Sonar (mobile application)

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Sonar
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Sonar was a free mobile application which showed the user how they are connected to other individuals in a room via publicly available social media profiles and location information from Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook. [1] [2]

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Company

Sonar was founded by Ocean City, Maryland, native Brett Martin, [3] and was launched in 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. [1] [4] Sonar is the fourth business to come out of New York-based mobile incubator K2 Media Labs, with the previous three being Fingerprint, Tracks, and MarketSharing. [3]

Sonar has been offline as of September 2013, at which time Martin stated that he was no longer working on the project. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Tsotsis, Alexia (May 23, 2011). "Sonar Finds You The Most Relevant People In The Room". TechCrunch . Retrieved July 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ Wortham, Jenna (June 4, 2011). "Focusing on the Social, Minus the Media". New York Times . Retrieved July 14, 2011.
  3. 1 2 Boyd Myers, Courtney (May 24, 2011). "Interview with Sonar: The inside story on the hyperlocal, realtime networking app". The Next Web. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Segall, Laurie (May 31, 2011). "5 hot startups at TechCrunch Disrupt". CNNMoney . Retrieved July 14, 2011.
  5. ↑ Ha, Anthony (September 17, 2013). "Yep, Social Discovery Startup Sonar Is Dead (And Its CEO Explains Why)". TechCrunch . Retrieved July 8, 2014.
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