The annual SXSW Festival is on, and this year I am surprised by the number of location-aware mobile services being launched in Austin, Texas, many of them for Apple’s iPhone.
- SocialBomb launched its Paparazzi game, which allows you to click and share photos of your friends and having them mapped to location. I love this little game. Too bad I have moved off the iPhone platform.
- Dennis Crowley, creator of Dodgeball is back for an encore with Foursquare, which turns nightlife into a game (at least for those who live in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin). The New York Times has a review of the service.
- Pelago launched Whrrl 2.0, which allows you to share your day and life based on location, using photos and text, to a private network of friends.
- Lastly, check out Gowalla, a location-based travel game by Alamofire.
Most of these apps are leveraging the built-in GPS features of the iPhone and its user interface to create a new kind of user experience. (Related Post: The Commoditization of GPS & the Golden Age of Location-based Services)
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