If the sign says no trucks, might be a good idea to pay attention! The driver of this truck, travelling from Stellarton, Nova Scotia to Moncton, New Brunswick, was carefully following the directions given by his GPS. 
Nothing to see here, just a Google Maps car smashed in like a Coke can. Really, this was no fender bender either. 
No real surprises here, but not all of us are immersed in LBS. Significant growth though! According to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, three-quarters of U.S. 
The Olympic Torch begins its journey across the UK today, visiting (seemingly) every city, village, and wide spot in the road. Fans will be lining the stre. 
So what would you like to see in a location based app? Here’s an iPhone app for those moments when you’re wondering, “Okay, I’ve got some free time right now — what should I do?” 
This seems like one each way to me. I have a different set of people on Foursquare than Facebook. I'd want a lot more control over who gets to see my location on Facebook to use this feature. I guess I could use it selectively. Does that sound strange for someone who promotes location based services and says that privacy is almost by the wayside?
Fans of Foursquare and Facebook will now be getting a little extra integration between the two. The Foursquare team has just tweeted that Foursquare check-ins will now appear as pins on the Facebook... 
A lot of developers have not yet understood the importance of gameification. This is one of the key building blocks of mobile applications for pretty much anything. Whether its getting a mobile workforce to complete their paperwork or helping a tourist appreciate all the locations you want them to see in your city or area.
Part of the problem may be that the concept of game puts people off. But if you have a location based app that isn't being picked up and you think it is an amazing app, maybe this is something you should be thinking about.
SessionM, a startup led by Quattro Wireless co-founder Lars Albright, just announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series B round of funding. 
More and more companies seem to be hitting on the model of giving tablets or mobile devices to retailers to engage with customers. Not a bad way of pushing them gently, but they still have to want to move. Older established businesses in hospitality could be wondering what happened if they are not careful as young folk set up in business or take more control of their family business. Remember that the volume groups of people with the most mobility and money to spend are connected and tech savvy. Old school is great if you have a huge loyal following or large market in a big city, but if it's a competitive market and times are tough, you need to look at what you need to change if you want to stay ahead, or even just stay in business. The good news is people have to eat and drink:)
There are plenty of companies and startups that want to disrupt the food ordering space including Seamless, GrubHub and others. A new competitor is entering the space today. 
Imho its not about the apps or the technology its because people are fundamentally mired in habit and are lazy. Focussing on working smarter rather than harder as per my book Unleashing The Road Warriors, requires focus on that 4-letter word Work. The irony is that people who do not make nest use of their mobile devices are doomed to be less efficient, lose valuable information and not just multi-task but often multi enter the same data whe they get back to the office.
Everybody knows mobile computing is on the rise. Why, then, have the smartphone versions of CRM apps been such slow sellers? Here are some important lessons to learn about all enterprise apps, cloud or otherwise. 
GPS definitely adds a dimension to fitness. I use Map My Walk, a derivative of Map My Run and it lets me track distance, pace and even elevation. I can save walks and share them. The one thing it doesn't give me which I have asked them to put on the development list is the ability to see all the locations I have walked at the same time so I can plan walks I haven't done before and continually walk new areas. I did that when I used to ocean kayak. I used a highlighter in a map book and every time I went out I would start out where I left off. This gave me the motivation to kayak the entire inner and outer greater Auckland coastline on the Waitemata side.
Trees are spouting leaves, flowers are sprouting where you would not ordinarily expect flowers, and the mornings and evenings are warm enough to get outdoors. Time to put on those running shoes, grab that bike or just go for a stroll. This is the way of now, not the future. Follow the elections from your tablet, mobile or other device. Many people still do not appreciate that location is one of the most significant aspects of what we do and the world we live in. It is all about location and if you can analyse what's going on, more power to you.
From 8pm this evening (French time) you will be able to watch the results of the French presidential election live on a Google Map. 
Councils have beebn building apps for their own internal use to combat graffiti for years, but surely crowd sourced is way better and its free. It also creates a better relationship between the public and councils. Software can verify the source, the location and compare results with other submissions as validation and where tagging is involved, use recognition to quickly build patterns understanding who is doing the tagging and build a profile on them in order to bring them to justic.
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VenueSeen launched their new platform today that lets businesses aggregate location specific sentiment, via social photography. What does that mean in layman’s terms? |
Water for People is a Google Maps reporting system used to monitor and record data from tens of thousands of water points around the world. 
I suspect there are a lot of people who would like to participate in social media, but have concerns over privacy. Anonymity may be the difference for them to participate. Of course if you don't know who you are talking to, you also need to question validity, safety, security and value. On the other hand it could be fun.
On one end of the spectrum, networks like Twitter and Facebook have acted as catalysts to organizing events like the Arab Spring or the riots of London. 
Facebook has just acquired mobile commerce startup Karma, which makes apps for gifting friends and family. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but 16 employees of the startup will be joining Facebook. Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com 
Now we're talking, this is what the car of tomorrow is going to be like and a race is about to start for who has the most user friendly features. I've never owned a Hyundai and while I'm getting close to my next car, its not on my shopping list. But if a car like this appeared in my price range in New Zealand, I'd be going for a test drive at the very least to try out the features and they could well sway me.
This is the car of the future, mobile apps and entertainment, telematics,remote start (I so miss having that from my old Code Alarm system in my Maxima) local Points of Interest fed live into my car nav. One day we won't know how we survived without these apps. Today they are just out of reach on the horizon.
... horn & lights, lights-only and remote vehicle start (not available on all models); Search, save and send POIs to vehicles for in-car navigation; Innovative new features: car finder, parking meter/timer and vehicle diagnostics ... An excellent idea for education. GmapGIS is an easy to use Google Map creation tool which allows you to quickly draw polygons, lines, labels and markers on a map and then save for later use or editing. 
There have been many discussions about geocacheing and locating more than a parcel to dig up. There are a number of apps around or in development that allow you to leave a voicer message that is geotagged for people to find, an example is oral history about the location which is a cool idea. This looks to be a step further which could be very interesting for location based tourism and location based education.
Doccaster wants to disrupt document-sharing, but it’s attacking the space from a new angle: it’s not just about storing files in the “cloud,” it’s about tying files to a location. 
We have been predicting this for so long, now people are just doing it.
Do you regularly use your cell phone to coordinate meetings, solve an unexpected problem, decide which restaurant to eat at, look up the score of a sporting event, check traffic, call help in an emergency situation or find information to help... 
Have you checked out a book from your public library and read it on your iPad yet? You didn’t know you could do that? This week I loved TweetedTrips, an application that lets you create a journey map of your geotagged Twitter messages in a matter of seconds. 
This is something we don't have to deal with in New Zealand, but it is an interesting step. Fleet Management in order to ensure vehicles are safe. Of course it would also be helpful then to have tornadoes GPS tagged:)
The Norman Public School District is taking steps to keep students safe during severe weather. 
Getting to the cache location was a bit boggy. We didn't read the description telling us to wear wellies until it was too late! 
picture:BIA/Kelsey has just put out a prediction that local-mobile search will surpass local search on the PC in 2015. |
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