Wednesday, August 26. 2009

BBC Using Google Gears to Deliver Location-based Content

For now the content is weather and spots from it Breathing Places efforts (about natural places) but the effort will grow to provide more options as part of BBC Learning Innovations. A demo under the working title BBC Open Air is a website one can visit from a desktop or mobile device. With Gears installed it will know your location and offer up appropriate content.

- BBC via Paid Content

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Google Crowdsources Traffic: Will that kill waze?

Lots of buzz in the last day or so about Google using data from those using Google Maps Mobile to compile and share traffic data - especially for rural routes. (See for example Ars Technica.) It's been around in some areas for a while.

Several comments I saw said basically, "Waze is dead, Google killed it." Hang on - recall the Waze business plan while it includes sharing traffic data is about developing a base map from its users' travels, then selling that geodata. I don't know if it will work, but it's a very different money making proposition than say...Google's.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, LBS at 08:01 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |