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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. Ari Herzog is currently seeking a full time position in social media.

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Car Spying – This company is looking to sell your real-time Car Location to US Military

Tweaklibrary

While some of the recent cars have a GPS built-in which rules out the HOW factor, certain companies can still access your location in real-time without a GPS. The data collected by those sensors is sent to the OEMs through vehicle-embedded communication systems. Do share your views on this in the comment section below.

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Review- Photos EXIF Editor Best Way to Remove Location and Other Metadata

Tweaklibrary

Usually, the information associated with the image includes: Location in form of GPS coordinates. A few noteworthy are listed below: Erase private data like location, GPS, camera details, etc. Another noteworthy option of Photos EXIF Editor is that it allows editing GPS coordinates present on the image. Why Remove EXIF Data?

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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Election 2.0 – List of social media election sites to watch.

Laurel Papworth

You can see the embedded tweet is from Lyndal Curtis Chief Political Correspondent. If your camera takes a GPS position (and a lot do) a map will also be displayed for the location of the brochure. Shame we can’t comment or ask questions about the brochures. Be interesting to see if they get any comments… 6.

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