Every couple of weeks it seems like I hear of a new location based social networking and Geo-Tagging service. Last week I recommended brightkite and this week there appears to be a new twitter like location based service called nrme.
Nrme is a messaging system like Twitter, but unlike Twitter it allows a user to read all messages broadcast in your surrounding area. With nrme iPhone users can broadcast a message to any (and all) nrme users located within nine blocks of you. Possible set to launch when the iPhone App Store launches, nrme sounds like it can be very useful for staying connected to local news, incidents and updates from restaurants and shops. Though I like brightkite a lot I think nrme could be easier to use and therefore catch on a lot faster. We’ll have to wait and see when it launches in July!
[...] Like iPhone App Posted on August 25, 2008 by Tom OKeefe Last week the location based, Twitter like service called NrMe went live on the iPhone Application store. NrMe is a terrific service that [...]