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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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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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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