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Entries Tagged as 'Pownce'

Mobile phone GPS a security risk? Only to those who follow you

June 25th, 2008 · Comments

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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Tags: Etiquette · Facebook · Flying · FriendFeed · GPS · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Pownce · Security · Social Networking · Twitter · Wearing

Mobile Phone GPS - Where are we going?

June 22nd, 2008 · Comments

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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Tags: BlackBerry · Bold · Etiquette · Facebook · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Nokia · Pownce · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Wearing · Web Services · iPhone · iPhone 3G

Micro-blogging a 10-mile run - Broad Street Philadelphia, 2008 - Utterz

May 4th, 2008 · Comments

I ran Philadelphia’s Broad Street run, a 10-mile race today, while carrying an iPhone, making calls, checking Twitter, and taking and posting pics. I chronicled the day with Twitter, Utterz, Flickr, and TwitPic. I used Snapture, iFlickr, and SendPics iPhone apps.
Quick Links to the streams:

Flickr Photostream
Twitter
Utterz

My plan was to Twitter my progress and TwitPic/Flickr the [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Flickr · Jaiku · Jailbreak · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Nike+ · Pownce · Running · Social Networking · TwitPic · Twitter · Utterz · Wearing · Web Services · iPhone

Flow - Day 9 - Open it up

April 1st, 2008 · Comments

I’m used to the speed of the flow and it’s slow. It’s time to open it up and look for five-figures…
Useful link: flow entries
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I read the flow of XMPP Twitter traffic with breakfast and in the evenings. I then scan it when checking email or if I catch a lot of [...]

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Tags: Education · Facebook · Flickr · Flow · Pownce · Prediction · Social Networking · Twitter · Web Services · XMPP

Integrate an announcement service (Twitter/Pownce/Jaiku) in your next release

March 23rd, 2008 · Comments

As developers, if you’re building services your customers can share, you need to plan on announcement integration.
I keep thinking back to February when I wanted a better way to integrate Twitter. Others wonder about Twitter being a source of lost content, as Cartoon Barry describes well. If a visitor is on my site I want [...]

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