Podcast: A Changing LBS Ecosystem, An Executive One-on-One Interview with Kanwar Chadha, CSR plc

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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Podcast: The Anatomy of a Startup: Deeda.com-Aggregating and Geospatially Enabling Social Nets

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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Podcast: Location and its Relevance to Mapping and Social Networks

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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Podcast: 2007 Year in Review

It’s time to look back on the year with Directions Media’s editors Joe Francica, Adena Schutzberg and Nora Parker. The industry watchers pick out a few themes and explore what they mean today and look a bit into the crystal ball. Among the topics: the value ($$$) of geo, the new geodata, “neogeography,” convergence, the quick-deciding user and the GPS-enabled ski jacket. The podcast is 27 minutes long and was recorded on Dec 17, 2007.

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