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First look at Google Latitude – location sharing made easy

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 | Posted February 5, 2009 in location | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (11)

BlogLoc: a simple where am I? for your blog

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 | Posted September 4, 2008 in location | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Location based social network applications roundup and review

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 Grill | Posted March 30, 2008 in social networking | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

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 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 | Posted March 16, 2008 in advertising, applications, gps, location, mobile, social networking | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)