http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/ Rocky Agrawal's blog on search, wireless, maps and Web 2.0 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-19142 Rocky wuz here « reDesign Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:45 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-19142 [...] written before about WHERE, a location service platform that has offered GPS-based location status updates for Twitter using a downloadable application. [...] [...] written before about WHERE, a location service platform that has offered GPS-based location status updates for Twitter using a downloadable application. [...]

]]> http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-12585 Markus Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:39:00 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-12585 I'd like to respond to Kevin's post... US operators block access to the phone's location information (a few phones with full GPS excluded). You have to get certified to get access which is a long and expensive process. This is probably why most LBS application are subscription based. WHERE is certified. "We are friends with the carriers, so you don't have to". WHERE is built around a client-server model. That is, any widget is already server-side. With every request the location gets passed... just as you describe. You call it "the superior way", I take that as a compliment. ;) I’d like to respond to Kevin’s post…
US operators block access to the phone’s location information (a few phones with full GPS excluded). You have to get certified to get access which is a long and expensive process. This is probably why most LBS application are subscription based. WHERE is certified. “We are friends with the carriers, so you don’t have to”.
WHERE is built around a client-server model. That is, any widget is already server-side. With every request the location gets passed… just as you describe. You call it “the superior way”, I take that as a compliment.

]]> http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-12536 WHERE gets personal with easy-to-create custom widgets « reDesign Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:06:15 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-12536 [...] 5th, 2007 I’ve written before about the WHERE platform, a location-based service platform that allows developers to create custom location applications. [...] [...] 5th, 2007 I’ve written before about the WHERE platform, a location-based service platform that allows developers to create custom location applications. [...]

]]> http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-12209 Twittering up some dosas « reDesign Mon, 28 May 2007 15:18:41 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-12209 [...] food also seems like a great application for location services like WHERE. Take a map like this street food map of New York from Platial and make it accessible from cell [...] [...] food also seems like a great application for location services like WHERE. Take a map like this street food map of New York from Platial and make it accessible from cell [...]

]]> http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-10123 Kevin Kiley Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:49:56 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-10123 Providing toolkits to access Location Based Information on a Mobile Device is fine... but it's still a walled garden and the APIs can only be used inside stand-alone applications that must be purchased/downloaded/installed. For alomst a year now it has been possible to simply add any LBS information you want ( Current GPS included ) to any request being made to any WEB SERVER. This means the LBS "applications" can be server-side, open, and global. This is the superior way to access/use Location Based Services from a Mobile Device. No "Walled Garden" applications required. Check out http://www.5o9.net/ Providing toolkits to access Location Based Information on a Mobile Device is fine… but it’s still a walled garden and the APIs can only be used inside stand-alone applications that must be purchased/downloaded/installed. For alomst a year now it has been possible to simply add any LBS information you want ( Current GPS included ) to any request being made to any WEB SERVER. This means the LBS “applications” can be server-side, open, and global.
This is the superior way to access/use Location Based Services from a Mobile Device. No “Walled Garden” applications required.
Check out
http://www.5o9.net/

]]> http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-10115 The world's a twitter about Twitter « reDesign Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:22:34 +0000 http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/03/17/where-in-the-world-am-i/#comment-10115 [...] value increased greatly with the Twitter WHERE widget. (See my post on WHERE.) With WHERE, I can quickly and easily answer not only what I’m doing right now, but where [...] [...] value increased greatly with the Twitter WHERE widget. (See my post on WHERE.) With WHERE, I can quickly and easily answer not only what I’m doing right now, but where [...]

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