CitySense.com - Mobile Signals Tell Where's Hot

Here’s another cool app that’ll either make you salivate or quiver in fear of the Orwellian implications. CitySense is a new downloadable application for your Blackberry (iPhone coming soon) that let’s you find out where the party’s at. How? This is the Orwellian bit. CitySense uses technology from its parent company Macrosense which is able to track billions of bits of data based on cell phones, GPS, WiFi and much more. So by sensing where people are, and then by using Yelp or Google to link to that location, you can find out where’s popular or not. The popular clubs, bars etc appear as a red blotch on the map. What’s more, once you use it long enough, it learns what you like and hooks you up with people like you. Currently, the results are only available in San Francisco.

“Citysense was built to show you where the action is, right now.
Using a billion points of GPS and WiFi positioning data from the last few years – plus real-time feeds – Citysense sees S.F. from above and puts the top live hotspots in your hand. You don't even need to sign up, just go to citysense.com on your BlackBerry, download, and open.”

This is very cool technology indeed. You can read all the ads and reviews you want, but you never know if it’s hit or miss. So when you want real data, cell phones don’t lie.

Will users like the Orwellian implications? Can it reach critical mass? Will the technology be used for what it was meant for? Will it drain cell phone batteries?