Rants And Ramblings About Mobile Technology
Anders Borg writing about the fun and crazy world of mobile and Internet service technologies.
You can also read the blog via Twitter or your phone via wap.abiro.com. See the left menu for more news.
Comments on blog entries are moderated, but I'm rather liberal as long as it's not blatant advertising.
For general comments, advertising and contribution queries, please use the feedback form.
Friday, July 06, 2007
GPS round-up
Using GPS for location based content and tours is about GPS and related services used to enhance the tourists' experience. They even call it GPS tours.
China flying high on GPS indicates that phones with GPS are still very expensive at $700. That's the same price as in USA and Europe, but the phones still find some customers (1.4M during 2006).
HortiBot: the autonomous, GPS-enabled weed eradicator is a bit too expensive for home owners, or farmers for that matter, at $71,000. You can get a pretty good tractor for that price.
"the crew hopes to ... reduce those charges when it (hopefully) goes commercial"
Localised Personalised Notes describes the notion of placing virtual notes in the geography by geotagging them, and when someone else visits the same place would see those notes. No obvious business case, and neither had the described Notificator from 193x. If digging/ranking is added to the notes it might suddenly be a way to recommend (or not) restaurants, music venues etc.
GPS enabled devices now allow mobile social networking is about new services that add location to normal social network features. Are we running out of domain names, considering the names of the services: Bliin, Trackut, and kakiloc? Yikes!
China flying high on GPS indicates that phones with GPS are still very expensive at $700. That's the same price as in USA and Europe, but the phones still find some customers (1.4M during 2006).
HortiBot: the autonomous, GPS-enabled weed eradicator is a bit too expensive for home owners, or farmers for that matter, at $71,000. You can get a pretty good tractor for that price.
"the crew hopes to ... reduce those charges when it (hopefully) goes commercial"
Localised Personalised Notes describes the notion of placing virtual notes in the geography by geotagging them, and when someone else visits the same place would see those notes. No obvious business case, and neither had the described Notificator from 193x. If digging/ranking is added to the notes it might suddenly be a way to recommend (or not) restaurants, music venues etc.
GPS enabled devices now allow mobile social networking is about new services that add location to normal social network features. Are we running out of domain names, considering the names of the services: Bliin, Trackut, and kakiloc? Yikes!
