It's 11pm, do you know where your child is?

October 30, 2005 12:15 PM

Mologogo Track any Java/GPS enabled phone through a convienent Google Maps based interface with mologogo.
posted by phrontist (10 comments total)

Sounds good, but it hanged Safari, and FireFox (Mac) doesn't like it either.
posted by armoured-ant at 12:26 PM on October 30, 2005

me neither; It fux0red safari, ff, and opera
posted by AllesKlar at 12:36 PM on October 30, 2005

UPDATE: Mologogo is coming back to life, don't try to use the clients just yet, we will (hopefully) be fully operational by end of day Sunday Oct 30th). We experienced a major disk failure on 10/27/05. We are working to bring the service back up as soon as possible, we are deepy sorry for the inconvenience.

Also, I can't be the only one who finds this hilariously surreal that one purposely setup an account to allow a 3rd-party to know where you are at all times, can I?
posted by basicchannel at 12:36 PM on October 30, 2005

basicchannel: My feeling exactly, I wish they would just give you the applet and let you transmit your coordinates (encrypted!) to your own bloody server.
posted by phrontist at 12:37 PM on October 30, 2005

basicchannel: At least it's still optional.
posted by odinsdream at 12:40 PM on October 30, 2005

Yeah, their JS is hanging in windows firefox for me too.

Looks pretty cool though, I wish their installation was simpler and non-warranty voiding though.
posted by Matt Oneiros at 1:02 PM on October 30, 2005

by the gods, this bodes not well.
I love how they put "friends" in quotes.
Yeah, keep track of your "friends".
posted by Busithoth at 1:07 PM on October 30, 2005

Is this for any phone or Nextel only??
posted by stratastar at 4:54 PM on October 30, 2005

craptacular dhtml.
posted by 3.2.3 at 5:12 PM on October 30, 2005

Nextel only.

It's GPS-based, and until the United States catches up to the rest of the world, location-based-services will be treated like some exotic luxury.
posted by cloudscratcher at 3:15 AM on October 31, 2005