When Jimmy Buffet sings about "Gypsies in the Palace", he refers to friends who have been left at home to housesit while he’s out on tour – they wildly party and drink, much like a teenager left at home alone.
The song I think helps establish Gypsii as great name for a new location based social networking platform that connects people and content to places and networks. Gypsii was in the press last week as Garmin has now licensed Gypsii for deployment in their connected GPS devices, most likely their forthcoming Nuviphone,
Gypsii today freely downloadable for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian GPS equipped phones. It enables geotagging of content with fun and helpful method of sharing. How cool would it have been while at the ball game today to have been able to hook up with friends which otherwise unbeknownst to me, might have also been at the game? Very cool I think.
Although certainly not the only social networking site to exploit location awareness (Loopt, others), Garmin’s endorsement is a strong one, and likely going to propel them forward nicely. Interested in more on social networking, visit Social Networking Watch.
