#lbs (12 links)
- Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way aboutfoursquare.com
Basically paste your KML feed into the Google Maps search box.
- Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
- Fire Eagle Guest Pass slideshare.net
Presentation on ace Fire Eagle hack.
- building.jjh - The potential of location-aware music streaming building.jjholloway.com
The more I think about it, the more I want a portable Last.fm player. Not just a client app, but a proper dedicated piece of hardware, with big round love, ban and skip buttons.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode labs.mozilla.com
An experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3 today, and users can tell us what they think of the experience it provides.
- People-centric Mobile Computing | About Mobility Weblog weblog.cenriqueortiz.com
An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software, which explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to as People-centric mobile computing.
- My thoughts on Consumer LBS - RussellBeattie.com russellbeattie.com
Disagree with most of this but an interesting perspective. "Most LBS applications are a black hole of wasted time, effort, money, and opportunity."
- Blog on Fire » Blog Archive » Fire Eagle is open!! feblog.yahoo.net
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
- 2D Sense 2dsense.com
QR and other 2D code recognition for iphone
A Twitter client that adds photos and geolocation as well as clickable URLs and Follow / Stop Following control within the app. With it, you can find people twittering near you.