Comments on: Why Location Awareness Will Make the Web More Useful

By: Mobile Location Is Charting a Quick Path to Growth

Mobile Location Is Charting a Quick Path to Growth — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:24:48 +0000

[...] and social-networking apps are more relevant when mapped to a person’s current location. But location can do more than simply drive people to places where they can shop, eat or meet friends. Soon, all mobile [...]

By: Data Rich Internet Needs Context, New Modes of Consumption & Serendipity

Data Rich Internet Needs Context, New Modes of Consumption & Serendipity — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:01:17 +0000

[...] be able to help machines filter through data in ways that are more relevant for us. (Related post: Why Location awareness will make the web more useful.) Left to Right: Dave Winer (Scripting News), Bret Taylor (Facebook), Joe Smarr (Plaxo) & David [...]

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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:18:32 +0000

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By: Yahoo! annonce GeoPlanet Data et Placemaker lors de Where 2.0 (#where20, @Yahoogeo) « LocalLab : Foire aux Infos

Tue, 26 May 2009 18:26:46 +0000

[...] Technologies (nouveau portail) étaient présent à la conférence Where 2.0. À mon avis et l’avis de plusieurs, ils ont « volé le show » cette année, lorsque l’on compare les autres annonces. [...]

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By: Marc Puig

Marc Puig — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:38:05 +0000

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Marc

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:10:01 +0000

Careful! The internet (web) is a tremendous equalizer. Regardless of your background, social-economic status, color, profession, etc, everybody has access to basically the same types and number of resources. Location has the potential to change this dramatically. Location-based rules (redlining) has been used in the past at the expense of the poor. Is that what we really want for the internet? Even though advertisers may lust for it, is it really in the public interest?

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:47:24 +0000

I have said it before, and I will say it again. The killer app, locatively speaking is marrying status updating with location, as this opens the door to all sorts of context-aware services, like: local friend finder/lookup and hookup; event-aligned social services; real-time hyper local news; hyper local advertising.

For more fodder on the topic, here is a blog post that I wrote called:

“Right Here Now” services: weaving a real-time web around status
http://bit.ly/i40h

Check it out, if interested.

Mark

By: James Brickle

James Brickle — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:33:36 +0000

http://gigaom.com/2009/05/20/why-location-awareness-will-make-the-web-more-useful/?replytocom=944788#respond

Thanks

By: James Brickle

James Brickle — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:39:51 +0000

Promoting Yahoo and denying me the ability to share my geo tracking platform information that can benefit every business in US is fair ,Why?

By: Location-Based Services Don’t Work Well Without GPS- May Start Dying in 2010

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:25:46 +0000

[...] growth of location-based services (LBS) is not surprising given how much potential they provide to the end-user. Having a phone or [...]

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:33:43 +0000

there’s a demo of Placemaker here, written by Yahoo staffer Chris Heilmann: http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/index.php Input any URL and it will return any places referenced. I really dig the work Yahoo is doing in geolocation right now.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:33:26 +0000

Unless they can not keep where you are straight:

Facebook moves Cardiff to England
Facebook has put the Welsh capital in England

While you may be sure Cardiff is the capital of Wales, Facebook users in the city were baffled after the social networking website put it in England.

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8052252.stm

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bluelectric.org - Hier bin ich — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:28:36 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:53:51 +0000

I can see how that would be useful in some respects for local information–but big brother closes on in even tighter I fear. But it’s going to happen anyway–the ave person is on camera for a large part of the day anyway. We might as well get some hyper-relevant content and have some fun with it.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:15:58 +0000

Try placemaker online at
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