Sol Young

Steven Hodson, in a post over on Mashable, describes security risks and the waste of information that mobile phone GPS use brings (when pinpointing and announcing our locations). He poses some extremely valid points in regards to announcing one’s geolocation via Twitter, Brightkite, or FriendFeed being useless noise.
Telling people via a highly conversational medium such [...]

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Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense
Just a couple ideas on GPS, tied to proximity of a mobile phone…

Proximity based ads (walk by Banana Republic and get a coupon via SMS)
Location based music (Last.fm channels playing artists from your location)
Mobile OnStar

Think of your favorite services on the net and add a GPS component… It probably enhances [...]

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view in Google Earth
This morning’s run was notable. Honeysuckle and other sweet flowers filled the air next to the Schuykill River… Far better than the expected dead fish, exhaust, and port-a-potties.

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Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding - mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement in [...]

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Was just updating the MyBlogLog services tab (not my most liked service, but it has a good listing)…
Here’s a breakdown of the sites and social networks I frequent. Numbers indicate my personal value (10 being daily use and highly valuable and 1 being a land-grabbed account and following the service’s popularity). Plus (+) indicates rising [...]

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