OSLO: Open Location Sharing
Open Sharing of Location-based Objects (OSLO) is an initiative to share location information across social and other networks. It was announced late last year. Heard of it? Me either. It does have 10 members: Aka-Aki, Belysio, Buddycloud, Locle, Moximity, Nulaz, Rummble, Skout, Tooio and WAYN. Heard of any of them? I’ve heard of two or three. The group spoke to Google, Yahoo and Vodafone last week at the Mobile World Congress, with positive response, but no action—yet.
It sounds like OSLO in addition to trying to manage privacy is looking for a standard for location data sharing. I think OGC has done a lot of that legwork with it Open Location Services.
One current challenge? OSLO has no website, just a Google Group.
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/24 at 06:00 AM |
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