Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
LBS in the Year 2008
Now that the Mobile World Congress is over, there’s lots of talk that 2008 will be the year of location based services (see here, here or here). I googled a little bit on that – and what did I have to see? I learned that 2007 could turn out to be the year of LBS. […]
Filed under: GPS, J2ME, LBS, Location Based Services, Mobile Web, Mobilizing the Geospatial Web, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments
YouTube Mobile: I’m a Fan!
Some people asked me already how I would spend all that spare time I have now that my thesis is finished. Well, THANKS for asking. DESPITE THE FACT that I’ll be back in a fulltime job from this friday onwards AND my son is (finally) getting his teeth – which should be more than enough […]
Filed under: J2ME, Java, JavaME, Mobile, Web 2.0, YouTube, YouTube Mobile | Leave a Comment
Vienna 360
Stumbled across this only recently: 360 cities mashes up Google Maps with 360 degrees panoramic images from various cities (including Vienna), using Quicktime VR. Hmmm… I’m ALMOST tempted to say ‘I could’ve done that myself!’, but ok – I do have to admit their version looks slightly better than the hack I did some weeks […]
Filed under: CleVR, Geek, Geography, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Street View, Vienna, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
Reporting Back
Feels like ages since I wrote my last blog post… The times were quite busy lately as I have FINALLY started to dedicate all my efforts into finishing my thesis. Basically, the thesis takes all the work I’ve done over the last four years, putting it into a more general perspective and deriving a set […]
Filed under: LBS, Location, Maphacking, Point to Discover, Research, Thesis, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments
DIY Street View
When I recently scouted for suitable test locations for our compass/tilt-enabled mobile app prototype, I thought it would be nice to have some sort of Google Street View-like panoramas of our potential test areas – so I could better discuss them with colleagues and roughly estimate some basic geometry paramters for each location (like e.g. […]
Filed under: CleVR, Geek, Google, Google Maps, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, p2d, Point to Discover, Street View, Web, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments
If you’re a developer who gets to play around with mobile gadgets and high-end smartphones a lot (or, well, frequently enough at least – like myself) it’s easy to get excited over the stuff you can do with those things nowadays: realtime 3D graphics, integrated GPS, animated SVG user interfaces, Flash, you name it. Despite […]
Filed under: Development, FON, FONFinder, Geek, Geospatial Web, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mashups, Phone, SMS, Technology, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
CEO on Local Web Applications
Couldn’t agree more with this post by C. Enrique Ortiz ‘The Future of Web Applications is Local‘ (no, not in the location-based/local-search kind-of sense – though I personally believe that the future of mobile Web apps is local in that sense as well 😀 – but in the running-locally/offline kind-of sense recently made possible on […]
Filed under: Development, Geek, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment
Found via mobileajax.de: the ExpertOn Group’s 10 trends in mobile business. The text is German, sorry (at least my browser was automatically directed to a german version; but you can always try the Google translation for some fun). Noteworthy: Trend 1: Social Mobile Networks (ahm.. should probably be ‘Mobile Social Networks’; or will mobile networks […]
Filed under: Business, LBS, Location, Marketing, Mashups, Mobile, Mobile Social Networks, Phone, Second Life, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
I’ll be speaking at the WWW2007 conference in Banff, Canada next week, presenting some of our work from the Point to Discover project. It’s in the Pervasive Web and Mobility session on Thursday. So check by and say hi if you happen to be there!
Filed under: Development, Geek, Geography, Geospatial Web, GPS, LBS, Location, Maphacking, Mobile, p2d, Point to Discover, Research, Technology, Web, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
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
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