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Software for your Nokia E71

December 11, 2008 Mobile

UPDATE: I’ve now created a dedicated page for mobile software that I recommend. Go to Software for your Nokia to see the latest.
Following up on yesterday’s post about more unique uses for GPS, here’s some stuff I’m running on my Nokia E71 which I’m finding really useful.
Traffic Pilot – download the client to your phone [...]

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5 Uses for Low Cost GPS Tracking

December 10, 2008 Web/Tech

With low cost GPS tracking devices, it is now make it economically feasible to electronically “tag” people and things that you love. A couple of examples:

Lobster Pots
Celebrities such as Simon Cowell
The baby Jesus statue in the nativity
Your pet dog
Lingerie???

But no one has come up with the most obvious application suggested to me by Yahoo [...]

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Track Me Panel at Web 2.0 Summit

November 9, 2008 Events

Sharing location has become much easier but it brings up a lot of new questions. Who owns the data, what can you do with this data? Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media has been exploring these issues with the Where 2.0 conference and brought together four people at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit to discuss [...]

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Garmin to provide directions to your friends

August 24, 2008 Maps

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Congratulations to my buddy Walt Doyle! His company, publishes the Facebook app, Buddy Beacon, which you use to broadcast your physical location to your friends. They’ve got and iPhone app and, just recently, they announced a partnership with Garmin to provide an overlay to Garmin’s GPS maps so you can see where [...]

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