article thumbnail

4 Ways To Tap Into Local Markets

Harp Interactive

Coordinates on the page boost your visibility and enhance usefulness as people are able to copy them directly into their GPS devices and get them on mobile phones via Apps. Flickr and Panoramio geotag and display these images in a mapping context. Google has added geotagging to Blogger. Considering there are some 1.25

article thumbnail

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

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Repositioning Through Social Media: The Conan O’Brien-Case

Mindjumpers

A huge orange blimp – hot air balloon – with a build in GPS has been circling around major cities on the east coast during the month of October enabling Foursquare-users to earn a Conan-BlimpSpotter badge as well as seeing images on Flickr. • A Twitter account as we described in our previous Conan-post , which is now close to 1.8

article thumbnail

Has Social Media Killed Off Privacy?

Laurel Papworth

What with Tom Tom selling our GPS data to the police that then book us for speeding, and facial recognition connecting our faces to our social networks and the privacy implications that entails, are we thinking enough about the big issues in our rush to upload, tag and share content in online communities?

Privacy 104
article thumbnail

6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

I’ve always found Foursquare a bit creepy; turns out there’s actually an app named Creepy that aggregates “GPS coordinates for any user (of geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr), pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map…Essentially, it’s a stalker’s dream app.&#

article thumbnail

Creating a Virtual Community to Build a Better Blog

ProBlogger

Image via Flickr user Steve.Garner32. A Virtual Race can be done anywhere around the globe within a fixed timeframe, and the GPS data from a sports watch or smart phone is submitted for your time. . This is a guest contribution from Sarah Loomes of licoriceandolives.com. That was where my Virtual Race Series came in.

article thumbnail

Google Adwords geo-targeting

Little Web Giants

Rather they use a device’s IP address (in the absence of a GPS signal). bug photo by John Tann (Flickr). According to Google, they do not yet use the W3C Geolocation Specification to determine where a given user is from. The geolocation data for Paul’s IP address were as follows for four providers: Geolocation data provider.

Adwords 31