RadiusIM.com - The Social IM

RadiusIM isn´t just another site where you can combine all of your IM accounts at one time. What makes it special is its inclusion of maps, letting you know who is close by of the people you´re chatting with, including other users of radiusIM. In this way, you can make new friends based on your location, or other locations you search for. Another nice thing is that it is completely web based, so there´s no downloading necessary, and you can check to see who´s nearby while you´re online anywhere. Based on the location you log into, your near by friends´ pictures will appear as the background to the IM screen, and some of the pictures will show up directly on the map where they are located. It´s a cool way to visualize where others are IMing from and make new friends who happen to be IMing near you.

“radiusIM is Social IM. It´s the only website that shows you where your friends are hanging out and lets you surf for other people based on location. It supports all the major networks: MSN, AIM/ICQ, Yahoo, and GTalk/Jabber. And you can use radiusIM from anywhere because there are no downloads.”

It adds a new element to IMing that people will enjoy. It creates a new social network just based on location, and it is true that location is one of the biggest deciding factors on who you end up with.

How are they planning on making a profit? How will they spread the word about their site so that many other people become members and it actually forms a network? Will they expand and improve location information and details to other parts of the world, so that people could chat internationally, or see who´s near by while they are traveling and use the site as a resource for new travel buddies in that sense?