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The Mobile Marketing Revolution and Location Intelligence – Seminar at Versailles

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Over 120 persons RSVP to the VBC event in Miami

I’ll post my comments here after the event.

If you had the opportunity to participate, I’ll appreciate your feedback. What do you see in this map now?

Thank you!

Claudio Schapsis

Twitter and Maps – Locating your followers one tweet at a time

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Twitter announced the Geotagging API back in August and officially released it by the end of November Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro already support this API.

Three weeks after of the official Geotagging API release I made a quick search looking for applications that use a combination of Twitter and maps. Note that these applications are not necessarily using the Geotagging API. My main interest was to find integrations of twitter and location/maps. SOME of the results are attached to the end of these notes. Note I didn’t try them or endorse here any of those applications. I hope you can leave a comment if you are using any of them. Read More

Indoor Navigation – The new gold rush? Part-1

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

The navigation ecosystem is changing rapidly. I’ve mentioned in previous posts the consequences of the commoditization of GPS devices. During the last two weeks, I had the opportunity to read many articles about how the navigation market is changing.

This is a time of WAR.

The New York Times published in October Stops and Starts of GPS Apps “… those portable devices [GARMIN TOMTOM etc] are under attack from a new source: the smartphone, and particularly Apple’s iPhone. The newest version of the iPhone’s operating system supports turn-by-turn navigation … Read More