AIM's location tracker could be useful for small groups

AOL's back in the game now innovating in the social media, and it's not just it's support of a YouTube killer, and partnerships with NBC and MySpace that's interesting.

It's Location Finder, for AIM users, still in beta, will use Wi-Fi hotspots to triangulate a user's position, much like the way GPS would do, but with more accuracy. This needs work; unless the user 'teach' the software by specifying their location it will not be accurate. But with the right inputs it could do better than what triangulation achieves now, using cell phone towers.

Which makes me wonder what this might do, if Twitter could add a similar feature. After all, the major interest in Twitter is the ability for groups to connect and keep tabs on each other. I could see a huge interest in a micro version of Twittervision.

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[inmarsatsatellitephones]

Yes this has been suggested a few times - it sure would make things more confusing for the first time user of the service. But it is a nice idea.