Twitter disrupts GPS systems of Olympic cyclers
Social media prevented broadcasters from getting accurate data about the precise location of Olympic bicycle competitors.
Mobile Devices Privacy and GPS
We all love our smart devices that latch onto anything so we can surf the internet, do e-mail, and basically roam at will with our handy mobile devices. A bonus of this is the idea that we can also share our GPS coordinates with people through games like Foursquare and other programs that keep track [...]
Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude
Recently I’ve been experimenting with Google Latitude: I wanted to see if I could use it to replace the “family locator” function that most mobile carriers offer at a premium price. This would require that your child or elderly parent or whoever’s whereabouts you care about carries the phone in their pocket with the display [...]
Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization
Bill Gurly wrote up a great piece on Google’s disruption in the navigation market. It is a great read to understand the impact Google’s new navigation ‘feature’ will have in that market. That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model. This [...]
Webstock – Tom Coates – Incrementing Your Life
Tom Coates is a product designer who has worked for UpMyStreet and the BBC and now works for Yahoo. He’s currently working on fire eagle. a location capturing, managing and sharing service. Fire eagle has two initiatives – giving people tools to use, and giving people the control over the information that those tools develops. [...]
