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Google Responds To Smartphone Location Tracking Uproar, Says Android Is Opt-In
Stalk Yourself: Use R to Analyze Your iPhone Location Data
Since data scientists Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden (disclosure: Pete writes for ReadWriteWeb) presented information about how iPhones store a log of your location data in an unencrypted file, there's been a mix of reactions.
I remain skeptical of whether we’re truly entering some sort of post-capitalist “attention economy.”
On attention, myware, and the precience of Headmap
Nielsen: U.S. Smartphone Users Concerned About Privacy and Location Data
The Nielsen Company's latest research , released today, into consumers thoughts on their privacy and their location data seems well timed in light of yesterday's news that iPhones contain a hidden file that chronicles users' movements.
Color CEO: The Tech Justifies the $41 Million
Last night, an app called Color hit the app stores for both iOS and Android. It made a big splash for a number of reasons, not the least of which being its $41 million prelaunch funding. It has all-star founders who have a impressive track records.
Location-Based Social Networks: Delightful, Dangerous or Somewhere in Between?
Are location-based social networks privacy disasters waiting to happen? Or are the supposed "dangers" simply being overhyped by those without a thorough understanding of what these new networks can and cannot do? Today, these questions are the subject of a serious debate among early adopters - the group of people who are first to sign up for and try out the latest technology innovations, testing everything from iPads to mobile apps.
Clear Channel Outdoors today announced a free Android version of its FLYsmart mobile application , built by Geodelic Systems, that combines flight-tracking functions with detailed airport maps and user location.
Location: It’s Just a Feature: Tech News and Analysis «
Location Services Have Not Caught On, Report Says - NYTimes.com
Noah Berger for The New York Times Checking in at Monique’s Chocolates in Palo Alto, Calif. Technology companies, venture capitalists and retailers have expressed no small amount of enthusiasm for location-based Web services, which allow users to “check into” locations in order to connect with friends or cash in on special offers from businesses. It is not clear whether the people who would actually be checking in share that excitement. The number of people using location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla remains small, and does not appear to be growing, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center ‘s Internet & American Life Project. On any given day, 1 percent of adult Americans use a service that allows them to share their location, according to the report.
Jay Adelson, known to some as the recent CEO of Digg but known to others for far more, has taken a position as the new CEO of pre-launched and eagerly-awaited geolocation data platform SimpleGeo , the company announced today. SimpleGeo says it will launch "this Fall" and its goal will be "to build and index all kinds of public and private geospatial data and make access as easy as possible." We reported all the way back in February that the company was indexing more than 1 million locations per hour. That's a whole lot of data describing various places that other applications can tap into. Adelson, the company's new leader, is just 40 years old but has founded some of the most important, if little-known, tech companies in the last 15 years. SimpleGeo founding CEO Matt Galligan, who will become the company's Chief Strategy Officer, put Adelson's background in context thusly:
To Describe to Us the World: Former Digg CEO Joins Location Startup SimpleGeo
Foursquare has an open position for a data scientist.
Foursquare Searching for Data Scientist - A Sign of Things to Come?
Can a game really be the killer app that brings converts and revenue for location-based services or is that a 22-year-old’s pipe dream? Seth Priebatsch, the founder and “Chief Ninja” at SCVNGR said all the check-ins and even the deals and discounts aren’t creating the interactions with places that are meaningful and interesting: the kind of stuff that people will readily share with others and will fuel mass adoption. The badges and points many location services offer are just bolt-on gamification efforts.
SCVNGR Hopes Games Are Location’s Killer App [Video]: Tech News and Analysis «
With a shade over five million members, Foursquare is tiny compared to say, emerging location giants Google or Facebook. But when it comes to location-based services, Dennis Crowley , co-founder of the New York-based start-up, is viewed as one of the few people who can look into the future and see the redefinition of Internet and web services based on the location-beacon inside our mobile devices. Crowley has been experimenting with local and location for nearly a decade, first at now-forgotten city guides maker Vindigo, then at Dodgeball, a hot social-networking-meets-location startup that he sold to Google.