Firepin v 1.3.1 is out - sharing works again

The new version 1.3.1 is now available in the AppStore http://tinyurl.com/firepin.

We highly recommend to upgrade.

The new version of firepin for the iPhone includes essential bug fixes.

• share your trip immediately form the iPhone
• view your trips in the iPhone Maps app

Tips around Trip Sharing

Did you know that sharing works per trip?

For each trip you can decide whether you want to share or not.

• A new trip can only be seen by you.
• You can share the current trip anytime form the iPhone
• You can share any trip via our web site from a PC or Mac
• You can disable sharing for any trip via our web site from a PC or Mac

Further trip management features are available when using http://firepin.com with a desktop browser (e.g. Firefox).

Firepin's Approach to total Privacy

With almost 3 Million Geo locations stored in the firepin database we take privacy very serious. 

One obvious concern with Firepin trip tracking is that police or government organisations could use the data to track the user down or to see where they have been.

We have thought about that problem hard and long  right from the start and we came up with a great approach to keep protect users privacy. 

Firepin keeps no personal data. 

There is no way that we or anyone else could link back to the the user based on the data that is stored in the firepin database. 

Firepin's approach to ensure total privacy:

1. We don't keep a login or email
   
2. We don't store any personal data - there is no need to
3. Our "No Sign-Up Approach" means we don't store any user logins

Power to the user:

1. The Firepin app gives you access to all your recorded track.
2. Firepin must be installed on the device to authenticate on the website
3. Only the phone user can login to Firepin to see their maps or trips
4. Even if another person would get access to a users firepin account they would not be able to find out the user's identity
5. If Firepin gets uninstalled the link between your maps/tracks and yourself gets broken and there is no trace back possible.
6. The user decides how much they want to make their tracks public on their blog or website

We don't collect user data we collect geo data.

GeoUpdater and PinPoint is now Longitude

We renamed our iPhone Geo app from GeoUpdater (boring) to Longitude.

Longitude is an iPhone app that finds your current location emails a map image of your current location. It is available on the iTunes AppStore (check it out here).

Hey, is that not already available in the standard Map app on the iPhone? Not quite! The Map app can only email a link to a google map. Longitude includes an image of the map in the email. We find that more user friendly and hope you will too.

PinPoint Me New Style Map Emailer for iPhone

jTribe has submitted a new iPhone app to the AppStore. "PinPoint Me" is part of the firepin application family. This little helper application sends a Google Map Image as an email attachment. 

Based on user feedback we re-designed the app to offer a larger map and still offer the simple "two-button" approach.

Enough talk. Here are the screen shots. If you like it please stay tuned and we will announce here once Apple has approved PinPoint Me for sales in the AppStore.
  

Enable your Location Services on iPhone

PinPoint and Firepin are not working without the iPhone Location Services enabled.

To enable the Location Services go to your iPhone Settings

Then check that Location Services are switched on. 

1 Million Geo Locations in Firepin

Wow, we are very impressed with the speed and volume of Geo Locations hitting our server. 

Yesterday the 1 Million mark was reached. Yes, more than 1,000,000 locations are now stored on the firepin server within just over a month.

This is very encouraging for us and we will see how we can keep this service free for our loyal users.

Thanks to all our users out there using Firepin Trip Tracker on the iPhone or Android G1 phone!

PinPoint for iPhone now on AppStore

PinPoint is the latest app in the Firepin family.

It's an easy to use app that lets you find & share the Address of your current location.

Get it now on the Apple AppStore with iTunes