Archive for April, 2007
FONFinder Issue Tracking
I thought I’d open up this post to collect issues, bugs and feature requests for the FONFinder. I’ll update it over time. Drop me a comment if there’s something on your mind about FONFinder. There are currently issues with special characters. Especially the Umlauts are a problem as they are quite common in German/Austrian street […]
Filed under: FON, FONFinder, Geek, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Mobile, Phone, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment
During my daytime job, I have stumbled across many definitions of what’s a Location Based Service and what’s not – most of them including the requirement that in order to qualify as ‘location based’, the service must determine the user’s location automatically in some way, e.g. via the mobile network operator, a GPS device, known […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geography, LBS, Location, Mashups, Mobile, Mobile Social Networks, Phone, Technology, Twitter, Web, Web 2.0 | 13 Comments
Without much further ado – I’m releasing my newest geek-project into the wild: a first version of the FONFinder can now be seen and tried at fonfinder.mobi. UPDATE: I’ve started to collect and track issues, bugs and feature requests here. Drop me a comment if there’s something you want to let me know! For those […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geography, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Mobile, Phone, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments
FONFinder News
Wow, news about FONFinder is spreading faster than I expected! Ogle Earth has mentioned me in this recent blog entry, less than a day after my original post! Now that, of course, puts me under pressure to finish FONFinder even sooner! And with some style 😀 I’m currently in the middle of designing graphics and […]
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FONFinder is Progressing!
It’s been a while since my last private, spare-time-wasting geek development project. In fact, it’s been so long that I even closed down the no.5 geekvault in the meantime! (It’s the no.5 blog’s equivalent to Google’s Google Labs – sorry for the shameless exaggeration 😀 ) But now, after all these months, I’m back! Working […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geography, Java, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Mobile | 5 Comments
Nokia N95 Release
Nokia is gearing up its promotion activities for the release of the N95: Check out this hilarious online commercial for their ultimate GPS-/Wifi-enabled, Location-API/SVG-API/SIP-API/M3G-API-supporting multimedia computer!
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Sonopia is a new service that lets you create your own branded Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), attract subscribers and provide mobile content to your users. Info can be found at MobileCrunch and TechCrunch. Despite the full-bodied ‘be your own mobile carrier’ slogan, I wouldn’t consider Sonopia to be more than a glorified member-gets-member referral […]
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The Shroud: LBS Role Playing
The Shroud is a multiplayer role playing game for mobile phones currently nearing completion. The game will come with a special ‘GPS challenge’ game mode that incorporates users’ real-world location into the gameplay: ‘Challenges’ placed at random GPS locations nearby must be found and completed by physically moving there. YourWorld games, creator of the game, […]
Filed under: Geek, Geography, GPS, LBS, Location, Mobile, Phone, Technology | 1 Comment
It’s one of those ideas that appeal to the geek in me. Found at Ogle Earth: While everyone is speculating about Google’s possible plans to turn Google Earth into a metaverse like Second Life, a clever Second Life/Google Earth mashup instead goes the other way round – and adds virtual globe browsing to Second Life! […]
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