http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/ Sat, 25 May 2013 06:11:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-564607 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:52:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-564607 [...] initially caught my attention because it complements some of my own research on the importance of locality in understanding Internet use, pervasive computing and ubiquitous technologies (including [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163518 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:48:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163518 [...] Even last year’s debutante, Foursquare, took a whole year to sign up 500,000 users, including myself. Impressive, but not Facebook impressive! Its rival is Gowalla, a liberally funded startup that recently crossed the 100,000 subscriber mark (and released a much-improved and a fantastic upgrade). Others such as Pelago/Whrrl are literally spraying Austin to get the attention of SXSW visitors. Add to this dozens of unknown and/or little known services and you have the “geowars.” [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163517 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:43:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163517 [...] so WoWPals can keep each other updated via Tweets.) Moreover, it adds World of Warcraft to the growing list of services and applications with location-based [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163516 Sat, 02 May 2009 19:35:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163516 [...] mobile services being launched in Austin, Texas, SXSW Festival this year in his post, “SXSW, Location Awareness Is The New Black.” I am not surprised.  The Mobile Meet Social, Tech Meetup in New York City in February was abuzz [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163515 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:01:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163515 [...] year, there were only a few dozen apps that incorporated location-based data. This year that number has grown to 2,000 apps. Next year there will be five times as many apps that utilize location-based [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163514 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:04:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163514 [...] This company launched at SXSW earlier this month along with three other LBS startups. Founder Dennis Crowley, the guy behind Dodgeball, and the narcissistic appeal of being able to [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163513 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:37:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163513 With the explosion of location aware smart phones, location aware apps were the next logical step. I think that’s partly because they do something that Google doesn’t: give you local search results. For example, when I search Google for “Movies” I get every movie ever made, anywhere. But when i fire up Flixster on my iPhone it gives me the movies closest to me. And I love how I can enter a generic term like “grocery store” in my iPhone’s map feature and it will find me the nearest ones. Another neat application is, instead of just pushing out info like these apps, you could use the GPS feature to allow people to upload info and aggregate it based on geography. Wayne MacPhail of rabble.ca told me about this one and uses the example of a hypothetical app called Plowed where people look out their window in the winter and see if their street is plowed. They then fire up the app and enter Yes or No to the question, “Is your street plowed?” All the data gets uploaded to an interactive map showing where the plows have been.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163512 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:31:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163512 [...] Location awareness is in. A day or so before my panel, this post about 4 new or updated location aware mobile apps dropped. Pepsi (a client) built their Zeitgeist [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163511 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:15:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163511 [...] Posted 6 days ago on sxsw-2009 « WordPress.com Tag Feed [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/03/13/at-sxsw-location-awareness-is-the-new-black/#comment-163510 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:00:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=42250#comment-163510 [...] cut. Numbers like that help explain the burst of iPhone game/entertainment news here at SXSW 2009, from location-aware fun apps to the Facebook Connect function linking iPhone apps to the social network. But there are also [...]

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