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London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup review

On Thursday 27th November, around 40 location developers attended the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup at Google HQ in London.
Given my nearly 4 years working with some of the world’s location pioneers at Seeker Wireless, I feel quite qualified to tackle the subject of location and in particular location based advertising.
First up was Gary Gale [...]

Location Based Advertising discussion at LBS 2008 in Berlin

Next week in Berlin, I have been invited to give a keynote at the LBS 2008 conference run by IIR Conferences.  I am no stranger to this event, having spoken at, sponsored and chaired the LBS 2006 conference in London, and the LBS 2007 conference in Madrid.
Since leaving Seeker Wireless in July, I have been inundated [...]

Location and advertising – a match made in Heaven?

Head over to Telematics Update where Osman Iqbal talks to Andrew Grill from Seeker Wireless and Richard Lee of Creativity Software talk about what it will take for location-based advertising to go mainstream.

Andrew and Richard will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference in Amsterdam from June 4-5.

Location Based Advertising - an introduction

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 [...]

Almost 75 percent of respondents to the latest Netsize Guide survey think location is essential for mobile content and services search

Over on the excellent MSearch Groove website, Peggy Anne Salz gives us a preview of a very interesting report to be released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.  The real attraction is the Netsize survey, the company’s first-ever online poll of some 1,800 industry professionals.

Two key takeouts - respondents to a survey for the Netsize Guide (a [...]