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mesearchgroove.com guest post: Location-Based Social Network Apps Are The Crowd-Pleaser; Is Presence Ready For Prime Time?

Head over to msearchgroove for my next guest post on location - with a roundup of some emerging location based applications that have started to hit the market.
A summary of the post - titled “Location-Based Social Network Apps Are The Crowd-Pleaser; Is Presence Ready For Prime Time?” is below.
In-Brief: MSG’s favourite LBS pundit Andrew Grill turns [...]

Location based social network applications roundup and review

When not doing my day job, or 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 [...]

Is the GPS party about to end? Report points to SiRF job cuts and asks what has changed in the GPS world

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 [...]

First look at Fire Eagle - the Yahoo! location aware service

A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle.  Being a 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 get [...]

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 [...]