Geo-tagged Pocket Life status updates on your facebook profile

It is out now – click here to check it out on facebook.

The team has been working hard to come up with a all new way to integrate Pocket Life with facebook. The result is a first of its kind since it allows you to show your Pocket Life status updates geo-tagged on your facebook wall and profile. But not only that: you can basically see all locations, places and geo-tagged photos of yourself and of your friends from within facebook. Check it out!

Friends, Places and Phtos from Pocket Life on your facebook app

How to set up the “Pocket Life for facebook” application on facebook to get the most out of it:
1) Go here to go to the facebook app page and click “Go to application” on the wall of that page
2) Click “allow” on upcoming facebook pop ups. This will enable Pocket Life to work properly with facebook
3) Once you have logged in and see the first screen of the application on facebook, please log in at www.pocketlife.com and update your location once
4) Then, on facebook go to the “Account” drop down menu and click “Application settings”. In the Pocket Life line item click “Edit settings” and in the Profile tab click “add” for Box and “add” for Tab. Confirm with “Okay”
5) Go to your facebook Profile and click the Boxes tab. In the Pocket Life box click the pen in the upper right corner and click “Move to wall tab”.

Let us know what you think – and expect more fun features to come. This is only another starting point and we  are excited to make it even better and useful for you.

Enjoy and… See you on Pocket Life

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Pocket Life now also enables location based shopping.

If you set your location to anywhere in Australia, you can now experience the best of pre-shopping on our web application, just log on to Pocket Life at http://www.pocketlife.com or on your iPhone.

This special shopping application on the iPhone combines the best social networking experience with the power of location based pre-shopping, enabled by Lasoo, the leading pre-shopping service in Australasia. In addition to all the Pocket Life networking features, if you are user in Australia you can search and review the latest up-to-date product deals around your location. Go to ‘Search Nearby’ in your iPhone App map section and simply type in any product you are looking for and view the best deals around your vicinity on the map.

So no matter if you are looking for the latest digital camera or handbags, you will find the best deal on Pocket Life Shopping.
You will receive retailer details, offer details, including image, price and description of the product and are able to contact the retailer or view the location on a map. Best of all, you can then save the offer details in your favourites menu and share the deals with your Pocket Life friends and later manage and review all your favourite deals on the Pocket Life and Lasoo websites. You will be able to quickly search for thousands of offers and locate what’s on sale from more than 50 of Australia’s biggest retailers and instantly enjoy shopping with your friends. We have introduced this feature first in Australia and New Zealand and it will be rolled out globally after a trial phase.

Check it out today and set the location to Australia, then go to ‘search’ in the ‘Maps section’ and search via the Lasoo product icon. Download the app from the AU iTunes store to your iPhone here:

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You can now show your Pocket Life location on a map directly on your facebook profile page. Just search for the application “My Pocket Life Location” and add it to your facebook profile page. Your location will be automatically updated once you change your mobile or web location on Pocket Life. But don’t worry: for privacy reasons the facebook application only shows the city you are in, not the detailed street address. Please note that you have to set up and authorise facebook integration first within your Pocket Life account – just follow the steps at Pulse -> Manage Feeds on the web version.

This integration is another step in bringing the best of both worlds together. As you might know, you can also integrate your facebook friends’ status and news updates into your Pocket Life Pulse Stream (go to Pulse -> Manage Feeds on the web version). Enjoy and share the application with your facebook friends!

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We have received many improvement suggestions from users and now we bring you another new feature further enhancing your Pocket Life. Be it friends, favourites or photos: Pocket Life now features rich map call outs that give you all the information and interaction options you need at your fingertips.

For example when you see a friend on the map now you will directly see his last status update and his location. By clicking on the drop down menu you can then chose quick interaction options like sending a message or an email, get directions to him or add his current location to your favourites. Similar rich map call outs are now available of favourites and geo-tagged photos. Check out this new great feature right now.

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Some people are concerned by the concept that a service might broadcast their current location, one of the last bastions of privacy, out onto the Internet. That is why we have tackled security and privacy as being of utmost importance with Pocket Life.

With Pocket Life sharing your location is completely ‘opt in’, this means you have to specifically turn visibility on and you have full control over who you share your location with.

One of the main features we have included is a fine grained control over sharing based on assigning your contacts to groups. Once a contact is assigned to a group you set what is shared with that group, so you can still be connected to your boss without sharing location while safely sharing your pinpoint location to your friends of the new bar you are at.

From your mobile we use GPS to send your location, this means that your phone has to be on with Pocket Life running to update your current position. From here we make it really easy to turn your location updating on or off by simply pressing and holding the * key (or via the ‘options’ menu). When your location is turned to off (i.e. grey icon) no one can locate you.

You can also choose to set your location manually and leave it set to whatever location you choose. If you don’t have a GPS built into your phone you can still set your location, however you need to set your location manually every time.

What this all means is you don’t have to worry about sharing your location automatically by signing up to Pocket Life. You can also use the service without sharing your location at all and still use all the great features to find things around you.

Here in the lab we love the location sharing features and especially some of the really cool stuff like watching your close friends move on the map in real time all from your handset, try it out.

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