Tag Archives: wi-fi
Emerging Geo-location Technologies and Social Media
The following is a guest post by James Mowery. Though it may seem that geo-location is the latest technology trend to enter the realm of social media on the Internet, the origins can be traced to the summer of 2006 in Manhattan. Game developer area/code debuted Plundr at the “Come Out and Play” street festival in New York. Plundr was a pirate adventure game that utilized Wi-Fi Positioning System and it mapped the players’ location in real time. In 2010, geo-location is causing quite a stir in the social media networks. The predominant technology is GPS. Other technologies used include: geocaching, Wi-Fi Positioning, IP address location, and data mining. Smartphones …
The definitive iPhone strategy for iGoogle users
So you’re thinking about an iPhone? I am a heavy user of iGoogle (e-mail, calendar, RSS reader, bookmarks, movies, weather, shared documents, stock market, etc.). I went out and bought an iPhone to replace my old Nokia plain-jane model. Since then, I have gone through the motions to make it more and more useful. While I expected a life-changing transformation, I had no idea of how amazing it would be. It is possible to truly “synch” your contacts, e-mail and calendar with Gmail, essentially in real-time. So, now if you lose your phone, you will not “lose” any data. My old BlackBerry had it’s own little inbox/outbox, so stuff sent …
