Tag Archives: foursquare

24
Nov 10

Another Category Of Place You Really Don’t Want To Check In To

Posted on 24th November 2010 by Gary

There are some places you really don’t want to check into using one of the many location based social networks. There’s a variety of suggestions of this nature on the web including funeral homes, an ex-partner’s house, jail or the … Continue reading →

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13
Oct 10

Quantity Or Quality? The Problem Of Junk POIs

Posted on 13th October 2010 by Gary

In my recent talk to the British Computer Society’s Geospatial Specialist Group, I touched on the “race to own the Place Space“. While the more traditional geographic data providers, such as Navteq and Tele Atlas are working away adding Points … Continue reading →

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25
Jul 10

More Location Tracking; This Time From Foursquare

Posted on 25th July 2010 by Gary

Back in March of this year I wrote about deliberately tracking my journey by using Google’s Latitude and unexpectedly tracking the same journey by looking at the history of my Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins. By using the history function from … Continue reading →

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20
Mar 10

Deliberately (and Unexpectedly) Tracking My Journey

Posted on 20th March 2010 by Gary

I’ve been tracking my journey and in doing so inadvertently uncovered a sea change in the way in which we view the whole thorny issue of location tracking. Yesterday, Ed Parsons and I drove from London to Nottingham and back … Continue reading →

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20
Feb 10

Deliciousness: ringing phones, suicide linux, Flickr plugins, editing, zoomable maps and upsidedownness

Posted on 20th February 2010 by Gary

Today’s social bookmarking deliciousness, from down the back of the internet. Got a colleague who keeps wandering away from their desk and leaving their mobile phone behind, which then keeps on ringing? Maybe they need one of these signs left … Continue reading →

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