• ReadWriteWeb, Friday, September 17, 2010 1:33 AM

ReadWriteWeb takes a look at Footprint Feed -- a new mobile app that lets people set up feeds to share their location with contacts via Facebook, Twitter, RSS or specific individuals via text message or email. "We usually talk about geofencing for advertisers, where a customer's proximity to a business can trigger a text message or push notification," the blog writes. "But geofencing for individual users is just fun -- if not more." (Fun's one way to put it.)

"Death to the check in," said Director Rob Cleghorn, in reference to popular location-based networks like Foursquare, which rely on users actually checking in with a few clicks on their mobile devices. "Set-up some feeds and forget about it." Footprint Feed works with Google Latitude, which runs in the background on one's phone to constantly monitor location. Users can instruct Footprint Feed where they want to "check in" ahead of time, and who they want to know about it. As ReadWriteWeb notes, one option is to have a text message sent to your parents when you land safely at the airport, "or tweet when you visit a new city."

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