Comments on: Social Inspiration: Prime time for location, actions and beyond… http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/01/social-inspiration-prime-time-for-location-actions-and-beyond/ I know people from the future. Ask me anything. Tell me what you know. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:11:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: michaelmuse http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/01/social-inspiration-prime-time-for-location-actions-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-12464 michaelmuse Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:37:56 +0000 http://joelgibby.net/?p=87#comment-12464 Hey Joel - really interesting stuff. I blogged about something last fall: http://www.michaelmuse.com/2009/09/open-letter-to-location-based-services.html The problem has been that until people play nice, it wont work. And while this project we started has gotten a few people on board, the larger companies still arent using them and so we will have to wait for twitter, google, and others to create a universal standard. Tell me what you think of the whole situation. Hey Joel – really interesting stuff. I blogged about something last fall: http://www.michaelmuse.com/2009/09/open-letter-to-location-based-services.html

The problem has been that until people play nice, it wont work. And while this project we started has gotten a few people on board, the larger companies still arent using them and so we will have to wait for twitter, google, and others to create a universal standard. Tell me what you think of the whole situation.

]]> By: joelgibby http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/01/social-inspiration-prime-time-for-location-actions-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-12455 joelgibby Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:11:55 +0000 http://joelgibby.net/?p=87#comment-12455 After some reading it looks like 5o9 is a mobile client that *provides* an API to the developer. This is still very valuable to a lot of people. I could see IT shops using this to roll out stuff like systems management clients or inventory tracking applications. What kind of location resolution can you get or does that all come down to the device's hardware? For example, Skyhook claims to be able to provide location fixes even in buildings where there's not GPS signal (and seems to be doing well at it). Do you see any way (for example in a private or corporate setting) to use WiFi to provide more accurate location than Skyhook currently does? After some reading it looks like 5o9 is a mobile client that *provides* an API to the developer. This is still very valuable to a lot of people. I could see IT shops using this to roll out stuff like systems management clients or inventory tracking applications. What kind of location resolution can you get or does that all come down to the device’s hardware? For example, Skyhook claims to be able to provide location fixes even in buildings where there’s not GPS signal (and seems to be doing well at it). Do you see any way (for example in a private or corporate setting) to use WiFi to provide more accurate location than Skyhook currently does?

]]> By: joelgibby http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/01/social-inspiration-prime-time-for-location-actions-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-12454 joelgibby Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:05:07 +0000 http://joelgibby.net/?p=87#comment-12454 This metadata is being provided by the mobile platform's API, right? For example, iPhoneOS, Android? Do you interface at all with the W3C gelocation API (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html ) or is that in the works? The W3C spec is new to me so I've got some reading ahead of me. Looks like your company developed the mod_gzip package? That's pretty impressive considering how widely it's used across the internet. Thanks for the comments. More posts coming soon. This metadata is being provided by the mobile platform’s API, right? For example, iPhoneOS, Android? Do you interface at all with the W3C gelocation API (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html ) or is that in the works? The W3C spec is new to me so I’ve got some reading ahead of me. Looks like your company developed the mod_gzip package? That’s pretty impressive considering how widely it’s used across the internet. Thanks for the comments. More posts coming soon.

]]> By: peter.cranstone http://joelgibby.net/2010/03/01/social-inspiration-prime-time-for-location-actions-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-12453 peter.cranstone Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:16:17 +0000 http://joelgibby.net/?p=87#comment-12453 Location is relatively easy to get. Take a look at our Mobile solution (www.5o9inc.com) You read whatever meta data you need off the device and then simply add it to the HTTP request headers - at the other end all you do is use a simple script to read the real time location information (and anything else you need). You can then mash that data out to any web service that has an API. You can easily integrate Single Sign On by adding those names to the meta data coming from the mobile device. The simplicity of this approach is that you can do everything in the browser instead of building complex mobile applications. What's more for those browsers that support it, you can use a single line of HTML code to add your own dynamic menus to the browser. Each one ties to it's own service via that single line. Real time GPS enabled search can be enabled via a Mobile browser in about 15 minutes with just a few lines of code. Location is relatively easy to get. Take a look at our Mobile solution (www.5o9inc.com) You read whatever meta data you need off the device and then simply add it to the HTTP request headers – at the other end all you do is use a simple script to read the real time location information (and anything else you need). You can then mash that data out to any web service that has an API. You can easily integrate Single Sign On by adding those names to the meta data coming from the mobile device.

The simplicity of this approach is that you can do everything in the browser instead of building complex mobile applications. What’s more for those browsers that support it, you can use a single line of HTML code to add your own dynamic menus to the browser. Each one ties to it’s own service via that single line.

Real time GPS enabled search can be enabled via a Mobile browser in about 15 minutes with just a few lines of code.

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