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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

Juniper Research has released its top ten wireless predictions for 2011, let’s step through and take a look at where they think mobile is going in the coming year. Juniper believes 2011 will see the first cloud-based mobile operating systems launched. Word has it that Google will launch it’s Chrome cloud OS in early 2011.

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Find Twitter followers by location 2011

Laurel Papworth

Or based on the phone GPS co-ordinates that are sent with the tweet to Twitter. Doesn’t work if they are on a computer or they block GPS location on their phone. Many Twitter mobile phone clients that use the GPS location of the phone may auto-update the Twitter bio from the phone’s location based software.

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An Introduction to Vertical Social Networks

Buffer Social

Co-founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011, the platform is home to both cinephiles and casual viewers who use it for recommendations from friends and Letterboxd influencers. The app uses GPS data and data from other devices like wearables to automate the process of logging bike rides or runs.

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Why Facebook and Twitter are Old News

Ari Herzog

As long as you have a mobile device with GPS identification and the ability to visit a website, you can play. Are Facebook and Twitter less important in 2011 as they were in 2009? Recent comments I really like the idea of the game/GPS, custom apps, etc., The social networking icons are not flashed on the screen.

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Facebook Eavesdropping Patent and Congress Questions

Laurel Papworth

In 2014 ambient patent (filed 2011). For example, if a user’s GPS indicates he is in a movie theatre, the device may automatically turn off its ringer. Imma gonna go with “yes” “For example, GPS devices often do not function indoors. Useful yes. Bloody ringtones in a movie theatre.

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How Appification Is Transforming The Internet

The Realtime Report

Among cellphone users, smartphones have increasingly become the preferred mobile device, with the number of smartphone owners rising from 35 percent of American adults in 2011 to 77 percent in 2016. As smartphone ownership has grown, mobile devices have overtaken desktops as the primary means of accessing the internet.

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The Year Of More

Twist Image

It may (but I'm bullish on it continuing), and this year will be a year where consumers will be even more social than they were in 2011. Through mobile (which are GPS-enabled) and other innovations, there will be a much bigger push to deliver services to the consumer where they physically are in much more effective ways. More global.

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