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Geoloqi - A Private Realtime Platform for Location Sharing

Geoloqi - A Private Realtime Platform for Location Sharing

frenchxsw | French by South West Why geolocation apps can be dangerous By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY Updated 2011-09-27 12:31 PM ISACA's Marios Damianides ISACA today weighed in on how geolocation apps are catching on with mobile device users. The respected global IT professionals association also outlined how location-based services are posing new threats to businesses and consumers. Some 28% of U.S. adults use location-based mobile apps from Facebook, Groupon, Google and others and that number is expected to grow significantly, according to ISACA's new white paper, "Geolocation: Risk, Issues and Strategies." Geolocation apps that pinpoint a user's physical location have opened up numerous new business models. "As the number of geolocation users grows and the proliferation of mobile devices continues, the prospect of individual or enterprise information becoming available to hackers or other unauthorized users is a significant concern," says Damianides. ISACA unveiled a five-step best practices list under the acronym ROUTE:

San Francisco Restaurants, Dentists, Bars, Beauty Salons, Doctors Encounter (game) Project logo Encounter is an international network of active urban games. At the beginning of spring 2002 Ivan started seeking for donors to continue the project. Minsk internet provider "BelInfonet" company was there to sponsor the game. By June 2002 "Skhvatka" games were resumed. Disputes over the project arouse between Ivan Masliukov and "BelInfonet". First I held games on my own then in cooperation with "Belinfonet". Developers of such games like "Hunt", "Skhvatka", and "Dozor" copied the main idea of Encounter, slightly altering the format and task management.[6] As a result Ivan separated from partnership with BelInfonet and created an independent Encounter project.[7] A noteworthy fact is both parties of the conflict registered their game name trademarks "Skhvatka"[8] and "Encounter" [9] in 2002 and 2004 correspondingly. After creation of the Encounter project Skvatka game, being one of several game formats, was called Combat. In 2006 Russian magazine "Kommersant" wrote:[7] "Terror"

Kinetica Artfair - Kinetica Art Fair 5 Cool Non-Profit Uses of Location-Based Tech Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. The continuing evolution of location-based social networking has yielded creative solutions for advocacy, fundraising and crisis response. With the increased competition among services like Foursquare, Gowalla and Whrrl, non-profits are innovating even further. Here are five cool uses of location-based technology for non-profit purposes. 1. Imagine doing more than just going to a Jimi Hendrix rock museum. Whrrl is bringing over 125 stories at over 100 places to six cities around the nation, with more to come. 2. Earlier this week, Larry King held a fundraiser to benefit the Gulf Coast, raising more than $1.7 million. To get the pin, users had to check-in at any spot in the “Park or Nature” category by Monday, June 21st. 3. Earth Justice is seeking to use the money to fight unsafe oil drilling. 4. 5. More Non-Profit Resources From Mashable:

Forecast What? Where? When? Format[edit] The basic rules of the game are:[3] The game is played between a "team of TV viewers" and a team of six experts. Special sectors[edit] "Blitz": three easier questions 20 seconds each. Example questions[edit] Ordinary sector[edit] Question: What, according to Christopher Morley, was invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead? Answer: High heels. Question: Continue the sequence: love, breath, Rome, estate, column, sense, heaven... Answer: Wonder. Question: The ancient Scandinavians used so called kennings, a kind of literary trope. Answer: The hand. Black box questions[edit] Any question ends: is "What is in the Black box"? Question: No modern book has aroused so much talk as the one in the black box. Answer: A telephone book. In big black box was even Bar code (question about EAN standarts)vopros_tvigra.ru (as the example of e-mail address)Dust (and there is the question, not the moth) Musical questions[edit] Question: (Two different pieces of music from J. Answer: A chef.

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