can be downloaded for free on the iPhone and iPod touch from Apple's App Store. Search for "glympse" in the App store, or find it in the Social Networking category. On devices without GPS, like the iPod touch and non 3G iPhones, the Glympse experience can be less than optimal since it uses WiFi triangulation to identify location, which is typically less accurate than GPS and not always available. Glympse officially debuted on T-Mobile phones with Android in May, and last week it became a Showcase application within the newly launched Windows® Marketplace for Mobile. To see Glympse in action or to register for notification of upcoming Glympse releases on other smartphones, visit www.glympse.com. NOTE TO WRITERS/EDITORS: An overview video, b-roll and graphics depicting Glympse location sharing on the iPhone and other mobile phones and a computer may be requested via pr [at] glympse [dot] com. About Glympse Inc. Based in the Seattle area, Glympse, Inc. was founded in March 2008 by three former Microsoft veterans -- Bryan Trussel, Jeremy Mercer, and Steve Miller -- who collectively saw a need for a new type of location-sharing service. Glympse allows GPS-enabled mobile phone users to share their location for a pre-set period of time with anyone they choose using patent-pending GlympseWatch technology. Designed to keep up with an increasingly mobile lifestyle, Glympse visually answers the question of "Where are you?" with a dynamic map that updates a sender's whereabouts in real-time. Glympse was developed with consumer safety and privacy in mind, and the service provides users with complete control over WHO can view their location, WHEN and for HOW LONG. The company works with several industry groups, including ConnectSafely.org. Glympse and GlympseWatch are trademarks of Glympse Inc. For more information, visit www.glympse.com. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPod touch, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Other trademarks featured or referred to within this release are the property of their respective trademark holders. Their use does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement of Glympse products or services.
Mobile Location Sharing Goes Mainstream With Glympse(TM) for the iPhone(TM)
Free, Time-Based App Makes It Easy to Share Location With Anyone for Work, Play... and Life
| Source: Glympse
REDMOND, WA--(Marketwire - October 13, 2009) - iPhone users now have a free and easy way to
visually share their location with anyone around the globe via Glympse
(www.glympse.com), a new application that is as simple as sending a text
message or making a phone call. The newest version of Glympse is currently
available as a native application in the Apple iPhone App Store for 3G and
3GS iPhones, integrating the maps included in the 3.0 OS and a new Twitter
feed sharing option.
"iPhone users rely on their devices to stay connected and Glympse offers a
new and visually engaging way for users to share their current location and
connect with anyone they choose for a set amount of time," said Bryan
Trussel, co-founder and CEO of Glympse, Inc. "Other location sharing apps
require users to create another social network, which is unappealing to
most people because the reality is there are very few people in our lives
who we want to know where we are, all the time. Glympse solves this
problem by allowing users to define a limited time period during which
their location will be shared, making Glympse appropriate not only for
family and friends but also coworkers, existing social networks and even
mere acquaintances."
Once Glympse is downloaded, with a few simple taps iPhone users can
temporarily send their whereabouts to anyone in their contact list or any
other mobile number or email address, or even opt to post to their Twitter
account. With the patent-pending GlympseWatch™ timer, iPhone users with
Glympse can choose exactly how long they want to share their location --
from an instant, to minutes, up to four hours. Senders have the
flexibility to pause or delete a Glympse at any time or elect to extend it
before it expires.
All that is needed to receive a Glympse is a Web-enabled phone or computer.
To view a Glympse, one simply clicks on the unique URL embedded in the
message, which launches a dynamic map that pinpoints the sender's movements
in real-time, including speed of travel, and -- if a destination has been
designated -- the estimated arrival time. Although no software is required
to view a Glympse, having the app installed makes for a more interactive
and rich viewing experience.
Glympse's time-based application makes it appropriate for wide variety of
personal, professional or even one-time uses regularly encountered in daily
life. While the possibilities are endless, some common uses for Glympse
include: