Hipoqih is one of the projects that was presented in Startup 2.0 and it seemed that the name could be a drawback for the project to be successful. Its creators have decided to modify the name a bit mostly to make it a little easier for English speakers to pronounce it.
Hipoqih is now Ipoki, has a new logo, new design and the appearance of a social network, although its main function has not changed, which is to know the location of a person on a map through his/her mobile phone. We could say that Ipoki is like a twitter where instead of replying what you are doing, you say where you are. More than for the purpose of entertainment, this application is more useful to locate the elderly, dependant or the disabled, to locate employees of a company, …
As the basis for locating people on Ipoki is the mobile phone with GPS, the developmental work being carried out at this point is centered around making the application work on iPhone, the Blackberries and mobiles with Android.
Other aspects in which the team of Ipoki is working are integration with other applications like Flickr, Google Earth, Netvibes and iGoogle.
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