Comments on: Picture This: You are Here. http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/picture-this-you-are-here/ Sun, 19 May 2013 23:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LBS: A Dream Continually Deferred - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/picture-this-you-are-here/#comment-194953 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:45:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11667#comment-194953 [...] but the article points to several companies such as Nokia, uLocate’s Where application and SkyHook Wireless that are attempting to bridge that gap by offering a platform that will sit between carriers and [...]

]]> By: Skyhook Developers Blog » Blog Archive » Skyhook’s SDK in Neat New Apps http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/picture-this-you-are-here/#comment-194952 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:08:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11667#comment-194952 [...] WPS along with GPS for photo geo-tagging. After the Skyhook SDK integration, Locr got coverage from GigaOM, Mass High Tech, and other leading industry [...]

]]> By: Shai Berger http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/picture-this-you-are-here/#comment-194951 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:32:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11667#comment-194951 A company called Navizon also has a product that does geolocation via WiFi-triangulation. You can download their software for free. Neat twist: users whose phones have both wifi and gps contribute to the central database of wifi locations as they walk around.

Navizon also had a version of their software working on iPhone last year, but then it got “disabled” when Apple released a firmware update. (Which happened about the same time Apple partnered up with Skyhook… hmmm.) More here: http://www.shaiberger.com/?p=55

]]> By: Shah Ullah http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/picture-this-you-are-here/#comment-194950 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:22:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11667#comment-194950 I’ve been following Skyhook for a while, this is a very promising concept.

]]> By: Abhi http://gigaom.com/2008/02/29/picture-this-you-are-here/#comment-194949 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:20:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11667#comment-194949 There is surely a long way to go before LBS is worth considering.

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