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Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting

As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic upgrades. But a new, subtle update [...]

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Mon, March 8 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