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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: Foursquare

28 percent Americans search for spatial information on their mobiles, 4 percent use location aware services, such as Gowalla or Foursquare – Pew Internet Research

Image by Joshua Kaufman via Flickr About 1/4 of Americans use some sort of mapping or location based information service via mobile. This includes mapping and location aware services alike. Only a small proportion, @ 4% of adults, use services such as…

Cree.py takes ubiquitous computing to a new level of surveillance

All your digital breadcrumbs in one place… A program aggregates all your location based information and plots it on a map. A new software tool created by Greek programmer Yiannis Kakavas goes much farther in the shock category. Called “Creepy,” Kakavas’ tool…