Meetro
Back in February I signed up for Meetro. If you don’t know what it is, “Meetro is the world’s first location-aware IM client and real-time social network — which means Meetro allows you to meet real people in your neighborhood.” Meetro also supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and Gtalk protocols. It could be a replacement to Trillian (though Astra looks freaking awesome). The reason I quit using Meetro though, was the closest people to me were like 200+ miles away. Not exactly close. To be fair this was a few months ago when the client was in beta stages. They just released 1.0 so I decided to give it a go again. The result is still the same. Closest people are about 250 miles away. Maybe when more people hear about it and sign up it will catch up. I don’t know. For some reason it doesn’t want to connect to my yahoo account and I also wish it would have tabbed IM conversations. Maybe in the next release.
Hey Mike, thanks for keeping up with what we’re working on. Yeah, the localized aspect of meetro makes it less exciting outside of dense cities, but we’re working on spreading the word, hopefully we’ll get a few more folks near you sometime soon.
btw, you can browse for nearby folks in the meetro dashboard who may not be online at the time, but could have just signed on only a few hundred feet away from you in the past. The ‘search’ tab in the dashboard will list folks by distance, if you send a note to them, they’ll get it in their email inbox.
awesome vinnie. Now i just wish i could get it to work with Yahoo. It says it’s connected but no contacts are showing up.
I think trillian uses offline yahoo contacts so it doesn’t store them on the server.
hmmm, you may be right. i don’t know. i just want something that works.
I just signed up a few days ago. My closest meetro’er is less than 1 mile. I think I recognize the guy. He lives down the block.