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[Al-khiyal]

SatLav website tells you where to go when you need to go

February 11, 2008 -- Mobile World Congress delegates who have imbibed too much complementary coffee while trawling the exhibition stands in Barcelona this week can find relief on their mobile phone by accessing a new service which tells you where to go when you err... need to go.

MizPee, created by San Francisco-based Yojo Mobile, provides location details of toilets and allows users to rate them - based on the number of toilet rolls they would award the facility for its cleanliness.

The company, which has been running the service across a clutch of American cities for the past six months, has added Barcelona to its roster of locations in time for the MWC. It also has information about facilities in Paris, London and Rome.

The site - which can be easily accessed on an internet-enabled mobile phone by going to MizPee - also provides downloadable 'reading materials' under the banner of 'Looisms' for anyone who wants a distraction.

The site has information about whether the toilet is public or connected with a restaurant or pub and for patrons only, whether there is a charge and if there are disabled or nappy-changing facilities.

The site relies on users to help populate its directory of toilets by uploading information about loos they have used and rating them.

As it has only just launched this side of the Atlantic, some areas are lacking in detail. A search for a toilet near The Guardian building, for instance, produced a result nearly a mile away which the desperate might find something of a hike - and the loo only scored two toilet rolls. In the US, however, MizPee claims to have helped over 130,000 unique users.

President and former Nokia executive, Peter Olfe, who founded Yojo Mobile with colleague Dhana Pawar three years ago, writes on the company's blog that "the real inspiration, if you can call it that, came from a visit to a public bathroom in a public building ... The smell of the facilities was so bad that after only two minutes I had a splitting headache. I thought (or silently screamed) 'if I only knew where there was a clean toilet in this area that I could just walk in and use!'"

[Al-khiyal]

Mizpee.eu

[Bent_Bladi]

he hehehe.... HEHEHEEH.... HEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEE!!!!

PAH! clean toilets... you don't know what slimy butt sat on those things....

when in doubt - use a hole

[amalgamate]

craaaazyyy!! forget all this techno stuff- all ya gotta do is ask.

[Bent_Bladi]

... or carry around a port -o- potty

[amalgamate]

you little maggot- if you were in front of me right now i'd squash you to oblivion.

or stuff you in a portapotty and sell you to the next clean freak that asks for a restroom break so you'd just pop your head out and say, 'YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND' !!

[Bent_Bladi]

is that all you got