You Need a POIFriend!

POIfriend.com is a Canadian based company and the city of Toronto to be precised It is essentially a social network that allows users to create and share their own POIs within their group of friends or with the entire community. Sounds pretty dumb, huh? Well, if it were just a social network to collect and share POIs then, yes, it is dumb and not worth the time to sign up, but POIfriend.com is much more than that! Pronounced like "boyfriend", Poifriend hopes to capitalize on the increasingly common use of GPS devices by serving as the key portal where people go to share this information. Users can easily choose whether to share POI's with the whole community, their friends, or specific friends and they can make comments on other people's favorite POI's. The potential uses for this site are numerous and include being able to find GPS coordinates for just about anywhere and downloading them to a GPS device for receiving detailed description along the way. Poifriend hopes to capitalize on the increasingly common use of GPS devices by serving as the key portal where people go to share this information. POIfriend helps you squeeze additional functionality out of your GPS device by taking advantage of the collaborative power of the Internet. Armed with a TomTom ONE XL, it gives a free account to sign up and work with most GPS-enabled devices and if you don't have a GPS that's not a problem. The website will allow you to map and print your POIs as well. Also, you don't have to worry about filling out a huge biography to get started. You simply provide your email. Once registered, you can choose which POIs you wish to share or keep private. It is a great idea and this site should become a key social waypoint community. The potential uses for this site are numerous and include being able to find GPS coordinates for just about anywhere and downloading them to a GPS device for receiving detailed description along the way. There are already a significant number of POI's to search through or you can upload your own POI's and share them with the community. Since POIfriend.com is constantly updated by you, the user, the information is always current and fresh. Uploading your own POIs means that there's no limit to the groups that you can create or the friends that you can involve. POIfriend allows you to share and grow your world, on the go, all the time.