We've seen other Facebook/Google Maps mashups before, but this one's different from other friend-mappers. It's fast, it takes just a few seconds to click into, and suddenly it's dropping little pins all over the globe, showing you precisely where your pals reside. Says one of its developers, Ajay Mehta:
"Surprisingly, there aren't a lot of apps like this. There were a few that were very poorly developed and eventually canceled years ago. They weren't this visual either, most had a lame loading bar or something similar and the mapping was laggy/slow. We have friends pop onto the map in a cool, interactive way (which was the hardest part to hack together)."
Mehta and fellow college freshmen Wesley Zhao and Dan Shipper developed the mashup, which gives you a quick way to remind yourself that you're not in Kansas anymore, and neither are your friends. Unless, of course, you all live in Kansas.