This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at Jamie Well’s excellent Mobilestance website. Here you can read the freshest posts from around the mobile world about everything from games, website design, QR codes, how mobile social network meets crowd powered media right through to the case for banning mobiles in schools.Â
Head on over [...]
When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 30, 2008
in social networking
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Tagged fireeagle, geotag, go, google, gps, gypsii, jaiku, locatik, location, locr, Loki, mobile, networking, Nokia, presence, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook, social, wireless, yahoo, zonetag
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I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand.
Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now Public.
I [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2008
in blogs, media, social networking
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Tagged BA, bbc, crowd, flickr, heathrow, journalist, media, mobile, networking, news, nowpublic, powered, reporter, ShoZu, sky, social
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Over at Gigaom, a story about SiRF Technologies laying off workers has started a discussion around “the end of the GPS party”. Read the full article here
Quoting from Gigaom “SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 25, 2008
in location, mobile
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Tagged eagle, fire, google, gps, location, mobile, navigation, networking, pnd, sirf, social, yahoo
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Carnival of the mobilists #116 is ready for reading over at Situational Marketing where you can once again read the best of the mobile blogs from around the globe. If you’re into wireless then you can’t miss the carnival of the mobilists each week.
With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as
m.facebook.com
m.linkedin.com
m.twitter.com
m.youtube.com
m.myspace.com
(ps notice a pattern here – no .mobi extension for these major sites – does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner)
..it got me thinking about the link between the PC version of a [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 23, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, media, mobile, social networking
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Tagged cellID, facebook, gps, lbs, location, Loki, mobile, networking, social, WiFi
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Wikipedia describes a Frenemy as portmanteau of friend and enemy which can refer to either an enemy disguised as a friend or to a partner that is simultaneously a competitor. In an article in today’s Financial times by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson titled “Advertisers welcome prospect of stronger rival to Google“, Sir Martin describes Google as a [...]
A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle. Being a former practitioner in the Location industry, I rushed to the site, only to find I needed an invitation. Luckily David Recordon from sixapart (movable type) was kind enough to send me one. For those of you trying to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged aware, dopplr, eagle, fire, fireeagle, gps, lbs, location, skyhook, sms, WiFi, wireless, yahoo
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Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week.
In another week in mobile where there has been much discussion [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged apple, carnival, carnival of the mobilists, data, developers, ecosystem, iphone, messaging, mobilists, mobility, network, networking, Nokia, sdk, sip, social, statistics, voip, wireless
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This week, the Carnival is hosted by Chetan Sharma over at his AORTA blog Next week it will be hosted here for the first time at blog.andrewgrill.com, so be sure to check back here next week as well.
I noticed a story (with accompanying video) on the BBC Click website titled Rise and rise of the GPS mobile.
Like many stories at the moment about GPS, the author makes a few generalisations.
In the closing paragraphs, the BBC reporter Marc Cieslak notes
“This location based technology does throw up the potential for annoying features however.
If retailers [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 9, 2008
in advertising, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged ads, advertising, advertisment, detection, gps, Local, location, maps, mobile, navigation, Nokia
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