LBS
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World’s First GLONASS Smartphone
In a world where GPS enabled smartphones are as passe as intermittent wipers on cars and coffee makers with clocks in them, it’s neat to read some exciting new location […]
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general, LBS, Social Networking, space (not spatial)
NASA and Gowalla team up for a nationwide scavenger hunt
For all of you out there who use Gowalla as your mobile location-based social sharing app, you’ll want to check out the new partnership between NASA and Gowalla that includes […]
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AugmentedReality, general, GeographyAwareness, WebMapping
If Google Maps Were Real
Mashable (perhaps one of the cooler sites I visit each day) has a nifty story about an artist who drew Google Maps icons as if they existed in the real […]
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general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking
Urbagrams – Mapping the social city
In order to investigate the idea of a social archipelago, the notion that our cities are “fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows […]
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Facebook Discovers Places Exist
Alright, I admit I stretched a bit for that headline. However, the important bit is that Facebook has now added Places to it’s features. Places allow you to tag where […]
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ArcGIS for iOS available
It seems that ESRI has made its way through the dreaded App Store approval process and ArcGIS for iOS is now available for both iPhone and iPad via the App […]
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Mobile Phones Collecting Location Information About Customers
Assuming you don’t live in a metal box that’s trapped under a heavy rock buried far, far into the Earth’s surface, you should be aware Apple is launching a new phone in […]
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general, LBS, Social Networking
Scott Kurtz can predict the future! And there’s Starbucks discounts
If you read pvponline.com (a great webcomic, by the way), you’ll recall a story line where a character uses a fictional Foursquare like service to become the mayor of a coffee […]
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general, Hardware, LBS, Software
Internet Operating System?
A couple of days ago, Tim O’Reilly published an interesting piece entitled “The State of the Internet Operating System” I’m not going to say a whole lot about it, other […]
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iGGIS
There is another GIS app in the US iTunes store. iGGIS is a an app for the Netherlands that seems to be a GIS without a map, using your location […]
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