Posts Tagged ‘Foursquare’

Geolocation Part 2: The Privacy Issue

Posted in Social Media on March 16th, 2010 by Leah – 2 Comments

So Twitter now features location-sharing. Surprise! We all saw it coming, especially as this week’s South By Southwest Festival was fast approaching. And as great minds think alike, we should probably expect each social media giant to reveal its own geolocation features, adding yet another layer to the competition for market dominance. Until then, we’re left to ponder geolocation’s infamous underlying issue: privacy. Because as social media becomes an even more normalized part of our society, we find ourselves faced with unprecedented challenges to the security of our information.

Let’s start with the basics. What, exactly, is internet privacy? And why does it matter? read more »

Racing to Conquer the Globe: The Emergence of Geolocation

Posted in Mobile Apps, Social Media, Twitter, User Generated Content on March 11th, 2010 by Leah – Be the first to comment

Foursquare and Gowalla. One, a fantastic childhood game. The other, an offshoot of a popular smoothie brand? Nope! They’re both big names in the newest social networking trend—geolocation. The progression makes sense: profile viewing led to wall posts, which led to to status updates, eventually leading to status updates on your mobile device, which could only logically lead to where we find ourselves today—in love with physical location updates. And word on the street is that these location-based services, though still relatively under the mainstream radar, are here to stay. But nothing this interesting stays a secret for long, and starting this weekend we may see the beginning of the end: this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi), running March 12-16 in Austin, Texas, will be the “ strategic playing field” for the current geolocation forerunners.

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Location-based Services: An Introduction

Posted in Mobile Apps on December 7th, 2009 by Tanvir Alam – 1 Comment

Location-based services.  Regardless of how tech-savvy you are or aren’t, it’s a smaller area of the larger Web 2.0 phenomenon that you won’t be able to avoid much longer. People nowadays are talking about Facebook this and Twitter that, but, before you know it, this might be the next technology to take off, elevating the social experience to new heights, and in the process, stirring its fair share of praise and criticism along the way.

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