From the local news to the far-flung international press, the media is a-buzz about Skyhook’s AIM location plugin that lets AIM users share their physical locations with their online buddies. The innovative new feature uses Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System to determine a user’s location and then displays that info to their buddies who are close by and also sharing location.

Adding location knowledge to AIM is a exciting new way to bridge digital and physical socializing. For example, it eliminates the typical:

“Where are you?”
“Oh, I’m at Les Deux waiting for Britney and Paris.”

OR:

“What’s up?”
“Chillin at Rocky Mountain Supply waiting for my new camo pants.”

Think about how much time that saved me this weekend alone!

You can download the plugin here.

How cool would that be? Seems like some crafty little fellers got a hold of some super secret stuff about location-based gaming and posted it on Engadget. Naughty, naughty.