BBC News: Location-based services still have to win over business
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 09:56
Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw using location-based mobile marketing, but "even experts in this field acknowledge a serious lack of hard data about the commercial power of location-based services."
Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog: Another opportunity lost
Friday, 20 August 2010, 15:31
"Facebook’s announcement yesterday of its entry into the “check-in” space is yet another blow to local media. Local businesses — many of whom already are deep into Facebook — are now being encouraged to create their “places” pages, which is what users will see when they check in via Facebook. Why is FB doing this? The gold in the hills of local advertising."
ReadWriteWeb: Facebook’s Places Feature About to Launch
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 10:53
"Facebook's location service 'Places' is speeding towards an imminent launch … Advertising exec Dave Morgan has argued … that the rise of location based services, because they are so easy to use and compelling, will suck the advertising life-blood out of local newspapers, radio and journalism."
CJR: What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend
Friday, 16 July 2010, 14:48
"Several news organizations have started their own Foursquare accounts in order to push their online content to users based on their physical location. … Having your Foursquare-augmented-reality experience curated by a brand you know and trust might not be so bad. There’s a lot of noise out there; if I’m using Foursquare to augment my reality anyway, maybe I would like to have my pop-ups limited to the things I actually care about. Like, say, information about interesting historical buildings, or a feed of recent news stories linked to the physical locations where they happened."
The Next Web: Proof That Location’s Gone Mainstream: The Celebrity Stalking App
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 11:02
"Now [OK!] magazine’s publisher, Northern & Shell has released an iPhone app that is essentially a location-based guide to celebrity hangouts and misdemeanors. The app uses the iPhone’s location services to help you locate nearby celebrity haunts and find out which big names like to hang at them. … Users can chat to staff writers via Twitter from the app and if they spot a celebrity, they can upload a geotagged image which may end up getting used in the magazine."
Advertising Age: How Facebook’s Geo-Networking Plans Will Change Everything
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 09:27
"Almost overnight, the ability to easily broadcast your location on and via Facebook will be put into the hands of about 500 million people — 500 million people that retailers and businesses with physical locations will have the opportunity to influence people nearby to visit."
Business Insider: Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 13:54
"Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley told us he fully expects Facebook and others to launch 'check-in' functionality, making it 'commodity by the end of the year.'"
Poynter Online: How EveryBlock Code is Being Used to Develop Location-Based Journalism
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 10:02
"Over and over again, the growing importance of location awareness in journalism — the ability to connect the events of the day to a particular spot on the planet — was mentioned, along with EveryBlock's role in paving the way for more news organizations to deliver news by location."
Wired: Future of the Web: Location, Location, Location
Friday, 3 July 2009, 14:35
"Location-based applications are quickly becoming the hot new thing on phones. …. The whole reason the web revolutionized the world was that it rendered geography irrelevant. People connected worldwide based not on location but on their common interests … Now mobile phones are inverting everything again, in the other direction — because your location becomes most important thing about you. So how is the return of geography going to change our lives?"
New York Times: A Trove of Clues From Smartphones for Marketers
Saturday, 14 March 2009, 09:39
"Advertisers already tailor ads for small groups of consumers on the Web based on personal information. But cellphones have a much higher potential for personalized advertising, especially when they use applications like Yelp or Urbanspoon with GPS to identify a person’s location, right down to the street corner where they are standing."
SearchEngineWatch.com: Google Adds “My Location” Search Feature to Windows Mobile Devices
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 11:05
"Google has added the ability to search by a user's location to mobile search on select Windows Mobile devices. The feature, dubbed "My Location" uses the Google Gears Geolocation API, which employs Cell ID Technology aka cellular triangulation."
outside.in: Radar Email Alerts. New!
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 10:52
"[Y]ou can now opt to receive email alerts for your [Outside.in] Radar. You’ll get an email anytime someone publishes news happening within 1,000 feet of your selected location, or about any topic or favorite place you’ve added to your Radar."
Friday, 27 June 2008, 11:48
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The full report is now avilable from the Medill Journalism School team studying the impact of location-based technologies on journalism.
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 11:18
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Interesting PCC ruling that could have future implications for newspapers’ geotagging efforts. Also interesting because the existence of a Wikipedia article is part of the justification for allowing newspapers to report information.
