Just 'Glympse Me'

Imagine, you’re at the NAR® convention, among 1000’s of people, and an associate is trying to find you…

Or you’re at a listing, about to show it to potential buyers, but they’re new to the area and lost.

Just Glympse™ them! Huh??!

Glympse™ is a brilliantly conceived mobile application that lets you share your real-time location via SMS, email, Twitter, or Facebook. It's a useful, easy-to-use tool that doesn't require you to sign up, create any profiles, or invite contacts. Your location is only shared for the duration you specify and then stops.

With Glympse, you don’t send the address; you merely send a Glympse of your current location, and with a tap on the recipient’s screen, they navigate their way there. Or if you're not yet at the location, you might send them a Glympse showing it on a map, as well as your real-time location as you make your way there. There are so many possibilities with such a powerful, location-aware application.

The Glympse app is clean and refreshingly simple to use. To get started, launch the app, hit Menu, then Send a Glympse. Next, input a phone number or e-mail, or choose to share a Glympse with Facebook or Twitter. Set the duration (anywhere from 10 minutes to 4 hours), and that's it. For the allotted time frame, your contact(s) will be able to view your real-time location on a map, from a mobile device or desktop browser. If you're on the move, you can also input your destination, so your contact can see where you're headed.

For those who routinely use Glympse to transmit a location (e.g., children with eagle-eyed parents), the app includes a nice Favorite feature, which saves the recipient(s) of your Glympse, duration, and destination, all for easy sending later. The app also comes with an optional home-screen widget, which puts Favorites, Glympse History, and Send Glympse functionality right on your home screen.

Glympse is an incredibly useful app that has the potential to become incorporated into many of our daily routines. Try it out for yourself, and see if you and your friends start saying, "just Glympse me."
It’s available for Android, iPhone, WinPhone7, and Blackberry. http://glympse.com/get_glympse
Sources: CNET, Glympse