The Google+ social network may be adding features to its mobile app that will allow users to claim deals when they check in at locations, according to a Google support document.
Google confirms its expected to launch next week. Yawn.
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Want to visualize your Google Latitude history in Google Earth? You can - even though by default when you export the data its only for the last day. There's a workaround to change the dates to a range.
Forrester Research's Chairman and CEO George Colony told a room full of Web and social-media enthusiasts Thursday at Le Web that that the current crop of trendy social businesses like the location-based, check-in social network, Foursquare, are “nonsense” and that the “next wave of social” will involve applications that are more efficient, faster, easier to use and have a higher “value-to-time proposition” than the current market players. That's pretty interesting in the context of the Google announcement above!
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/08 at 05:37 AM |
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July saw more than its share of acquisitions in the geospatial domain. Among the players involved were large companies with household names like Nokia and Facebook, and smaller ones only known in tighter circles, including NextStop and Photo Science. Our editors review the deals and offer predictions on their success.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/27 at 01:00 AM |
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This week as the world is abuzz about Apple’s latest device, the iPad, we look at a potential apple area of interest: mapping. There are hints that apple is assembling policies and ingredients for a mapping play, but what else does it need to fully implement its solution? And what would make an Apple incursion into mapping uniquely compelling? And when might it arrive?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/06 at 01:00 AM |
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I attended several of the workshops and came away impressed with the willingness of instructors to take attendees through what was clearly a compressed time format.
I sat in on Mano Mark’s Google Maps API session and came away with a new appreciation of the simplicity of the API.
I attended Paul Ramsey’s OpenGeoStack workshop and diligently loaded PostgreSQL and PostGIS and hacked my way through a short application. Not that I knew what I was doing but it was clearly fun to try.
Next it was on to Aiden Chopra’s workshop on adding “3D to the Geoweb.” This was essentially a “Sketchup for Dummies” overview; I clearly fit the part. Now I’m a Sketchup neophyte. Adding textures to extruded building models is clearly fun but reminds of digitizing 3.0. I’d hate to have that job today.
I had a great conversation with Gary Gale, the director of geo technologies at Yahoo! Gale said that geo is on the right track now at Yahoo!; FireEagle clearly has a future; and upper management is taking strides to put more resources into defining geo as something for mobile location-based advertising at the company. I’ll provide the audio version of the interview shortly.
In the evening, Brady Forrest, the conference chair, hosted Ignite @ Where and this literally felt more like “open mic night at 2nd City.” Andrew Turner bolted on stage to wild applause. Given our enthusiasm for location technology and his experience with various efforts, he asked the very valid question of “How do you affect the single person on the ground.” I was not impressed by the other speakers. Most talks were five minutes of trying to sound funny with little substance. However, Paul Ramsey did have an entertaining way of explaining that mapping errors are compounded as more and more applications are built on top of base maps which they themselves may have been compiled from poor quality data.
See my post on the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge hosted by Jeff Mize and Marc Nadell. These apps that have not yet gone commercial were quite good. The eventual winner was, Cyprus Solutions with its VUE application for fleet asset tracking. The company will be successful when this app launches because of the implications for tracking goods coming in through ports for homeland security.
Patrick Meier of Ushahidi completed the day’s events with a nice overview of his efforts at Crisis Camps for Haitian earthquake relief efforts.
by Joe Francica on 03/31 at 01:46 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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