A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer To You

If you are going to launch a new location app, creating an anti-Foursquare is probably not a bad idea. About a week ago, a Qualcomm owned-and-incubated business called Neer quietly launched on the Android market, and has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since then. Neer is a location-sharing app designed for private sharing between family members and people with close, real-world relationships. Instead of implicitly checking into different spots like you do with Foursquare and Gowalla , or broadcasting everywhere you go in the background like you do with Google Latitude , Neer creates geo-fences that trigger location updates to your inner circle.