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. [...]
