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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. The National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee says GPS has “accuracy of 7.8 This post was updated 11/11/09.

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Facebook Eavesdropping Patent and Congress Questions

Laurel Papworth

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. I often talk about the Deep Face algorithm in my classes and Facebook’s use of object recognition in videos.

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No Straight Lines / A conversation on the nature of knowledge work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Today all work is knowledge work because even the most manual of activities such as farmer digging post holes for a fence requires pre-planning using their spatial information system, the use of GPS to position the hole and entry of data when it’s done. Social Networks. I wonder why… Imported (uncat). Innovation.

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

Bill Hartzer

Trademark number 97097363. Goods and Services Description.

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Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Network Monitoring. networking. social networking. Speed, agility, flexibility - The HP BladeSystem c-Class. Disaster Recovery. Load Balancing. Operating Systems. Data Center. Energy Efficiency. Space Management. Mainframes. Blade Servers. Virtualization. Innovation. job search. leadership. management. Open Source.

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