Location Awareness
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Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate GeoOver the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare, a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball. Some of them will literally pull out their phones as soon as they enter any restaurant, event or even TechCrunch HQ and ...
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Dennis Crowley – Foursquare « Mobile Monday AmsterdamIn a very uplifting style, Dennis Crowley presents his view on how we can make the world just a little bit more fun by adding game elements in our daily activities.
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4mapper Puts Foursquare On The Map4mapper Puts Foursquare On The Map by MG Siegler on November 26, 2009 As one of the hot social-location properties, Foursquare has a wealth of information about where you go. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really offer many good ways to visualize it. In fact, Foursquare only focuses on ...
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Video Interview: Hot Potato Founder Justin Shaffer | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsDHot Potato Is Ready to Eat: Do Twitter, Facebook Users Want Another Real-Time Chatter Service? by Peter Kafka Last month I told you about Hot Potato , one of the buzziest start-ups in the very buzzy “real time” sector. Now you can check out the service yourself . But not really. The ...
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If Kerouac Lived In The Present, OnTheRoad, The Service, May Have Interested HimThere’s a ton of buzz around location right now. Our discussion on it at the RealTime CrunchUp this past Friday easily could have gone on twice as long as it did. There are just so many interesting facets: Business models, privacy, real-life social implications, and so on. Not surprisingly, ...
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Find Movies Playing Nearby With Google Mobile SearchFind Movies Playing Nearby With Google Mobile Search Want to find out what’s playing in theaters near you? Or you just want to check out the latest movie trailers? Google mobile search now has a special section that lets you check out movie listings, with locations, ...
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If the Delivery Guy Drops Your Package, Senseaware Updates You Online | Design & Innovation | Fast CompanySpeed isn't good enough when you're shipping something like transplant supplies for emergency surgery or tissue samples. You also need to be perfectly sure that what you're sending hasn't been compromised for even a second along the way. FedEx has come up with an answer: Senseaware, a drop-in ...
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Augmented Reality Applications - Head To Head Part 2Whereas part 1 of the head to head challenge focused on finding food, part 2 of the augmented reality browser head to head challenge focuses on using the browsers to find more information about your surroundings. The scenario is you are travelling and you see something of interest, can an ...
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Augmented Reality Applications - Head To Head Part 1I thought it was time to do an augmented reality browser head to head and put a few of the current applications through their paces to see which one comes out on top. Today’s test is – Finding places to eat It should be a simple task, you’re out and about and in the mood for a nice Indian ...
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The biggest things last week: Foursquare and SalesforceThe biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce One is a huge company that’s well known inside huge enterprises. The other is a startup with five employees that hardly anyone knows. But they both shifted the world last week in big ways. Note I didn’t put Google’s Chrome OS on this ...
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