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BBC Springwatch Survey Uses Location and SMS
02.01.06 | Permalink | Comments OffThe BBC, that delta where creativity meets technology, have launched their Springwatch campaign, utilising sms and geolocation data.
Springwatch is designed to monitor the progress of Spring
throughout the UK. So they ask people to look out for six classic indicators, ranging from bees to Hawthorn blossom to Frogspawn. When you see one, you sms the relevant [...] -
Analysis, Location Based Services, Marketing, Mobile Society
Coming to a Pocket Near You; Advertising to Mobiles Threatens to Annoy Billions
01.16.06 | Permalink | 8 CommentsAs anyone reading Russell, Carlo or any of my writing already knows, none of us feels that unsolicited messages of any sort are appropriate EVER. Unless you are telling me something that is going to save my life, prevent dismemberment or keep me from getting arrested, please keep your message to yourself! In [...]
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Location Based Services
Can You Sense Steve Jobs?
12.08.05 | Permalink | 7 Comments6th Sense is a San Francisco based company running a Beta MoSoSo application and I’ve been following them for some time.
You download the free application to your phone, which kind of turns you into a web page discoverable by Bluetooth for others to see and find out what you want to tell them. This [...] -
Location Based Services
Worst Technology for Girls
11.28.05 | Permalink | Comments OffNicolas at Pasta & Vinegar has a great posting, about a paper written by Wendy March (Intel Research) and Constance Fleuriot (Bristol University). Their research has been looking at privacy issues raised by new technologies and the reaction of some of the kids who might be on the “receiving end”.
They explored the concept by inviting [...] -
Location Based Services
PlaceSite WiFiSoSo
11.15.05 | Permalink | Comments OffMany successful commercial projects spin out of academia (Google and Netscape spring to mind, but there’s loads more), so it’s interesting to look at what’s happening there, from time to time.
I read on Cheese Bikini about a new service starting at Berkeley called PlaceSite in the next few weeks. It’s a WiFiSoSo (my acronym, I’m [...] -
Location Based Services
New York’s SociaLight
11.14.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAnyone who reads this blog regularly will know that one of the Location Based Services concepts I find both fascinating and indicative of the way of the future is what I’ve called Digital Graffiti*. In other words, you access digital information when moving about the physical world, with your mobile phone. The availability of this [...]
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Location Based Services
Intel’s New Location Based Technology Needs Useful Applications
One of the big problems with technology is the prevalent attitude that just because something can be done, people will find it useful. It’s best seen in engineering-led cultures where there’s a feeling that “all that marketing and usability stuff can be worked out later…man, isn’t this damn cool?” In other words, marketing and usiblity [...]
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Location Based Services
BT Launches a Whole Range of Terribly Boring LBS Services
10.14.05 | Permalink | 5 CommentsWhat is it with Location Based Services? Knowing the pretty exact whereabouts of a person (or at least their phone) seems a pretty exciting concept, but no one seems to be able to actually translate this information into something that sounds even vaguely interesting to the user - or works from a conceptual point of [...]
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Location Based Services
Location Based Dating Comes to Town
09.28.05 | Permalink | 4 CommentsKorea’s leading operator, SK Telecom, has launched what it claims to be the world’s first location based dating service, based on an operator’s LBS system. It’s powered by WaveMarket, for the LBS element and Psynet, who provided the dating platform.
There have been plenty of forays before into MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software) based on Bluetooth, ranging [...] -
Location Based Services
PlaceOpedia - Location Based Information
09.26.05 | Permalink | Comments OffPlaceOpedia (spotted by Carlo at The Guardian) is a way of linking Location to Wikipedia, the open source encyclopedia.
It’s interesting as it combines a number of different trends (I nearly used the meme word there).
- It’s a low-cost mashup of two different, websites/services - Wikipedia and Google Maps.
- Like Wikipedia, content is generated collaboratively [...]
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