UPDATE: March 6 2009 – since finishing this article last night, my twitter theory about breaking news and the power of twitter search has been once again proven correct. At 09:57 GMT this morning, one of my Melbourne twitter friends @emilyfreeman tweeted “did the earth just move? Seriously??”.
This article was also published by Digital-Media magazine in Australia [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 6, 2009
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Tagged @andrewgrill, ad age, breaking news, dabr, eric schmidt, eureka moment, google, local search, local social search, melbourne earthquake, mobile advertising, mobile social, mobile social networking, mobile social search, twitter, twitter news, twitter search
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I met Professor Jonathan Raper at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference in Amsterdam recently and he has asked me to be part of his upcoming masterclass in mobile search at the City University London.Â
More information is below and also on Jonathan’s Blog. Perhaps I will see you there?
This one day Masterclass on Tuesday 22nd July will [...]
Microsoft quietly launched a new feature on the mobile version of their live website at http://m.live.comhere in the UK. As you can see from the screenshots below, there is now a “find me” button.
Users in the UK who access m.live.com from their native WAP browser (would not work on Opera Mobile or Opera Mini) are automatically [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 31, 2008
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Tagged cell-ID, google, live, live.com, local search, location, location search, microsoft live, my location, search
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Following on from my earlier post on the new My Location feature on Google Mobile Maps, and after having used the application for the last month, I thought I’d provide an update on usability in a range of real world situations.
While I have been testing it everywhere I have travelled in December (London, Bristol, Athens, [...]
