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
in location
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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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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
in location
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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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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
in location
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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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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
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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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