Geolocation API
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Study of locationa aware Apps
Which Service Will Get You on Your Customers' Map?
I don't know how high school dances work these days, but it used to be that the boys slouched against one wall of the gymnasium and the girls huddled around at the other end.The odds are pretty good that if you’re a big consumer of mobile apps, the private information on your phone has been collected and sent somewhere without your knowledge. That’s the finding of the App Genome Project mammoth study by Lookout , a mobile security company that has scrutinized more than 300,000 apps on both the iPhone and Android mobile phone platforms. San Francisco-based Lookout provides security such as anti-malware for mobile phones.
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The Top 10 Buzziest Blogs in Geolocation This Week
You probably hear about Foursquare all the time, we certainly write about it a lot here on ReadWriteWeb, but did you know that there are many other things going on in the world of location and mapping?I want an app that automatically sends me a link to the Wikipedia entry for any historic building I travel nearby.
Geoloqi Aims to Unlock the Magic of Mobile Location
As Facebook enters into the location market with Facebook Places , the world's largest social network will help to make the edgy concept of checkins and location-sharing a mainstream practice. Facebook is just one company attempting to add location for context; there are countless others going above and beyond checkins to push the space forward. There's also a noticeable uptick in consumer interest around applications and services that feature location for sharing or utility. The geolocation space is the one to watch right now — celebrities are flocking to Foursquare , location is finding a unique purpose in many mobile apps, background location is becoming a commonplace feature on smartphones, geofencing is evolving in purpose and function, and location-based social networks are proving to be the perfect platforms for cause marketing.
5 Important New Trends in Location
What Your Digital Photos Reveal About You
The moment is special: Your kid just learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. So you fire up your iPhone's camera, snap a photograph, upload the image to TwitPic , and share the evidence of your child's triumph via Twitter. When you post the picture, a subset of the 75 million Twitter users will know the exact location of you and your child.
Many big name social networking geolocation apps such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl and the new Facebook Places feature have been scrutinized due to privacy concerns and all the fuss has been justified. When broadcasting location via an application there will always be a high demand for privacy. A free app called face2face has a goal to keep its users location a big secret. When face2face tells a friend your location it only tells them that you're in the area.
Making Geolocation Privacy a Priority With the Social Networking App face2face | Social Media
Banks Using Social Media Sites For Mining Personal Information
Banks and other financial organizations are collecting and archiving information such as status updates that users post on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a recent ABC News article . The ABC article maintains that due to the wealth of user data available on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, banks can now have a very detailed and elaborate view on the personal lives of its clients. Personal finance expert Erica Sandberg thinks that anyone can get information about her financial conditions from Facebook or LinkedIn and can then use this information to may even deny credit to her.
Booyah’s InCrowd, famously announced by founder Keith Lee at the Facebook Places launch event earlier this month, just hit the App store. InCrowd is the first of the inevitably many apps that will be built off the Facebook Places API and the only location-based app that has exclusive access to Facebook search. Touted as part game and part social utility, InCrowd is unique in the LBS space as it goes beyond collecting check-ins and allows users to experience a virtual world corresponding the real world visited in Places.
Meet Booyah’s InCrowd, A Location-Based Second Life
Enterprise-level IP Geolocation Made Available Via API
The ‘Big Data’ service Infochimps now offers IP geolocation from Digital Element. Infochimps is best known for making huge datasets available as bulk downloads and through RESTful APIs.