1 day ago by David Cohen

NPR conducted an experiment using the ability to customize Facebook posts by location with its Seattle affiliate, KPLU, and the experiment was a rousing success. The public broadcaster said it used Facebook’s geolocation capabilities to post one story from KPLU on its Facebook page each day, visible ...

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2 days ago by yoga

The services, which exploit the ability of communication networks to pinpoint the location of smartphones, have become an important marketing tool for small businesses. View full post on http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Incoming search terms ...

Small Business and Medium - smallbusinessandmedium.com · 1 reference

3 days ago by joconner

Presenting a user interface in the customer's language should be a high priority from your product management team. If not, they're not doing their job in my opinion. This article describes some of the language signals you can use to determine the correct language choice for your web application's u ...

J. O'Conner - joconner.com · 2 references

5 days ago by Mike Nelson Pedde

Hi Folks: Welcome to our first blog post about Lightroom 4! (LR 4 Beta at this point). A number of tutorials and videos are already available about the new features of LR 4; you can find several of them on our ‘ Lightroom Links‘ page. One of the new features in Lightroom 4 is the ‘Map’ module, and i ...

M&M's Musings - wolfnowl.com · Rank: 154,171 · 2 references

5 days ago by JD Lasica

A mobile marketplace for getting stuff done from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Start-up offers location-aware marketplace for getting stuff done One of my favorite new iPhone apps and online services is TaskRabbit, a platform that allows people to hire other people to complete tasks in their own towns or neig ...

The Social Schmuck - socialschmuck.com · Rank: 67,428 · 2 references

7 days ago by Glen Farrelly

This week, I had the opportunity to guest lecture for a great class on social networking at the University of Toronto. I spoke about how new technologies were facilitating geosocial networking, that is people connecting and sharing place-based experiences via their mobile device. I've been studying ...

Webslinger - glenfarrelly.blogspot.com · Rank: 156,244 · 9 references

7 days ago by Masamune

La regola d’oro della sicurezza e dell’anonimato è che per quanto tu possa essere bravo ed attento non avrai mai la certezza di essere protetto da tutti i tipi di attacchi e/o di non lasciare tracce delle tue scorribande su internet. Suona quindi come un no-brainer dopo aver preso tutte le protezion ...

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8 days ago by Glen Farrelly

Last year, I published a list of location-based service (LBS) mobile applications and as predictable with any tech crazes there's been a lot of changes - exciting new start-ups and flame-outs. Trying to keep track of these apps is rather futile under such conditions. But this list demonstrates the i ...

Webslinger - glenfarrelly.blogspot.com · Rank: 156,244 · 9 references

8 days ago by dbruns

The Nokia development team shares technical tips on coding interactive map and geolocation services for the Series 40 platform. Using the Nokia web tools development environment, Andrew Knight gives you a quick and informative look at the map-based application possibilities available to you when dev ...

Learn web development today - learnwebdev.com · Rank: 132,269 · 2 references

8 days ago by Derrick Harris

Skin Scan, a startup based in Bucharest, Romania, is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles and get back information on the likelihood that the mole in question is dangerous. However, during a discussion with Skin Scan’s founders at IBM’s SmartCamp competition ...

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