Over the last few months in the UK, Google has been running what I believe is an excellent campaign to educate users on the finer points of web security, and how websites use your data – and what you can do to control this access. Google have the money and the reach to pull this [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 14, 2011
in social media
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Tagged citizen advice bureau, good to know, google ad campaign, google cookies, google data, google education, google good to know campaign, google newspaper ads, google security, google.google uk, location, online safety, staying safe online, website location, your data on google
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Hot in the heels of my Foursquare Fatigue post, the HISTORY channel in the UK has launched an initiative with Foursquare to help people uncover 600 historic sites in London. I attended the launch this morning at the tower of London (and in doing so picked up the HISTORY ♥ London badge). Tom Davidson, who [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 17, 2011
in foursquare, location based offers
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Tagged AETN, facebook, Facebook deals, Facebook places, foursquare, HISTORY, History 4sq, history foursquare, histoy channel, lbs, location, Location Based Offers, Tom Davidson
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Following on from my recent post on “Foursquare fatigue”, and the recent launch of Facebook deals in the the UK, I thought it would be a good time to look at these initiatives, from both the consumer angle as well as the retailer. Anecdotal discussions with a number of retailers as well as consumers point [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 13, 2011
in location based offers, location based services
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Tagged AdMarvel, Alistair Goodman, facebook, Facebook deals, Facebook places, foursquare, gps, groupon, LBO, lbs, location, Location Based Offers, location bs, m&s, marks & sparks, marks and spencer, mobile coupons, o2, O2 media, O2 more, placecast, Sean Gregory, social media week, starbucks, starbucks lbs, starbucks location
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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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Today Vodafone announced their new Vodafone 360 initiative #vf360 to raise the stakes in the mobile social networking and app store battle between operators. Designed as a major refresh of their Vodafone Live! initiative, Vodafone 360 aims to go beyond a simple web portal and instead link Vodafone customers with their favourite mobile applications and [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 24, 2009
in social media, vodafone
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Tagged 118 118, 118118, ESPN soccernet, facebook, friends, KGB, lbs, location, maps, photos, social media, social networking, Timeout, Timeout film, Tube Exists, twitter, vf360, vodafone, vodafone 360, vodafone facebook, Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes, Vodafone shop, vodafone social media, vodafone social networking, vodafone twitter
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On Saturday 4th July, I visited the Wimbledon Championships as a guest of IBM, in relation to a book I am writing on the business use of twitter (more on this in an upcoming post). IBM, in conjunction with their advertising Agency Ogilvy has served up three brilliant applications for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. You [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 5, 2009
in mobile, twitter
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Tagged @centre_court, AELTC, Alan Flack, All English Lawn Tennis CLub, android, app store, AR, Augmented Reality, Brendon Riley, compass phone, google g1, gps, IBM, IBM Seer, IBM UK, iphone, Layar, lbs, location, Mobilizy, ogilvy, Ogilvy UK, Pat Cash, smarter Wimbledon, tennis, The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, The Championships, twitter, wikitude, Wimbledon, Wimbledon iPhone app
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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
in location
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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 have been following what the team at PMN have been doing for a few years now with their annual mobile user experience conference called MEX. The MEX 2009 event will be held from 19-20th May in London – full details are on the MEX website. The event founder, Marek Pawlowski is apparently a fan [...]
Today Google has finally announced that their street view service has launched in the UK. Image credit: screenshot from Google maps As reported on the Brand Republic website: LONDON – Google has launched its Street View service in the UK which offers ground level pictures of streets in 25 cities including London, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 19, 2009
in google
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Tagged google, google street view, google streetview, lbs, location, maps, street level photography, street view, street view uk, stret view UK
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This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at the all about iPhone blog. This week’s posts cover everything from location, platforms, standards, Mobile 2.0, Mobile World Congress, and how mobile is bigger than TV and the internet. Our post on Google Latitude has also been included in this week’s carnival. Head over to the all about iPhone blog for [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 9, 2009
in carnival
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Tagged all about iphone, allaboutiphone, carnival, carnival 160, carnival of the mobilists, Google latitude, lbs, location, mobile advertising, thought leadership.mobile broadband blog
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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
in location
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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
in location
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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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One of the things I really like about the wordpress theme by Futurosity that I use on the site is the front page post monitor that shows which days of the month I have blogged. The downside though is that if I don’t post very often in a given month it is pretty obvious! Well [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 26, 2008
in conference
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Tagged conference, Estonia, FOM, future of mobile, google, IIR, innovation, location, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile content
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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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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, I was among the presenters invited to speak at the British Computer Society’s evening on Mobile Location Based Services in London. The event was organised by the British Computer Society, North London Branch, in association with the BCS Geospatial Specialist Group. I was joined by Justin Davies from NinetyTen, and Gary [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 25, 2008
in conference
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Tagged bcs, british computer society, buddyping, geoblog, google, lbs, location, maps, vodafone receiver article, yahoo, zone detection
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As reported in New Media Age recently, the team at Yell.com mobile have devised an interesting way to stimulate downloads of their mobile maps application. Back in July, we reported on the updated Yell mobile mapping application. Since then I have tried to get it working on my Nokia E71 (latest Symbian 60 3rd Edition FP1 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 22, 2008
in advertising
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Tagged akqa, download, gmm, google mobile maps, location, mobile campaign, moble agency challenge, moile application, navigation, phd, yell mobile
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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
in location
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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
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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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
in location
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Tagged cell-ID, google, gps, location, maps, mashup, mobile, mobile advertising, my location, Nokia, zagme
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I’m an Engineer from way back, so for me the concept of impedance refers to “the effective resistance to an alternating electric current arising from the combined effect of ohmic resistance and reactance“. Translated – it means things and people getting in the way. As some of you know, I present at conferences and speak [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 17, 2008
in opinion
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Tagged facebook, impedance, jonathan macdonald, location, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile impedance effect, mobile industry, mobile monday, vodafone
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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 [...]
I met Professor Jonathan Raper at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference in Amsterdam recently and he has asked me to be part of his upcoming masterclass in mobile search at the City University London. More information is below and also on Jonathan’s Blog. Perhaps I will see you there? This one day Masterclass on Tuesday 22nd [...]
It’s been over a year since Mobile Monday visited the subject of Location and now is a great time to revisit with a raft of alternate approaches to LBS. This month’s event is kindly sponsored by Skyhook Wireless and will be held on Monday the 14th of July at the usual venue of the CBI Conference [...]
Vodafone New Zealand Media release: 30 June 2008 With new local zone from Vodafone, your Vodafone mobile does two jobs, working as both your mobile and your landline. Once you’ve set up your zone, your mobile becomes your landline when you enter your local zone, and when you leave it becomes your mobile again. For the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 30, 2008
in PR
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Tagged fixed mobile substitution, fms, home phone, home zone, homezone, lbs, local calling, local zone, location, nz, seeker wireless, SIM, vodafone, vodafone new zealand
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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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…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
in location
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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
in location
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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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