As many of you know, I worked in the mobile location (LBS) space for nearly 4 years while GM of Seeker Wireless, and as such I still have a real passion for the LBS space. I have been following closely what Google have been doing with Google Mobile Maps, Google latitude, and now the Google [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 6, 2009
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Tagged auomatic location, cell-ID, cellular location, find me, gmm, google latitide update, Google latitude, google location api, google location sharing, google mobile maps, latitude api, lbs, locate me, location, location services, locaton based services, mobile advertising, mobile social networking, where am i, WiFi location
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I’m delighted to see Google launch their Latitude product, as I have been saying for some time privately as well as during my numerous presentations on location and location advertising that this would be the next step for Google mobile maps (GMM). As Google have the monopoly on worldwide automated location determination (via their GMM [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 5, 2009
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Tagged blogloc, fireeagle, gmm, google, Google latitude, google mobile maps, lba, lbs, locatik, location based services, location sharing, Mapmytracks, mobile advertising, mobile location, nokia maps, Palringo, Puskaradio, social networking
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Being an expat Australian now living in London, I seem to always be the first to spot a lost tourist with an unfolded map in my local area. At the rate of about 2 a week at the moment, either I am approached for directions (I look friendly!) or I make the approach to lost souls [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 29, 2008
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Tagged directions, E71, expat Australian, giving local directions, gmm, google mobile maps, gps, lbs, location, lost tourists, mobile applications, Mobile Applications, nokia e71, travel directions
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 28, 2008
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Tagged cloudmade, fire eagle, Gary Gale, geo, geo meetup, google, lbs, location, location based advertising, mobile advertising, Nick Black, Open Street Map, slideshare, yahoo
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I’ve been invited to speak at the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup next Thursday 27th November – hosted by Google at their offices in Victoria. Christopher Osborne has put together an exciting program for the first event with three exciting presenters: Yahoo Fire Eagle – Gary Gale (Yahoo! Geo Technologies) CloudMade/Open Street Map – Nick Black [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 19, 2008
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Tagged cloudmade, Developers Meetup, Gary Gale, Geo Mobile, google, lba, lbs, location, location based services, london, Nick Black, november 27, Open Street Map, yahoo
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I was honoured to be asked to chair, speak and also sit on a panel at the IIR Location 2008 conference in Berlin this week. It was quite a conference on a number of fronts, and over the weekend I will be providing a more comprehensive review. In the meantime, have a look at James [...]
Congratulations to the team at my old company, Seeker Wireless who have picked up the Vodafone Innovation Partner of the Year award from Vodafone New Zealand. As the one responsible for the Vodafone New Zealand deal in the first place (I was their 3rd employee back in 2004 and ran Sales and Business Development), it is great [...]
On Wednesday 24th September, the British Computer Society (BCS) will be hosting an evening on Location Based Services – details are below: Wednesday 24th September 18:15 – 20:00 BCS London 1st Floor, The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street London, WC2E 7HA This is free event sponsored by the BCS North London Branch: Mobile Location-Based Services (LBS) [...]
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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 4, 2008
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 26, 2008
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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. [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 23, 2008
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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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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 Grill
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Posted August 8, 2008
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Tagged cell-ID, google, gps, location, maps, mashup, mobile, mobile advertising, my location, Nokia, zagme
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For some time now, the Subscriber Identity Module – more commonly known as the SIM – has been pushed away from the limelight to make way for the new ‘shining stars’ such as instant messaging, mobile marketing and social networking. It is now time for the SIM to take a new lease of life and [...]
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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 16, 2008
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Tagged advertising, bright kite, cell-ID, fire eagle, google, gypsii, locatik, location, location applications, locr, msearchgroove, nokia maps, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook wireless, sniffu, WiFi, yahoo
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…well not really. The summary from the official Google mobile blog reads “Wireless phones can make and receive calls because they are connected over the air to a nearby cell tower. The phone knows the ID of the cell tower that it’s currently using. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone [...]
I spoke with Bryan Stockwell from Mobile Commerce at the Navigation & Location Europe conference here in Amsterdam and he told me that they are behind the service I mentioned in an earlier post about the Microsoft LIVE local search product in the UK. Bryan was on a panel I chaired at the Mobile Location Europe [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 5, 2008
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Tagged cell-ID, cellID, conference, google, lbs, location, mapping, microsoft, mobile commerce, Nokia
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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? [...]
Microsoft quietly launched a new feature on the mobile version of their live website at http://m.live.comhere in the UK. As you can see from the screenshots below, there is now a “find me” button. Users in the UK who access m.live.com from their native WAP browser (would not work on Opera Mobile or Opera Mini) are [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 31, 2008
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Tagged cell-ID, google, live, live.com, local search, location, location search, microsoft live, my location, search
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 26, 2008
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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 [...]
Andrew will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference, organised by Telematics Update magazine on June 4th – 5th at the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam. Built on the long running success of 4 years of navigation conferences, Navigation and Location Europe 2008 represents the next step forward for the industry. Joining Nokia, [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 6, 2008
in applications, conference, location, mobile, speaking
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Tagged conference, lbs, location, navigation, telematics, update
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The article in the Times states “Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.” The service is apparently coming to the UK soon, from US company [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 1, 2008
in applications, location, mobile, privacy
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Tagged facebook, lbs, liberty, location, media, networking, online, sniff, social, times, tracking
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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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 Grill
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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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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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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 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 20, 2008
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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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Following on from my earlier post on the new My Location feature on Google Mobile Maps, and after having used the application for the last month, I thought I’d provide an update on usability in a range of real world situations. While I have been testing it everywhere I have travelled in December (London, Bristol, [...]
Consumers Ready for Wireless Location-Based Services; 2005 Will be a Strong Year for Carrier Deployments SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., December 9, 2004 – Location-Based Services (LBS) in the US wireless consumer market may finally be poised to realize their long-hyped potential, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). With Enhanced 911 capabilities deployed in many areas and a fast-growing base [...]
