Directions Magazine’s editor in chief, Joe Francica, speaks to Kanwar Chadha, a pioneer in location-based services as one who founded SiRF Technologies, a GPS chipset manufacturer which merged with CSR plc in February 2009. Mr. Chadha, now the chief marketing officer of CSR, has appeared as a keynoter at Directions Media’s Location Intelligence conference. Francica spoke with him to get his take on how the LBS landscape has changed for social networking as well as anticipated new developments in new electronics going into smaller and smaller form factors. They also discuss the Location and Beyond Executive Summit upcoming October 6th at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, as well as a new endeavor that Directions will be supporting called PointThinkTank, a place for discussing new ideas and concepts in the LBS ecosystem.
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by Joe Francica on 09/08 at 04:37 AM |
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Last week, CTIA, the Wireless Association, held their spring conference and issued an updated statement of Best Practices and Guidelines for Location Based Services. Why? According to CTIA, "the guidelines were revised due to the dynamic and constantly innovative nature of the wireless ecosystem and the latest developments in Location-Based Services." Certainly the understatement of the year. In this podcast, we’ll discuss the details and whether they will actually work in practice.
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by Joe Francica on 03/30 at 05:10 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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This podcast features Atif Khan, Founder and CEO of Deeda.com. Khan speaks extensively on setbacks he has faced and successes he has celebrated in the process of starting his company Deeda.com. Deeda is a social networking aggregation tool. Basically, once your friends approve, Deeda will compile their Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other profiles onto one convenient portal. You can see when and what they are doing or saying without flipping between sites. The geospatial advantage to Deeda - based on their postings to social network sites, you can track your friends on a map. Pretend “Bob” lives in Detroit but is at a conference in Miami. Deeda will show Bob’s movement across the country and beyond. What’s better than that, pretend Bob has a birthday while he’s in Miami and you want to send him a little something. You can buy him a Starbucks coffee card through Deeda and he can redeem it in Miami, back in Detroit or wherever he chooses – the card travels with him. Khan’s creativity and drive while building his company and during this presentation is infectious and well worth your time. [Produced by: Clay Burton Productions and Endpoint Environmental LLC, Producers of the Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group in conjunction with Directions Media.]
The presentation was recorded at Google headquarters on December 16, 2008, and lasts for approximately 37 minutes.
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by Joe Francica on 02/03 at 06:29 AM |
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This podcast features Chris Butler, Independent LBS Evangelist. Butler discusses "Location, Awareness" and the context in which it applies to mapping and social networks. It is a high level, compelling, but inherently intuitive lecture on how context – who, when, where, why, what, and how – is valuable to your application, product or service. We usually try to answer one, maybe two of this variables when designing our next hot widget; Butler challenges us to include not one or two but all variables. However he gives us a few rules to conceptualize and effectively implement the process. For all persons interested in taking their application to the next level, this is an excellent presentation.
[Produced by: Clay Burton Productions and Endpoint Environmental LLC, Producers of the Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group in conjunction with Directions Media. The presentation was recorded at Google headquarters on November 18, 2008, and lasts for approximately 18 minutes.]
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by Joe Francica on 01/19 at 06:01 AM |
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