London Calling has a wide and varied audience, and sometimes on the comments section on individual posts we see some real gems.
Last week, Rainer Simon at BlogLoc left a comment on my Locatik service launch post about his own location service.
Curious to find out more, I headed over to www.blogloc.com to satisfy my curiosity.
Rainer told [...]
By andrew
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Posted September 4, 2008
in location
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Tagged blog location, blog location badge, blogloc, blogs, fire eagle, fireeagle, google gears, gps, gps location, lbs, location, mobile location
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Since the Symbian smartphone show in 2007, I have been trialing the Locatik location based social networking service from the team at Psiloc.
These are the guys who are well known for developing quality symbian software including psiloc connectwhich is the first application I load onto any new Nokia.
It has now been released as version 1.0 and [...]
By andrew
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Posted August 26, 2008
in location
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Tagged cell-ID, fire eagle, friend finder, google mobile maps, gps, lbs, locatik, location, location based, location enabled social networking, psiloc, social networking
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As foreshadowed by Charles Wiles at the Mobile Monday London event in July, and as announced on the Google Mobile official blog as well as on Charles’ blog, the Google Gears API is now location enabled for both desktop browsers (via IP address) as well as mobile browsers (windows mobile only at the moment) using cell-ID or GPS.
This [...]
By andrew
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Posted August 23, 2008
in location
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Tagged andriod, cell-ID, Charles Wiles, geolocation api, google gears, google location, gps, lastminute, lbs, location advertising, location based services, mobile advertising, mobile monday, operator independent location, rummble, symbian
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This post has just been featured at WOM World/Nokia.
Just over a week ago I took delivery of a shiny new Nokia E71. Those who have been following London Calling lately will know that I have been waiting excitedly for the E71 to be released, having been an early adopter of both the E61 and E61i.
After a [...]
By andrew
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Posted August 9, 2008
in Nokia
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Tagged business phone, E series, E71, E71 experience, e71 goodlink, flickr, goodlink, goodlink e71 keyboard, goodlink nokia bug, google mobile maps, gps, handy taskman, hsdpa, iphone killer, Nokia, nokia e series, nokia e71, Nokia E71 power user, nokia E71 review, nokia maps, nokia upgrade, psiloc connect, should I buy a Nokie E71, ShoZu, WOM World Nokia
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Google appear to be the front runners at the moment - is their lead assailable?
With Google’s current domination of the maps space thanks to Google Maps, and their recent upgrade of mobile maps to include my location, and the rumours circulating that soon they will open up their cell-ID database API to third parties - [...]
By andrew
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Posted August 8, 2008
in location
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Tagged cell-ID, google, gps, location, maps, mashup, mobile, mobile advertising, my location, Nokia, zagme
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It’s been over a year since Mobile Monday visited the subject of Location and now is a great time to revisit with a raft of alternate approaches to LBS.
This month’s event is kindly sponsored by Skyhook Wireless and will be held on Monday the 14th of July at the usual venue of the CBI Conference Centre near [...]
I’m moderating the location stream at the Being-Digital conference in London on June 10th and I was wondering what readers of London Calling see as the hot issues in location.
Here are some initial thoughts - and I’d welcome any comments below
What value do consumers place on location?
Can location information be viewed as inventory?
Is there more value [...]
Welcome to All About Symbian readers - looks like we’ve had a flood of traffic from the post by Steve Litchfield titled Ruminations on cell-id location in Nokia Maps 2.0.
I have been using Nokia maps for some time now, and following the launch of their V2.0 beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I have been [...]
By andrew
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Posted May 26, 2008
in location
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Tagged gmm, google, google mobile maps, gps, lbs, location, location inventory, maps, my location, Navteq, Nokia, nokia maps
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Recently I was asked to respond to some questions around Location Based Advertising as part of an opinion piece. I thought it would be useful to republish my responses here, and promote some debate on the issue of location based advertising.
What does location based (aware) advertising actually entail? Could you give some real life examples?
Location [...]
I found a fascinating article in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here, MIT have been provided with real time phone records from AT&T and they have a live map of the different connections happening [...]
By andrew
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Posted April 20, 2008
in opinion
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Tagged advertising, connections, Exchange, geography, geography of power, global, gps, gsma, location, MIT, mobile, Modern, Museum, new, new york museum of modern art, NYTE, power, profiling, targeted advertising, targted advertising, time, user, York, youtube
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When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]
By andrew
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Posted March 30, 2008
in social networking
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Tagged fireeagle, geotag, go, google, gps, gypsii, jaiku, locatik, location, locr, Loki, mobile, networking, Nokia, presence, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook, social, wireless, yahoo, zonetag
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Over at Gigaom, a story about SiRF Technologies laying off workers has started a discussion around “the end of the GPS party”. Read the full article here
Quoting from Gigaom “SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due to [...]
By andrew
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Posted March 25, 2008
in location, mobile
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Tagged eagle, fire, google, gps, location, mobile, navigation, networking, pnd, sirf, social, yahoo
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With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as
m.facebook.com
m.linkedin.com
m.twitter.com
m.youtube.com
m.myspace.com
(ps notice a pattern here - no .mobi extension for these major sites - does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner)
..it got me thinking about the link between the PC version of a [...]
By andrew
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Posted March 23, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, media, mobile, social networking
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Tagged cellID, facebook, gps, lbs, location, Loki, mobile, networking, social, WiFi
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A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle. Being a former practitioner in the Location industry, I rushed to the site, only to find I needed an invitation. Luckily David Recordon from sixapart (movable type) was kind enough to send me one. For those of you trying to [...]
By andrew
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Posted March 16, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged aware, dopplr, eagle, fire, fireeagle, gps, lbs, location, skyhook, sms, WiFi, wireless, yahoo
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I noticed a story (with accompanying video) on the BBC Click website titled Rise and rise of the GPS mobile.
Like many stories at the moment about GPS, the author makes a few generalisations.
In the closing paragraphs, the BBC reporter Marc Cieslak notes
“This location based technology does throw up the potential for annoying features however.
If retailers [...]
By andrew
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Posted March 9, 2008
in advertising, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged ads, advertising, advertisment, detection, gps, Local, location, maps, mobile, navigation, Nokia
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Much has been written on the “Davos Effect”, where the musings at this annual event from senior executives of large companies such as Google and Sony actually become true, or at least offer a window into the current thinking or focus of a particular company or industry segment.
By now, many of you will have read the summary [...]
By andrew
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Posted January 27, 2008
in opinion
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Tagged 2008, 3G, advertising, advertisment, broadband, conference, consumer, convergence, creative, davos, Eric, gmm, google, gps, handsets, industry, internet, lbs, location, mapping, marketing, microsoft, mobile, mylocation, navigation, positioning, predictions, privacy, Schmidt, search, social networking, web, wireless
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I caught the release from Reuters Google CEO bullish on mobile Web advertising which quotes from Eric Schmidt’s speech at Davos.
Of interest, and quoting directly from the Reuter’s release…
The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution”, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said [...]
By andrew
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Posted January 26, 2008
in mobile
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Tagged advertising, conference, davos, Eric, gmm, google, gps, internet, Local, location, mobile, mylocation, positioning, Schmidt, search
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Over at MobHappy which Carlo Longino describes as the “spiritual home” of Carnival of the Mobilists, there is again a wide range of commentary on a range of subjects including…
Dennis at WAP Review takes a look at mobile email WAP sites, and wonders why they don’t offer many of the same features as their desktop [...]
By andrew
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Posted January 21, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged 3G, advertising, apple, barcelona, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, conference, convergence, data, dongle, google, gps, handsets, MobHappy, mobilists, wap
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As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware. Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye.
Then over the next few days others commented [...]
By andrew
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Posted January 20, 2008
in location
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Tagged advertising, apple, google, google my location, gps, iphone, lbs, Local, location, london, mapping, maps, marketing, mobile, mylocation, positioning, skyhook
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I just had a look at the new Google My Location service launched this week. Being a Location expert, I have been looking closely to see how well it works. On first pass, it is quite similar to the Psiloc Locatik service launched at the Symbian Smartphone show in London in October.
The raw inputs to the service [...]
Andrew Grill will be presenting at MobilMedia Kongress 2007 - Speaking on the topic “HomeZone and beyond” - how new location search and mobile marketing solutions can use location technology without needing GPS. Other companies presenting include Microsoft and Tom Tom. More details at http://www.mm-kongress.de/
