In mid-March Twitter rolled out the second part of its geolocation functionality. Now in addition to being available for developers via its API, users could share location information from the twitter.com website. That’s when the world learned that Twitter had tapped geodata company Maponics to provide the “place” information for those tweets. On March 24 Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg spoke to Maponics CEO Darrin Clement about the value of context in locaiton-based services, how Maponics was working with Twitter, the state of geographic basemaps and the potential uses of real-time geodata.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/02 at 01:00 AM |
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Foursquare vs. Gowalla? How about Bing Maps vs. Google Maps? Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media and chairperson of the Where 2.0 Conference shares his views on some of the more popular web-based mapping platforms and social networks that are "location-aware." In this conversation with Editor in Chief Joe Francica, Forrest also discusses the popularity of the conference and its objective of bringing together both the GIS and neogeography crowd.
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by Joe Francica on 03/10 at 05:20 AM |
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Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) former president Learon Dalby about the 2009 NSGIC annual conference and the organization’s advocacy agenda for the coming year. Among the topics explored: authoritative data, social media, the broadband mapping stimulus, NSDI, oversight, and Data for the Nation. This is another in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 12/14 at 01:00 AM |
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Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, interviewed Zipano Technolgies CEO Ziv Baum about the research into consumer behavior regarding sharing personal information that formed the basis of the company, how Zipano’s privacy control “layer” differs from other options on the market, and his vision for how it may be implemented by a big carrier. This is another in a series of interviews with geospatial insiders and outsiders.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 12/07 at 03:39 PM |
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