Location Awareness: Urban computing and locative media « Emperor's New Architecture. Instead of a dark room with a screen, mouse and keyboard, we are more likely to be online in a café, scrolling down the touch screen of a smart phone. It is typical of a ‘neo-nomad’ to live the ‘Starbucks lifestyle’, relying on mobile technology while relocating around the world (Abbas 2011). Problems of ‘neo-nomadism’ are many, as described in detail by Yasmine Abbas, but they are a group of users who were ‘liberated’ by mobile technology. Exactly this is the point of Net Locality: contrary to the general prejudice about technology’s alienation effect on the physical experience of the world (which is justified by the way we used to connect to the web in the 90s), new technologies are making us aware of locations, and making locations aware of us (Gordon and de Souza e Silva 2011).
Because “games provide a logic for user interaction” (Gordon and de Souza e Silva 2011), they have been widely used to simulate behaviours and situations. The Familiar Stranger (Paulos, e. Place Pages for Google Maps: There are places we remember! Google Maps is a great tool for exploring places — you can pan around the map, zoom in and see nearby places, look around in Street View and search for whatever you want. But what I always wanted to do is be able to get a clear understanding of what a place is all about. Instead of doing the research all over the web, wouldn’t it be great to see all the information about one place in...one place?
Starting today, you can do that on Place Pages for Google Maps. A Place Page is a webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it. By every place, we really mean *every* place — there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities all over the world. You can get to a Place Page by clicking on "more info" in search results, or by clicking "more info" in the mini-bubble. Here are some of my favorite places, and what you can discover about them using Place Pages: Geolocalizzazione dei Risultati Organici nelle SERP di Google. Web 3.0. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Il Web 3.0 è un termine a cui corrispondono significati diversi volti a descrivere l'evoluzione dell'utilizzo del Web e l'interazione fra gli innumerevoli percorsi evolutivi possibili. Questi includono: Storia[modifica | modifica sorgente] Il termine Web 3.0 è apparso per la prima volta agli inizi del 2006 in un articolo di Jeffrey Zeldman critico verso il Web 2.0 e le sue tecnologie associate come AJAX.
Nel maggio 2006, Tim Berners-Lee[1] affermava: Durante il Technet Summit nel novembre 2006, Jerry Yang, fondatore e presidente di Yahoo! , rilasciava la seguente dichiarazione: Allo stesso Technet Summit, Reed Hastings, fondatore e CEO di Netflix, riassumeva in una semplice formula la definizione delle diverse fasi del web: Il termine Web 3.0 è diventata una materia di crescente interesse e dibattito a partire dalla fine del 2006 sino a 2007.
Innovazioni associate con il Web 3.0[modifica | modifica sorgente] Dibattiti sul Web 3.0[modifica | modifica sorgente] Augmented Reality Meets Location-based Social Networking. Location-based social media is a particular fascination of mine lately. I love Foursquare and always have. But one of the more popular types of app for mobile devices these days is Augmented Reality, which is a term for software that uses the mobile device's camera to provide a direct or indirect view of physical, real world environment overlaid with computer-generated elements such as video, sound, or important data such as GPS coordinates. A new app in this field is TagWhat. Part augmented reality-app and part social networking service, it lets people check and view locations along with additional random info like the place's history, the famous people who lived in it, anecdotes about the neighboring establishments, or any other information that can either be trivial, interesting, or extremely useful.
Unlike other augmented reality apps, TagWhat relies on extensive user interaction. Realtà aumentata e network geolocalizzati. Arricchire l’esperienza utente integrando atomi e bit — Better Software. Quante volte ci siamo smarriti in un ospedale cercando un ambulatorio? Quante volte ci sarebbe piaciuto visitare una città potendo scegliere un tema specifico? Per questi problemi sono state fornite nel tempo varie soluzioni, ma che succederebbe se oggetti e luoghi potessero parlare? Fuoriuscito dallo spazio ristretto dello schermo, il web si sta diffondendo in un insieme sempre più ampio di oggetti quotidiani: la compenetrazione tra atomi e bit (augmented reality) permette un'interazione arricchita con l'ambiente che ci circonda. Attraverso un caso studio relativo alla città di Bologna, mostreremo come sia possibile progettare esperienze aumentate sfruttando social network georeferenziati - nella fattispecie Foursquare. - Abstract esteso: Slideshare:
Location Based Social Networks. Location-Based Social Media Marketing for Small Businesses. Location, location, location: it's vital in property sales (and late-night comedy monologues). And if you play your cards right, location-based social media services can help you spread awareness of your business and drive customers to your door. The check-in feature at Facebook exemplifies location-based social media use at its simplest. When you check in on Facebook, you're just telling your Facebook Friends "Here I am! " Google+ and Yelp up the ante by encouraging users to leave reviews. Other social networks are completely built around location-based services. The biggest practitioner of gamified check-ins is Foursquare, but it has plenty of company.
When someone completes a task or checks into a location-based social network, the social network pushes that achievement to the person's friends and to anyone nearby. The Good News Creating a location-based marketing campaign on a social network can cost next to nothing. The Bad News. Location-Based Social Networks. The dimension of location brings social networks back to reality, bridging the gap between the physical world and online social networking services. In this project, we introduce and define the meaning of location-based social network (LBSN) and discuss the research philosophy behind LBSNs from the perspective of users and locations.
The 4th International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks ( LBSN 2012 ) will be held in conjunction with UbiComp 2012 at (CMU) Pittsburgh, USA. Dr. Yu Zheng gave a Tutorial on Location-Based Social Networks at WWW 2012. A social network is a social structure made up of individuals connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interests, and shared knowledge.
A location can be represented in absolute (latitude-longitude coordinates), relative (100 meters north of the Space Needle), and symbolic (home, office, or shopping mall) form. . [1] Yu Zheng. . [2] Yu Zheng. Location and Social networks Sharing and Understanding. Geosocial networking. An infographic illustrating and comparing the popularity of different geosocial networking services in August 2010 History[edit] The evolution of geosocial can be traced back to the implication of social application programming interfaces by internet-based corporations in the early 2000s.
EBay uses one of the oldest, announcing its social API at the end of 2000 and allowing free access to over 21,000 developers in late 2005.[3][4] Amazon's primary API was released in 2002, which allowed developers to pull consumer information like product reviews into third-party applications.[5] Google, Inc. began testing an API in April 2002 and currently owns dozens that are used by thousands of applications.[3] The Facebook Developer's API is considered the first to be specific to a social network and was launched in 2006.
Uses[edit] Geosocial networking allows users to interact relative to their current locations. The technology has obvious implications for event planning and coordination. Location Based Social Networks Links - BDNooZ. So here is the list I compiled while looking for Location Based Social Networking sites. On Dec 2010 I started to add also Location Based Social Apps and Games. Please note it is not my intention to recommend or endorse any of them, and they are presented in alphabetical order. I encourage you to leave comments about your experience with any of them. Those in RED are discontinued, stop development, closed or not 100% functional. I put a separate section on the bottom from Dec-10, as they grew in number. Visit also the Location Based Social Networking list on Georillas FACEBOOK Page If you find any LBSN missing on the list, just post a comment at the end of the page.
Check how to incorporate many of this Location Based Social Networks into a Location Based Marketing Strategy with georillas.com There are hundreds of location based social networks, location based services and location based advertising solutions. Aka-Aki Location Based Social Network Ask around Askalo USA Badoo Broadcastr Coloci. Facebook Has Acquired Gowalla. Facebook has acquired location-based startup Gowalla, according to a report this evening by Laurie Segall on CNN Money. The terms of the deal haven’t been reported, and Gowalla declined to comment. Facebook says it doesn’t comment on rumor and speculation. Update: We’ve heard from an independent source that Facebook is indeed acquiring Gowalla. According to CNN’s report, the Gowalla team will be working on Facebook Timeline, with most of the team moving to Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters and some remaining in Gowalla’s hometown of Austin, where Facebook has an office as well.
Gowalla, which has raised $10.4 million to date, first launched at SXSW 2009 — going head-to-head against Foursquare, with a stronger emphasis on virtual goods (and nicer icons) than their competitor. In other words, it’s not too dissimilar to Facebook’s Timeline feature, which is also designed to group clusters of activity into more cohesive stories, as opposed to just a reverse-chronological feed. Have Location-Based Social Media Stalled? | By Larry Mogelonsky. By Larry Mogelonsky I first wrote over a year and a half ago on how hoteliers could use Foursquare, a network experiencing exponential growth at the time.
As a rising star, it was critical that hoteliers know the playing field and be ready to anticipate marketing tactics for this new channel. A lot has happened in the online realm since then, and yet it doesn't seem as though location-based social media services have flourished into the omnipotent customer influencers as previously purported. Yelp has reached critical mass. There's movement, but the hype engine has stalled. One bright light: Facebook. Elsewhere, in a rather bold move in July, Foursquare has launched their Promoted Updates services, enabling corporations to advertise to nearby customers. The bottom line: location-based services are a work in progress, but should hotels care? It depends entirely on your existing consumer base, and for the most part I can't bestow a positive endorsement for this geo-social media niche.
Foursquare Aims At A Moving Target As It Tries To Close Another Round Of Funding. This year’s SXSWi did not herald the next Big Thing in tech, as some guessed it wouldn’t, but it wasn’t always this way. In 2010, a year when people were a bit more optimistic about the new new thing, Foursquare was the boss. First appearing in 2009, by 2010 it came into its own as the mayor of the location wars with its app based around checking into places and then sharing that information with your friends. Fast forward to today, and the picture has changed.
Foursquare’s chief competitor Gowalla has gone to Facebook and is making products like Nearby to challenge Foursquare’s dominance in social location. Foursquare has had its share of changes And Foursquare has had its share of changes, too. One part of the problem appears to be that check-ins, the cornerstone of Foursquare’s early growth and its traditionally main source of data points, are no longer what they used to be. Location is, funnily enough, a moving target. And yet, there is another story going on here, too. Social Media Selection Made Simple: Location-Focused Networks - As social media websites become the focal point of countless internet advertising firms, so too have small business owners come to depend on social networks for their ongoing marketing campaigns. While Facebook is the primary social website for many companies these days, the fact is that there is no shortage of social media sites to pick from when trying to improve a company’s conversion rates and traffic.
Although social media companies often ignore many sites when campaigning, the options available to businesses advertising on social networks are rather robust. Over the next few days, I’ll be looking at the half dozen or so websites that most social media advertisers call home. Many small business owners tend to ignore the vast array of networks they could be marketing through and instead rely on Facebook as their sole avenue of social campaigning. In today’s blog post, I’ll be putting the spotlight on those social networks that bring customers directly to a company’s doorstop. 5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media. Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter, and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media. While last year’s SXSW seemed to serve as the "coming out" party for location-based services (LBS), maybe this year’s conference signifies the migration of these platforms into mainstream culture.
And perhaps the only real “new” concept to emerge this year is the idea that there is finally a real opportunity to make money via "location. " Here are five things that companies should consider as they look to utilize location-based services (LBS) as part their mobile strategy. 1. Location Shouldn’t be the Only Goal From finding the nearest ski slope on REI’s Ski and Snow Report to a nearby movie on Flixter, there are plenty of Top iPhone applications that have incorporated a “lead with the offer, not the capability” philosophy into their mobile product offering to provide a better service. 8 Cool Location-Based Social Networks. Internet delle cose e social network georeferenziati - Luca Rosati. Questo è il tema che Francesca Fabbri (Mimulus), Andrea Resmini e io affronteremo nel nostro intervento a Better Software (Firenze, 27-28 giugno): Realtà aumentata e network geolocalizzati.
Arricchire l’esperienza utente integrando atomi e bit. Perché Qual è il nesso fra internet delle cose e user experience “O Giglio-Tigre” disse Alice, rivolgendosi a un fiore di quella specie che si lasciava mollemente dondolare nel vento. “Che bello sarebbe se tu potessi parlare!” (Carroll, Attraverso lo specchio). Quante volte ci siamo smarriti in un ospedale cercando un ambulatorio? Fuoriuscito dallo spazio ristretto dello schermo, il web si sta diffondendo in un insieme sempre più ampio di oggetti quotidiani: la compenetrazione tra atomi e bit (augmented reality, ubiquitous computing) permette un’interazione arricchita con l’ambiente che ci circonda, dà voce alle nostre relazioni con i luoghi e gli oggetti che ci circondano, che divengono così storie documentabili e manipolabili in tempo reale. Foursquare. Foursquare.