BOULDER — Want to find out the “relationship status” of that girl at the bar before asking to buy her a drink?
Richard Han, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has developed an iPhone application that allows users to check out the Facebook profiles of others around them.
CU and TechoShark Inc. — a Boulder-based company started in February by Han and his graduate and Ph.D. students — have an exclusive licensing agreement on the technology. The application, selling at Apple’s App Store for $1.99, is dubbed “hoozat.”
Here’s how the application works: Users turn on the application and can connect people, based on location, via Facebook. The application gives general location, showing how far away fellow users are in kilometers, and doesn’t use pinpoint mapping. Eventually, users could set their preferences so their LinkedIn profiles are displayed during the work week and their Facebook pages are revealed on the weekend, Han said.
