With the technical challenges more or less resolved, I think the biggest challenge for LBS is user acceptance owing to privacy and security issues.
Location based services face distrust by users owing to the loss of personal freedom and control over the technology e.g. intrusive advertising, commercial pressure, loss of autonomy, etc. It is crucial for [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, tagged geotagging, LBS, Mobile on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is up at mTrends. The main focus this week is on one of my favorite topics “LBS” with almost half the posts on this topic alone, also covers mobile advertising, mobile workforce, NFC, mobile apps and mobile browser.
And what do you know, it also features my post in the [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Web, tagged geotagging, GPS, iPhone, LBS, maps, Mobile, Web on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Geotagging lets you add geographic information, such as latitude and longitude as indicated by the integrated GPS system, to any digital content — from pictures and videos to news articles and blog posts . So when you take a picture/video or post a blog your location is also saved. Then you can overlay [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Web, tagged business, LBS, location, Mobile, mobile search, mobile social networking, search on June 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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Another one in the “What I want…” series. I’m focusing on ‘Local Search on mobile’ and not ‘Search on mobile’ because people searching from their mobiles will usually be doing so on the go and hence would mostly be focusing on local content like searching for something or someplace close by (or someone, [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Usability, User Experience, Web, tagged business, location, Mobile, mobile social networking, scenarios, Social Networking, User Experience on May 27, 2008 | 20 Comments »
In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had discussed how mobile can extend the reach of a social network and open up new ways of socializing. I have gone through a couple of mobile social networks out there and they are nowhere near my expectations. So I decided to list down [...]
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Social networking via the mobile phone is a big buzz these days. MOBILE user generated content and social networking was worth 3.45 B in 2006 (don’t have access to current numbers but I bet it’ll be more than double that). New services for mobile phones have been developed that allow people to create, develop, and [...]
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