ImaHima

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ImaHima was a mobile location-based social-networking service created in 1999 and shut down in 2006. [1] This service was launched by the Japanese company of the same name, founded by Neeraj Jhanji. [2] This Japanese name means "are you free now?" [3] This company pioneered the concept of sharing current status (location, activity, mood) among friends using mobile phones. Initially ImaHima started out as an "unofficial" [4] service but was later accepted inside the walled garden of the Japanese mobile carriers (NTT DoCoMo, [5] KDDI, Softbank). At its peak, ImaHima had over 500,000 users in Japan and was also made available in Switzerland and Australia. The service won a few awards including the coveted Prix Ars Electronica in 2001. [6] The fundamental patents for mobile checkin, status updates and location-based advertising pioneered by ImaHima were acquired by Facebook in 2013. [7]

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  1. ↑ "Prix Ars Electronica Archives". 2001-09-03. Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  2. ↑ Choudhury, Saheli Roy (9 June 2016). "Neeraj Jhanji created mobile status updates and check-ins, long before Facebook". CNBC. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "US Patent". 1999-12-14. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  4. ↑ Guth, Robert A. (2000-08-18). "The Wall Street Journal" . Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  5. ↑ "Wired - Listening Post". 2001-04-01. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  6. ↑ "Prix Ars Electronica Archives". 2001-09-03. Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
  7. ↑ "Facebook Buys 100 Patents To Spur Virtual Reality, Video, Speech". Forbes . 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2015-01-06.
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