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At the recent Local Business Summit in Amsterdam I spoke about my work at the BBC on location services and mapping and tried to make the point that, as far as our users/consumers are concerned, the place name is all-powerful when it comes to identifying location. Other means of identifying location (grid references, postcodes, lat/long coordinates) [...] No blogging this morning as I was busy presenting a view of location services at the BBC and then speaking on a panel discussion. Thoroughly enjoyable, and the best panel discussion yet according to @uphamb. Follow #locbiz f you want a rundown of events so far. Now back to sitting, watching, listening and blogging. Joel Grossman from Wavemarket is [...] Some highlights from day one of The Location Business Summit in Amsterdam. Annette Zimmermann from Gartner began the conference with some analysis and survey results on the usage of location services. Unsurprisingly it is expected by 2014 that a third of mobile phones in use will be smartphones – i.e. phones capable of delivering location awareness. Symbian [...] Following my recent post on Will Perrin’s Talk About Local initiative, Jon Bounds has pushed ahead and created a Birmingham Local Blogs Wire by feeding a selection of blogs about Birmingham through Yahoo! Pipes. You can read all about the thinking behind the Birmingham Blog Wire here. Robin Hamman (@cybersoc) and I spent many an hour talking [...] Ever doubted the power of the cake? http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5165508&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 cake orchestra (test) from mook studios on Vimeo. Following protests and complaints over the introduction of Google’s Street View technology in the UK, the UK’s Information Commissioner has today ruled that it should not be stopped. More from BBC News. Another story from BBC News today on the privacy issues surrounding Google’s Street View technology – residents of Broughton, near Milton Keynes, staged a protest and accused Google of invading their privacy and facilitating crime. Twenty five UK cities went live on 19th March with the Netherlands version also going live on the same date, making [...] Isn’t this soooo cool? £17.50 for your 1GB lego stick, and four colours to choose from, green, red, yellow and blue. |
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