Foursquare seems to be in the news a lot recently, and is starting to exhibit a similar hype curve to that of Twitter. Update 15 March 2010: with one tweet from @mrskutcher (aka Demi Moore) the battle of the location based social media platforms is now over. Now that she is on Foursquare and other [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 13, 2010
in mobile, social media
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Tagged 4sq, @andrewgrill, @aplusk, @janole, @mrskutcher, Aston Kutcher, badges, barista, barista badge, best symbian foursquare app, brightkite, check-in, Debenhams, Debenhams foursquare offer, Demi Moore, facebook, four square, foursquare, foursquare 101, foursquare advertising, foursquare business model, foursquare celebrities, foursquare currency, foursquare Demi Moore, foursquare local offer, foursquare social currency, google, gps, gravity, lba, lbs, location, location advertising, location based advertising, location based services, location based social, mayor currency, Nokia, rummble, seeker wireless, social currency, social media, social media advertising, social networks, starbucks, starbucks foursquare, sxsw, sxsw09, symbian foursquare app, twitter, what is foursquare
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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
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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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
in location
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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 am honoured to have been asked to write an article for Vodafone Receiver Magazine about the future of location which is now live on the Vodafone Receiver website. Vodafone Receiver is a fantastic initiative to bring a cross section of ideas about mobile to a wide audience. Their current theme is “Space is the Place” and [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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
in location
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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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Australian Journalist, Stuart Corner from iTWire has written an excellent short article on the new Seeker Wireless mobile advertising solution. Quoting from his report at iT Wire he says In the movie Minority Report, as the hero strides down the street video advertising billboards spring to life and address him by name: all thanks to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 17, 2008
in PR
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Tagged andrew grill, blog, corner, it wire, itwire, lbs, location, location based services, minority, report, stuart, stuart corner, triangulation
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New solution location-enables mobile advertising inventory without the need for GPS Barcelona, 12th February 2008 – Seeker Wireless, the leader in location and zone detection technology, today announced a new innovative solution for mobile advertising that applies location to standard cellular handsets to drive adoption of mobile advertising. The SeekerZone™ Mobile Advertising Platform provides the [...]
UPDATE: February 19th 2008: read the guest post over on MSearchGroove.com I first met Peggy Anne Salz at a mobile search and discovery conference in London in March, 2007 and I have been following her Msearchgroove.com blog and business ever since. I believe the site has quickly become the central hub for all things around [...]
Interview: Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless on location based services Seeker Wireless has developed solutions to provide location based services on existing unmodified 2G and UTMS handsets. I asked Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless an open question on his view of the future of wireless based location [...]
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2006/nov/16/news5.html London, November 16 2006 – Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service providers, announced today that it will be showcasing its unique range of location solutions at the forthcoming Location Based Services 2006 Conference, to be held at the Hilton Olympia in London from November 20th – 23rd. The company has developed [...]
Seamless integration with fixed network services is the goal of many mobile operators, but available solutions all have major shortcomings. An Australian wireless location specialist claims to have come up with technology that addresses these. The solution developed by Seeker Wireless in essence relies on a small application running in the cellphone which is ableto [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 3, 2006
in PR
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Tagged convergence, fixed mobile convergence, fixed mobile substitution, fms, home zone, homezone, LBS.location based advertising, local zone, location based services, seeker wireless, vodafone, vodafone new zealand, vodafone romania
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The Australian launch of high accuracy location based services became one step closer with the news that local LBS solution provider Seeker Wireless has achieved sub 100m location accuracy in the Sydney CBD using standard GSM handsets. Seeker Wireless have been developing high-accuracy, low-cost location based services that utilise existing handsets, and GSM networks. General [...]
Sydney, 19 November 2004: Mobile marketing is set for a real boost with the introduction of new location based services, claims the newly appointed General Manager of Seeker Wireless, Andrew Grill. “The possibilities for LBS are endless. Everything from locating the whereabouts of a child, through to rendering assistance for roadside service or ordering a [...]
