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Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website

When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time.
While Twitter’s geolocation feature has been live through its API since last November, there was no [...]

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Tue, March 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Speaking Of Creepy Location Features: Google’s Opt-Out Latitude Alerts

The past couple of days have seen some brouhaha over location privacy issues. Please Rob Me brought up the potentially troubling issue of tweeting out your location updates (and Foursquare responded). But actually, Google is doing something that’s perhaps even creepier.
While their Google Location Alerts feature is not new (it started beta testing in November [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments