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Locate your IM contacts with radiusIM
Check out who's around you via a map, and message friends with radiusIM. Neat concept. In radiusIM, you choose your location, with your friends list on the right and a location map on the left. When friends and IM contacts are online, their icons show up in their specific location on the map. radiusIM have integrated an interesting privacy and security blurring feature on the location map as well. 1/4 mile around the area of a contact is actually blurred out so that their precise location can remain semi-hidden. radiusIM requires a browser to operate, and is not a downloadable application.Unfortunately, I was not successful in signing up for the service. I keep getting an error message stating that connecting to the radiusIM servers was unsuccessful. Oh well, I'll keep trying. Nonetheless, radiusIM looks like a pretty interesting way to see who is around you, or near a certain location.
After spending the better part of an hour on 
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robotrock said 5:24PM on 8-25-2006
AIM Triton (i know, i know) has a neat location plugin
http://www.aim.com/help_faq/triton/plugins.adp?aolp=0
although I'm sure the uninformed will be too freaked out to use it.
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