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Husband, Father, coffee addict, Scifi and Electronica fan, UNIX and Mac user and in my day job I'm Director of the Places Registry for Nokia.-
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- Steve Krause on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Love the Plugin Gary! Using it at my site –...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: A quick question on plugins for author images vs. avatars. I think...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, Looks like you’re using the TwentyEleven theme; this...
- Rory on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: hi Gary, one further question … how can i get rid of the...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, The contact details need to be added to your user profile;...
Recent Trackbackage
- John’s Weblog on The Non Golden Rules of Geo: Gary Gale has reproduced the original blog entry here. Categories: Semantic...
- edparsons.com on A smartphone without location is just not smart !: Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Adding Windows Phone 7 Support To WordPress...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, buybestultd,...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Putting The Tube On The Grid; A Geeked Out...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, Karen Leech. Karen...
- de.straba.us on WhereCamp EU 2011 – The Geo Unconference For Europe: Gale, con il post “Ich Bin Geograph” – WhereCamp EU Is Coming To...
Travels
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This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
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- It. Is. Cold. (@ Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) w/ @bunterberg) http://t.co/R8WCWtrY about 26 minutes ago from foursquare
- WP Biographia (http://t.co/kCYCjgx7) is getting i18n; Spanish and Turkish are already in the works. Get in touch if you'd like to help. about 6 hours ago from web
- @SalPavone Check out FAQ # 5 on http://t.co/BojfSpBe; the bio information goes in your user profile settings (Dashboard/Users/Your Profile) about 6 hours ago from web in reply to SalPavone
- Heading to Berlin this morning and then to Düsseldorf; packing my thermals after looking at the weather forecast. Brrrr. about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
- Snowing. Definitely Snowing. http://t.co/dd4sS1vX 09:52:31 PM February 04, 2012 from Instagram
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Tag Archives: gowalla
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Deliberately (and Unexpectedly) Tracking My Journey
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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Feb 10
Feb 10
Location is a Key Context, But Most People Don’t Know This
Like a lot of people, I get most of the information I use, both personally and professionally, from the web; from RSS feeds, from keyword search alerts and from Twitter. The genesis of my recent Theory of Stuff slowly accumulated out of … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, context, echoecho, engagement, foursquare, geotagged, gowalla, hyperlocal, local, location, streetview, stuff, sunnyvale, theory, yahoo
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Feb 10
Feb 10
The Location Battle Between You and Your Phone
Whenever I talk about the privacy implications inherent in sharing your location with an app or service, I keep coming back to the idea that it’s essential to be your own source of truth for your location. This is a slightly verbose … Continue reading
