Meetmoi.com is the latest in mobile based dating, where you can use your cel phone to notify you when you’re near someone that matches a profile you’re looking for.

Meetmoi.com isn’t a new concept, in fact a Japanese manufacturer produced a small egg sized device back in the late 90’s that you could program with a very simple profile, and take it with you to a bar or a public place. If you got close to someone that was interested in that profile, the device would light up, make a sound or buzz. Similar to the devices you get at the restaurant when you’re waiting for a table.

The Japanese perfected location-based dating and tracking early on, since the general public was not concerned with privacy or tracking issues like Americans were. In fact, it took until 2006 for celphone makers to actually unlock the celphone GPS chipsets and give developers access to the technology. By the time the American public demand was enough such that it overrode the ‘privacy’ concern blocking the release.

Meetmoi.com is a solid first start, seems they have venture funding backing them, but the subscription charge is a bit steep, and it’s definitely a volume game. If you do the quick math, i.e. 50 states, x 100 cities in each state give or take, then 10 main bars within each city, well that’s 50,000 unique locations. If you had 50,000 users, or even 100,000 users, and all of them happened to be online at the same time, then you might meet one or two people. So in order for this to work, you’d have to have a gargantuan user base like Facebook or Myspace in order to really meet someone, as the odds are going to be about 10% to 15% of people will be online and out at any one particular time.

Other ideas have been presented along these lines within the location-based computing effort that started in the US in around 2002-2004. In fact the most promising applications seemed to come from the gay community, as there was a high demand for real-time, instant ‘hook-ups’ in already established known locations. Also, it was an affinity group that was not shy about hooking up, so meetmoi.com could get its legs through the gay community.

Over all, meetmoi.com is a a great way to meet up with someone while traveling, as it truly is location based, and in real-time.