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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee says GPS has “accuracy of 7.8 The National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee says GPS has “accuracy of 7.8

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to End Poverty

Stay N' Alive

The Conference, called “Hacking Poverty&# , or </poverty> , as Zach Stay, it’s founder calls it, is a conference whose sole intent is to gather together developers to group together, come up with ideas, and build software to fight poverty. “Twitter GPS Locator App&#. “Twitter GPS Locator App&#.

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to End Poverty

Stay N' Alive

The Conference, called "Hacking Poverty", or , as Zach Stay, it's founder calls it, is a conference whose sole intent is to gather together developers to group together, come up with ideas, and build software to fight poverty. While this is a conference for developers, I think everyone can have a role.

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The Public Doesn't Need to Know What Gov 2.0 is, But They Do Need.

Social Media Strategery

There have been a multitude of new policies , conferences , guidelines , platforms , and even awards for things related to something called Government 2.0 For example, the city of San Francisco has a “Mom&# map – with the locations of all the playgrounds around the city and it is GPS encoded. and Open Government.

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