Buddycloud takes your mobile's address book, mashes it up with our location fingerprint technology and then feeds the results back to your buddies. Buddycloud pushes (and pulls) your location, mood and intended next location to everyone else in your address book. At the same time Buddycloud will point out interesting people and locations as you move around town, and gives you a convenient way to chat with them and hook-up.
Now by looking at your phone's address book you know who's going where and who's doing what.
Please note that although you don't need a data contract for your mobile to use BuddyCloud, a good data contract is advisable if you are planning on using BuddyCloud frequently. Often a monthly charge for a flat rate is cheaper than having to pay per KB. Check with your network operator for details.
Buddycloud was started in mid 2007 by our happy team of Munichers.
Simon
Simon is the gluon that makes sure all the elementary particles of the project fit together as one atom. He is our network wizard, a cat person and part time vegetarian. Before Buddycloud he was a Systems Architect at AOL Music, and put in time running several London banking infrastructure projects.
Some of his visited places are Airport Terminal 1, Tambosi Cafe, Helge's house, Toastmasters, Soda Cafe, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Helium
Helge designed software for aeroplanes before being bitten by the mobile bug. He's currently our Location Meister and is responsible for writing the location "butler" that decides where you are and pushes updates to the address books. He is an amateur painter and composer who will turn pro as soon as someone volunteers to pay him to do so. ;)
Some of his visited places are Mariandl, Lisboa Bar, Preysinggarten, Simon's Penthouse, Orleansplatz, and Cord.
Elvis
Ross is a mobile games programmer and is responsible for the Buddycloud Symbian client software. Before joining Buddycloud he used his comunications skills to design radio communication systems for helicopters. Ross claims to be an excellent swimmer, getting by with hardly any water at all
Some of his favourite places are EADS Deutschland, Mariandl, Eurocopter Deutschland, Park Kasino, Simon's Penthouse, and Sporthaus Schuster.
Bnolan
Ben is from Neu Seeland and enjoys all manner of extreme things. Namely, punk rock, beer, rock climbing, mountain biking, snowboarding, skateboarding and a good long bath. He's the ruby on rails developer and in a previous life has started one or two moderately successful startups. He also snowboarded Zugspitze 'natural style'.
Bob
Bob is an exquisite cook as well as the business brains behind Buddycloud. Bob joins us from Nuance Communications, where he was the European sales director, and bring experience of selling into the enterprise and brings dealing with telcos.