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15/3 Motivational Post-it Notes
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 18:46
Place-Its: A Study of Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones by Timothy Sohn, Kevin A. Li1, Gunny Lee, Ian Smith, James Scott, and William G. Griswold, Ubicomp 2005.An interesting excerpt, in regard to this.
Our study revealed unexpected uses of location-aware reminders. We found that Place-It notes were often used for creating motivational reminders to perform activities that would vary in priority over time. This is similar to using post-it notes in highly visible areas for motivation. The locations for motivational reminders were often set at frequently visited places, such as ‘home’. We also found that a majority of the uses for Place-Its involved communicating with people through a variety of media (e.g. email, phone). Communication is typically not tied to specific locations, implying that location is being used as a cue for other kinds of situational context.See also: Post about GeominderVia Nicolas Nova
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13/2 Pointing the real world with your phone
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 20:18
Pointing Based Solutions for Mobile Phones
With Mapion Local Search, users can now walk down the street anywhere in Japan and point at over 700,000 objects such as buildings, shops, restaurants, banks, historical sites and instantly retrieve information on what they are looking at or find what they are looking for just by pointing their phone. Just like one uses a mouse to click on an object on a computer screen and retrieve information, now users can Click on the Real World® using their mobile phone.Mapion Local Search combines Mapion’s POI (Point of Interest) information on objects all over Japan (including map data) with GeoVector’s pointing based technology and spatial search engine to give Japanese users the world’s first personal local search. According to Takehiko Murata, President of CyberMap Japan “Mapion Japan is always searching for pioneering technologies to improve our user experience and incorporating GeoVector’s technology allows us to give users an experience available nowhere else in the world and an advantage over our competitors.”See some demos here.Via Sascha Schmidt
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04/2 Location Based Marketing by Russell Buckley
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 20:11
Location Based Marketing - Could it Really Work?Part One
Part 1 identified that the key to success is the type of messages that marketers plan to send in the channel. It’s key to getting potential users to sign up in the first place (opt in), stopping them from opting out on an ongoing basis and it’s key if the messages are going to work and that recipients will respond to them.Part Two
In Part 2, we looked at some of the physical characteristics of LBM messages, that are essential to success, such as they should be free, not interrupt the mobile user and that they should quietly disappear when they have stopped being relevant.Part Three
In this final part, I’m going to look at the content of the advertising itself - saving the most important discussion to last.
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09/11 Location-Based Mobile Media Blog
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 02:17
Interesting blog: Location-Based Mobile Media: Maps, Games and StoriesThe last post is about Google + Local + Mobile, already blogged at Smoothplanet.See also:mobile, locative and pervasive technologyVia this blogject and objects that blog
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07/11 Mobile Landscape
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 14:32
The city demands continuous interpretation
Today the experience, infrastructure and morphology of the city are more closely related than ever before. The profusion of handheld electronic devices with increasingly powerful networking capabilities offers its users new modes of interaction within the urban environment. It also provides designers, artists, and theoreticians a new means for engaging and understanding the city. Therefore, forget old ways to describe cities!Fab wrote:
People of SENSEable City Lab have developed a continuously changing real-time maps of cell phone usage in Graz, Austria. They “track” anonymous data from thousands of mobile phones. The get the data by ‘pinging’ the cell phones, so they probably have an agreement with austrian GSM providers. The project is a means of observing, and reading the city, a tool that traces its evolution and real-time fluctuation.Info and Pictures via Fab
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01/11 Location Without GPS
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 13:47
I didn't listen to this mp3 yet, but it sounds promising.TV: Location Without GPS
Todd Young represents Rosum Corporation, a company that has developed a way to use unmodified broadcast TV signals for positioning in these places where GPS often fails. These signals penetrate buildings and are already available worldwide.This critically useful technology is the result of work by Dr. James Spilker, the co-architect of GPS, and Dr. Matthew Rabinowitz, an expert in high-precision navigation systems. It has the potential to revolutionize location positioning and provide a base for the development of helpful new services.See also:
Where 2.0
Rosum Corporation
Rosum White Paper: A New Positioning System Using Television Synchronization Signals
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12/10 Place and Space
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 11:51
From Technology and geography: some work in progress by Barry Brown and Louise Barkhuus
In our own work we have studied these issues in a range of conceptual, empirical and design led activities. These two approaches can be categorised as either “space” work, concerned with how specific places and activities are connected together (potentially globally), and “place” work, concerned with the details of interactions in specific places. While we can divide up our work in this way, this is perhaps a difficult distinction to make since many technologies (such as maps) cross over, since although they are used in specific places they are produced as a standardised spatial view.Via Folksomologies and spatial technologies
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11/10 Mologogo
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 02:00
Mologogo
Mologogo is a free service that will track a "friends" GPS enabled cell phone from another phone(gps not required) or on the web.Mologogo is totally "alpha" right now, but improving rapidly. It is was built as a Web 2.0 app, so expect integration with sites like Flickr, Upcoming.org, Judy's book, and lots more RubyOnRails/AJAX-y goodness added to our UI. And with our soon to be released API, you'll be able to access your own location data in other sites.Update: 12.10.05Now they have a Wiki too!
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05/10 Subway Maps on your iPod and Mobile Google Maps
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 00:20
Just bought my Nano too, so the Subway Maps on iPod could be cool, if I had a subway...But hey, do we really need an iPod for that? A mobile phone could do as well, n'est-ce pas?Another not yet a location-based service, but we are not far: Mobile GMaps. According to M-E-X-Blog it is just way to expensive - without the flatrate.See also:Nikolay Klimchuk who is the author of the henson.midp.Float class for float point calculations.andYahoo Maps (not yet mobile)
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14/9 Semapedia
Category: Location-based Services By editor at 00:55
Semacode + Wikipedia = SemapediaCheck out the learn more section and the blog.One step more and the Hofburg not only needs a Sema- or QRcode for the place, but uses such codes also inside the building, in their brochures etc. Like in Japan.
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