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Social networking for iPhone: Fliq your friends

by Steven Sande Oct 21st 2008 at 4:00PM

Fliq from Mark/SpaceLongtime Mac developer Mark/Space, Inc. has just announced their first app for iPhone, and it's free.

Fliq (click opens iTunes) runs on the iPhone and iPod touch and is billed as a "real-time social networking app between friends in close proximity." If you and your friends are on the same Wi-Fi network, and if the free Fliq app is running on all of your iPhone or iPod touch devices, you can send contacts and photos to each other.

Upon launching Fliq, a list of nearby devices also running Fliq is displayed (see screenshot). After selecting who to Fliq information to, a screen prompts you to send your pre-selected "business card", another contact, or a photo to the other iPhone.

In practice, Fliq works very well. My wife and I were able to send photos and contact information back and forth with no issues. I'd like to see Bluetooth transfer capabilities built in for those situations where there's no nearby Wi-Fi network.

The Fliq Web page notes that Fliq will soon have the ability to transfer contacts and photos to a Mac or Windows PC.

In the interest of full disclosure, blogger Steve Sande has done consulting work for Mark/Space in the past, although not for this product.

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Zharko

This is simular to the Storyz app. the difference is that Storyz is a multy-platform application, you can use it on your pc, on your normal mobile phone, or with your iphone, and your friends don't need to be on the same wifi network with you
And also you can send and recieve videos with it.

December 25 2008 at 1:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jackson Myers

Sounds interesting. Only problem is nobody else is on my wifi network to try it with. Maybe on campus at my university it could be interesting.

October 21 2008 at 10:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Raphael

Bluetooth can't be done. Stellar journalism from TUAW once again :)

October 21 2008 at 7:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Terje

Ther is another app that does the same. Moot (http://moot.com). But thay are still working on the iPhone/osx version :(

October 21 2008 at 6:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jorn

weatherman: Twinkle does similar proximity stuff. Sure, without the file-transfer goo. (Although, I can post photos.)

October 21 2008 at 6:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ondra Soukup

ad bluetooth - can't be done, Apple doesn't allow any developing for that part of the iPhone, just their headset profile and that's it. Noone can even connect bluetooth GPS to their "old" iPhone.

ad social networking - this is retarded, why ? on the same wifi ? C'mon, even if it's a school campus, you can walk across it in 5 minutes and even have a smoke :D

October 21 2008 at 4:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jorn

This sounds a lot like what Twinkle can do, only far less useful.

October 21 2008 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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weatherman

Uh, Twinkle is a twitter app. Not the same thing. :-)

October 21 2008 at 5:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mr kitty

I'm not sure I'd call that "social networking". Sounds more like contact & photo transfer application.

Social Networking to people on the same wifi network would be kind of retarded. I mean, if they're on the same wifi, they're close enough to walk over and talk to, right?

October 21 2008 at 4:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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