MSG’s favourite LBS pundit Andrew Grill turns practitioner and provides a detailed look at the location services and schemes high on his radar.
“He says,location isn’t just about coordinates; it’s about community.Internet giants Facebook, Bebo, MySpace & Co. have extended their reach to mobile, they are still working out the value propositions that will make it worthwhile for users to access their mobile sites on the move.
Real-time location, and more specifically, presence, are the features that will give their mobile sites a real boost. Play their cards right and these Internet giants may just find themselves on equal footing with made-for-mobile social networks that understood from the start how to wring real value out of real-time location and presence.”
Read on for more on Google, Yahoo!, and Nokia, as well as a slew of cool newcomer companies sure to leave their mark.Read the full article here.
Link : Location-Based Social Network Apps Are The Crowd-Pleaser; Is Presence Ready For Prime Time?
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aha, I guess mostly since the apple iphone debut, there are a lots of discussion of mobile LBS too. It is quite interesting. Anyway, let me share another interesting mobile LBS tutorial.
http://to.swang.googlepages.com/lbs