Then start searching for friends. If your friends aren't on there yet, you can fill in their details for them. It's like that whole community driven wikipedia-like model thingy.

Here are links to the origins of Whoisi. Here's a blog post that explains things in a lot more detail. All in all, I'd say this is some very nice new socnet tech. I approve.

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I signed up for Britekite when it first went into beta, but it took me just up until about a week ago to spend some time figuring out its inner workings. I've finally mastered the basic sms techniques for "checking in" and I'm able to more or less geo-tag myself as I see fit. Here's a recent map of where I've checked in:

There are countless implications for broadcasting this much meta out across the internets and I'm sure this is even more of a problem for women with stalker types, ex-bff's, and other wacko's. Security is of the uptmost importance in these geo-location-based socnets, and as soon as the "friend circle" is breached by unwanted lurker/stalker types, the whole thing could implode. Personally, if I don't feel like broadcasting my location, then maybe all I need to do is just send bogus geo data when I checkin, but that would defeat the purpose.

For now, I'll continue playing around with Britekite. I've got invites in case anyone wants in.