An interesting read on TechCrunch in a recent article about social media, privacy, and most notably, location sharing got us thinking. What stimulated the initial discussion for the article was the recent cluster at facebook regarding their privacy or lack thereof.
10 Killer Resources For Listing your Business For Social Location Services
With the explosion in social media and in particular, social location check-in (think foursquare, Loopt, GoWalla, Yelp, PegShot, etc…) it’s becoming very important for business owners to consider how they can take more ownership over the information that is being shared online (web and mobile) about their business. As a business owner wouldn’t you want […]
Tip – Sunday Sharing & Seven Cool Geo things
We typically share this kind of cool stuff on Friday for a little “Friday fun”, however, things were a little hectic the other day so here’s a little Sunday fun for you! Enter 7 cool things that we’re pleased to share with you… enjoy!
5 Twitter Tips for the Geo Business user
There’s many ways to use Twitter and perhaps most important, there’s many ways that a business can take advantage of Twitter to support marketing efforts, branding, customer support, and most important, to communicate with clients and would-be clients. The following are 5 ways that any GIS/Geo business can use Twitter to support their business.
Social Location Experiment – How Do 11 Popular Social Checkin Apps Stack up?
Does foursquare know where you are? Can GoWalla identify what shop you are near? Can Yelp really position you inside or near your favorite bar?
Geo Social Location Checkin to Twitter from iPhone – So many choices
With the cool SXSW event taking place this week in Austin, TX, everyone who’s anyone in social and social location seems to have rolled out updates this week, making your choice for how to check-in to your social media bookmarks even tougher to decide on!
Is GPS enabled Social Location and Check in Getting Boring?
An article in Business Week raises some good points and touches on a topic that I’ve been thinking about for some time now… is social location check-in getting old? Like other social techno geeks, I frequently check-in to my social media profiles using some of the fun, mobile services out there including: foursquare, Yelp, GoWalla, […]
Twitter Social Location Check-in Clients and Supported Mobile Devices
There’s a number of ways that one can check-in and share where they are and what they are doing via Twitter (many have facebook connect also)
Using ESRI Geo Viewer to Show Geo Tagged Twitter Tweets in Haiti
It seems the ever evolving Geo Viewer from ESRI (recall the Flex viewer that ESRI has been building on all week) now incorporates the ability to search and display Geo Tagged Tweets.
Interesting Tweeple – 10 Geo Technology & Geo-Social Women of Twitter
Forbes recently released an article that hyped 14 powerful women of Twitter. A good read, although I do find it very difficult (and hard to fathom) that anyone can possibly cull 14 stand-outs from millions of users – it is a good attempt though albeit rather subjective. Personally, it makes much more sense to select […]