geolocation
Facebook Places: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Submitted by siteadmin on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 02:40Facebook Places has been out and about for the past few weeks now. Many of us have used it (or at least tried out out and turned it off), and there are definitely some good things, some bad things, and some downright ugly things about it.
Foursquare and the Tragedy of the GPS
Submitted by agardina on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 07:56This post was supposed to be a lot of things. It was supposed to be the last post in my mobile series - how business & organizations can use geolocation apps. Then, it was supposed to be a rant about Foursquare's new GPS integration and how much I hate it.
Geolocation Applications: The Major Players
Submitted by agardina on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 03:44In less than 18 months, over three billion applications have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store. Thousands, if not millions, of these have been geolocation apps - applications that use an iPhone or other smartphone's GPS. By locating you and your phone, geolocation apps give you the opportunity to "check-in", or opt in and share your location with your social networks.
