Tagggit in open beta and available for download

You'll remember Tagggit from my AAS video interview with SkyHook? It's a geospatial social networking tool for S60, i.e. it uses SkyHook's databases of urban Wi-Fi hotspots to find your location without GPS and annotate places and activities for others. Tagggit is now available in open beta, so anyone can try it out. See below for lots of screenshots of Tagggit and the official launch press release. Comments welcome after you've given this a try over the weekend?

Tagggit screenshot

And here's the press release:

"Tagggit hopes to change how city dwellers use their phones.

Tagggit’s new mobile application can now find the phone’s position indoors, within a few seconds and accurate to fifteen feet. Today Tagggit launched a new version of their mobile application, the second application ever to deliver an accurate wireless positioning system on mobile phones; second only to the 3G iPhone Maps application.

Tagggit have termed the wireless positioning system “City Mode” as it functions in metropolitan areas. Loughlin Spollen, Tagggit’s founder, explains “Tagggit is at its most useful in large cities and is currently used by members to find each other in downtown areas and to leave recommendations and surprise tags for friends. However GPS is not good in built-up areas. This latest release of our mobile software will help us change the way urbanites use their phones.”

The Tagggit mobile application makes Tagggit a market leader in the geo tagging social network space. Loughlin describes this release “a major milestone for us as Tagggit members no longer have to wait for a GPS fix or stand outside to create and search for tags.” Tagggit now produces instant results without a notable delay. Tagggit members can find their location and the tags in their vicinity without waiting on a GPS fix.

The Tagggit application can be downloaded from the Tagggit.com web site."

Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:13 UTC, November 15th

Categories: Software, Events
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

News Discussion

Tzer2

Comment: I dunno... wi-fi access points come and go so quickly, and many city areas don't have any public hotspots at all. Wouldn't it make more sense to base this round phone masts?

fernando20

Comment: It found my position within meters of accuracy, indoors, and without using gps. :o Color me impressed.

Compare, where it detected me: [url]http://www.tagggit.com/site/siteViewTag.aspx?ID=0c5b088b-c51e-4e76-9f77-daa7d9ad22fd#[/url] to where I was: [url]http://maps.msu.edu/interactive/index.php?location=ub[/url]

Tzer2

Comment: Fernando20, try moving about though and see how it keeps up. One position might just be a fluke, the same way phone mast positioning sometimes is.

seki

Comment: For those of you with N96, N85 and N79's this app should work just fine.

FYI .. don't even try to install "install 1, 2 & 3" from the tagggit download - just install #4 .. you should be all go .. once you configure your ID etc ..

I'm happy to report that city mode works quite well indoors (ie no GPS reception) here in Central Christchurch, New Zealand.

Hope this helps :)

brianodwyer

Comment: I am trying this beauty out and have registered an account but I cannot see anywhere if it's free or if there are costs (over the GPRS costs of course). Anyone know about this?

spolman

Comment: Hi Brian,
Yeah, Tagggit's completely free. As you said, it needs a data connection so the only cost is the network traffic charges.

Shano

Comment: This works well on my n96 as well. The "city mode" setting it way more accurate that just using the GPS setting. Its a beauty of an app. We need to see more of this kind of stuff!

kontraband

Comment: yeah, just got a post on Mosh about this... so will check it out.

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