About
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...
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This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
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- Snowing. Definitely Snowing. http://t.co/dd4sS1vX about 4 hours ago from Instagram
- It's #uksnow time again. A light dusting in Teddington but it's still coming down. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
- Oh no! Empty! http://t.co/FZL2j6Te 12:35:14 PM February 02, 2012 from Instagram
- New Bloggage: Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial - http://t.co/tM69K0uZ 05:41:27 AM February 01, 2012 from web
- @chillly 5+ WordPress blogs, email on same number of domains, PHP, MySQL, shell access, FTP access, Apache. Nothing too special. 12:14:26 PM January 28, 2012 from web in reply to chillly
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Tag Archives: privacy
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May 11
May 11
Will The New Delicious Still Be … Delicious?
Delicious is dead! Long live Delicious. Like a lot of Delicious users, I recently received a mail urging me to authorise the transfer of my Delicious account and bookmarks to the new service once ownership transfers from Yahoo! to AVOS. … Continue reading
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Apr 11
Apr 11
Location’s “Ick Factor”; First iOS And Now Android
Two days ago I wrote about the “discovery” of a cache file on iOS devices that stores the position of cell towers and the associated media coverage surrounding this. Note that I use “discovery” in inverted commas here. As Sally … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged caching, geotagged, ios, iphone, location, london, privacy, smartphone
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Nov 10
Nov 10
Another Category Of Place You Really Don’t Want To Check In To
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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Oct 10
Oct 10
Does Location Need Some PR Love?
In an interview with GoMo News earlier this year, I talked about “the Bay Area bubble”, this is the mind-set found in Silicon Valley “where a lot of the products and services coming out seem to think your user will … Continue reading
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Aug 10
Aug 10
Facebook Places; Haven’t We Been Here Before?
A week and a half ago Facebook finally launched their Places feature to a predictable media furore over location privacy, regardless of whether it’s justified or not and, to location industry watchers at least, a strong sense of deja vu. … Continue reading
