April 2010
8 posts
gowalla
giving away icons? a free prize inside? inspiring unexpected journeys…@jw on twitter…
facebook mobile guy - dave fetterman
400M users? I hate facebook
100M mobile users
navteq
360 degree lidar imagery for in car navigation…navteq true…
arcgis.com
very cool app from esri..can’t wait to check it out…
yelp
10m reviews, 1m reviews everything 2.5 months
yelp uses mechanical turk
augmented reality is the sat imagery of 2005
yelp enabling checkin, quicktips…
yelp sales force, local business sign up
60 percent growth in content on yelp
SkyHook
Ted Morgan
200m wifi acess points, 1.9 cell towers
70% population coverage in us, europe, expanding in asia
300m location requests daily, (a shit load) going for 1b, 11 patents
90m devices on the network
location app growth jun-08 minimal to over 8000, up from 3000 last year
most on the app store
Fake Mayor and iPoo
integrate the data, new york and paris are busiest, but austin was the...
fascinating map by john wesley powell
cool data point from usgs on lining state boundaries…
digital globe
unprocessed accuracy of unprocessed gps link…accuracy issues from satellite imagery…get it down to 1.5 meters…digitalgloble 1.5 meter bathymetry maps to 20 meters…
C3 is amazing stuff
very nice data on stockholm, london, vegas and sf…really nice…they claim its automatic, but skeptical…regardless, its beautiful stuff…see http://www.c3technologies.com/
March 2010
7 posts
big ideas at where
hanke- most of the world has very little on it on the web…helping fill that out is a big opportunity…dashboards for business owners…
user gen content for yelp is jumping…ultimately, there will be a user gen streetview…
social animal
very cool data set using hd video…
foursquare
the ‘check in space’
get tired of it if you have less than 5 people…trying to build game mechanics…checking as 1 player experience…pimping nike +…sounding much more fresh…22 million check ins a foursquare…12 million api uses…uses are accelerating beyond what they thought…
nokia
84 million devices in 84 million in jan 10…free nav coming…real world about places you go and people you meet…interesting map app capability…
twitter
associate context with tweets, consume real-time information based on context…tagging tweets with real places…polygon for tweets in a park in san francisco…crazy…
Tim O'Reilly talking at Where
not enough people thinking big about where technology is going…in location, is there an alliance with the big players or is there another one…facebook is sending data all over the place and their monetize goals may override users…google alternative energy announcements coming soon…michael arrington from techcrunch…facebook security is a major...
November 2009
2 posts
LBSN Trends
great post by the wherebusiness folks on LBSN…
http://bit.ly/1bv4bO
New York, New York
Eagerly waiting for the Yanks 27th World Series parade tomorrow. Wish I could be there. But really, these days we should be able to get right up close to an event like that, right?
Between twitter, facebook, regular media outlets, flickr, whrrl, geo-ref’d iphone shots, we should be able to get an all angles view of what is going on there. The question is, is there an app for that?
And...
October 2009
3 posts
Raindrops and Waves
So Mozilla’s Raindrop (see http://bit.ly/16tXod) and the Google’s Wave are supposed to make life easier for communicating, working, and otherwise managing lots of information. Mozilla says “I know some messages are more important than others, why shouldn’t my application too?”
That’s great, I suppose. I’m not sure what will come of these, hopefully they...
A new way to shop
How easy would it be for a grocery store to drop a sensor on their shopping carts that would let them track shoppers through the store, sync with purchases as they moved through check out and then run the analytics to compare where people browse/shop with what they actually buy. Shopping analytics is a billion dollar business, this would just be some sensors, some SaaS and a couple readers at the...
Google's own map data?
The Google is using its own map data now. More to come.
http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/Google-Maps-to-use-proprietary-data-in-the-US_a1786.html
September 2009
1 post
Mossberg covers IPhone GPS Nav Apps
Nothing over the top exciting here, just that navigation is getting much less expensive. It’s been a multi-billion dollar business and slowly that money will decline because of new tools built on devices like the iphone.
These types of services start making open maps like yahoo and osm more viable in the long run.
Check out Mossberg’s review here: http://bit.ly/ST1KZ
August 2009
4 posts
Ted Kennedy Procession
Interesting mashup by the Boston Globe tracking the Ted Kennedy procession from Hyannis to Boston. Could certainly benefit from a few geo-ref’d photos/videos. Also, an easy trace method would be helpful here as well. But, all in all, a nice use of location by the Globe. Love or hate Teddy, he served his country as a patriot.
...
Location and the Semantic Web
What we do when we are in certain places will reveal certain things about what we want when we are looking for things. Some of this is obvious—we will be looking for different things when we are in different places. However, knowing what you searched for and what others searched for in a specific location (or woeid), will make search smarter. Beyond that, there are some issues that...
Palm Pre GPS Tracking
The LA Times is reporting that Palm is tracking gps location without specific opt-in by users. I can appreciate Palm’s desire to know what people are doing with their device. I can also only begin to understand the data mining that could be done with the data. However, this gets to the heart of deep privacy issues around location.
I have to wonder if something like fire eagle could mask...
Washington Post is getting where
Just saw that the Washington Post is understanding the power of mobile. They’ve relaunched their mobile site and will be adding locational services like restaurant reservations. I love mobile for newspapers and good ones can take their brand into LBS to create the scale around the services.
See the story from thewherebusiness
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July 2009
7 posts
Google listening and processing?
So I’m a big google video chat fan, but was a bit taken aback today by an on screen ad. After discussing fax machines (randomly) an ad popped up on the sidebar for fax machines? Coincidence, or is google already processing voice?
The search for Ghengis Khan
Very interesting post from wired on using sat imagery, volunteer archaelogists and other crowds to solve a long time mystery.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/genghis-khan/
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G Maps Favorite Places
So the lat-long folks have built ‘favorite places’ (http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-collection-of-favorite.html) of famous people. Clever app. I suppose once this enters the realm of people whose favorite place is x also like place y, it will be more useful than finding out where famous people like to go. I guess most of these folks, it turns out, really like...
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Wired Gadget Lab Reviews G Latitude for iPhone →
Orange Soda launches map engine optimization--long... →
OSM in SLC
Caught OpenStreetMap’s visit to SLC, very cool to learn about uses of the product by communities, especially in germany. We did a quick gps trace around library square and loaded it up. I look forward to adding more via OSM’s Potlatch.
MiniMap & Firefox 3.5
Pretty excited to see the minimap add on for 3.5. It lets you send addresses directly to a mapping application. I’m very glad to see you have the option of sending it to OpenStreetMap as well.
June 2009
7 posts
WatchJeff Holden from Whrrl talks about footstreams as the new clickstreams…
Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without... →
Story on Adrian Holovaty and the growth and development of hyperlocal content sites.
The Location-centered lifestyle on Wired →
“In every industrial revolution, some factor of production is drastically reduced...”
– Gilder, via The Long Tail
Ubiquitous Geo Context
Steve Coast
scenarios-
alarm clock is tied into where you are, where you are going to work, what traffic is like, when you need to be there
on the fly carpooling, cars negotiating with stop lights to change from red to green. auction for green lights.
computers in cars negotiate a fee to the cops to get out of getting a ticket for $20
use windshield wiper sensors to let others know the...
is local paying?
Panel Members:
Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land), Tyler Bell (Yahoo! Inc.), Michael Halbherr (Nokia), Marc Prioleau (CloudMade), Mark Law (MapQuest)
How are people making money? OpenStreetMap is built from things that people care about most. Immediate relevance is most sticky. Nokia is about having a stronger user experience.
Who owns the consumer mapping experience?
whrrl
footstreams at whrrl, like a clickstream on the web (a la shopping at amazon)
audience science captures a full browser history
focus on ‘place’ rather than lat/long. Look at visitization. Would need pervasive location awareness.
They are really about microsharing (facebook + twitter), telling stories, and introducing similarities
There are two types of searches, spearfishing...
May 2009
18 posts
Long Tail
A long time coming, but just wrapped The Long Tail by Chris Anderson. Lot’s of good stuff and more to come on how media and place will continue to come together.
The latest from Chris Anderson →
“We spend a lot of time making sure we aren’t enabling awkward social...”
– Dennis Crowely, mobile social network site foursquare
“Maps by different people at different times focused on very different things and...”
– Michal Migurski, Stamen Design
indigenous mapping
Rebecca Moore do Google, boa historia do povo paiter surui. Fala a respeito de seus esforcos de reclamar sua terra na regiao amazonia.
Journalism and Place
Dan Gillmor, founder of Dopplr, ‘recovering journalist’.
Place has always been central to journalism. Miami Herald won a pulitzer price using gis data to find fraud in residential construction (A storm leveled only new construction, which lead the Herald to investigate and find bribes to inspectors to waive certain requirements).
Location + time = huge value
In New Orleans, they...
Local Search Fail
Classic story on search engine fail in by Newport Beach PD. I’ll have to get the link to the slides later. However, it highlights the huge problems with local search and getting local information.
Chris Silver Smith has a sweet listing on problems with Street View—crazy images of things gone terribly wrong, right in front of the googlemobile.
Its time we think about the issues in...
Mapquest Local
Surprisingly enjoyed the Mapquest presentation by Mark Law. They have a refreshingly straightforward approach, even if they are owned by AOL. I think they can be a great partner for driving traffic to local content providers. Beyond that, they have have 2/3’s of the map search business (statbrain.com).
Here’s a quick summary:
They have 40M unique visitors per month and are trying to...
yahoo placemaker announcement on cnet →
This looks to be a great tool, will have to scope it out in more detail…