Talking About A Sense Of Place
Backlink: http://www.vicchi.org/2011/02/10/talking-about-a-sense-of-place/
Showing posts with label place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label place. Show all posts
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Talking About A Sense Of Place
As a precursor to last week’s mashup* Digital Trends event, I chatted to Paul Squires of Imperica about my location trends in more detail than the mashup* format would have allowed for. The write-up from that interview is now up on Imperica’s web site and, thanks to them adopting a Creative Commons license, I’m able to reproduce it here.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Where is the most checked in place in the world?
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Where is the most checked in place in the world?
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Facebook Named "Top Place to Work"
It's not just IPO riches that is drawing engineers and other employees to Facebook, the all-conquering social network. The company has topped the "top places to work" ranking by Glassdoor.com, a careers site, this year, reports GigaOm.
Mark Zuckerberg got an exceptionally high approval status from his employees at 96%, beaten only by Steve Jobs at 97%. Facebook was graded 4.6 out of 5 on a host of metrics like: work/life balance, career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, fairness and respect, employee morale, recognition and feedback, and senior leadership.
On question-and-answer site Quora, ex-Google and Facebook engineer David Braginsky described the culture at Facebook as more "cozy" and casual than Google, and where employees can have a bigger impact. This last point is a big part of Facebook's appeal to engineers and a point Mark Zuckerberg makes endlessly in public. Facebook has the highest ratio of employees-to-users of any tech company, he says, and so workers there can, at least the theory goes, have more impact on the world there than at a startup (less employees, but less users) or at a bigger company like Google (more users, but also more employees).
Now Check Out: 10 Awesome Uses Of The New Facebook Profiles Page
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Facebook Named "Top Place to Work"
Thursday, December 9, 2010
THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google Slides To Third Place In Ad Sales In China (GOOG)
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GOOG Trading Sideways With Tech
Stocks are mixed as the market vacillates on the drop in jobless claims. Shares of GOOG are trading sideways with NASDAQ. Upcoming catalysts include continued Android growth; regaining momentum in China; adoption of and media partnerships for Google TV; and progress in other newer initiatives (location-based services and mapping, gaming, social, etc.). The stock trades at approximately 15x Enterprise Value / EBIT, inexpensive relative to historical trading levels and the broader Internet group.
Google Gunning For Android On Nokia Phones Says Andy Rubin (ComputerWorld)
Andy Rubin, vice president of Google's mobile platforms, said that he's hopeful that Nokia, the global mobile phone leader, will decide to adopt the Android platform. Analysts have expressed continuing concerns about Nokia's abysmal smartphone performance in the U.S., and are hoping that the company's recently appointed top leadership can change the downward trend. That would be a huge win for Google.
Google Dominates Mobile Search According To IDC (All Things Digital)
The mobile advertising market is ballooning, as is Google’s share of it. Of the $877 million spent on mobile advertising in the United States this year, 59% of it went to Google, according to IDC. Meanwhile, Apple claimed just 8.4% share, Yahoo 5.6% and Microsoft 4.3%. Clearly, Google rules the mobile ad market in the States in much the same way it dominates search. The mobile ad market, as defined by IDC, includes both search and display ads. The advertising business of some of the companies figuring in IDC’s report don’t extend to mobile search.
Alibaba Now Second In China Online Ad Sales, Pushing Google To Third (Bloomberg)
Google, which shut its search engine service in China this year after a censorship dispute with regulators, slipped to third place behind Alibaba in online advertising sales in the world’s biggest Internet market, according to Analysys International research firm. Alibaba accounted for 9.3% of China’s online ad sales in the third-quarter, rising from 7.8% in the prior quarter. That ranks the company behind only Baidu, after Google’s market share fell to 8.9% from 10.8%.
Money Manager Can't Believe How Inexpensive Google Is (Forbes)
Kenneth Hackel, founder and president of CT Capital, believes Google (one of his buy list stocks), is inexpensive. Google has and continues to be able to generate massive amounts of free cash flow both from revenue growth (new products and services), acquisitions, and improvements to operations. Contrary to his take on IBM.
Google Crying Foul Play In Microsoft's USDA Win (Reuters)
Google didn't get the chance to formally compete for the largest federal government "cloud computing" deal yet struck, according to the search giant. Microsoft announced that the company had won the USDA contract. This adds to concerns that government agencies are unfairly favoring rival Microsoft. How the times have changed. Last decade Microsoft couldn't get away from anti-trust scrutiny.
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See Also:
- THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google Instant And Mobile Gains Have Bulls Eyeing $730 Price Target
- THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Wall Street Bullish On Potential Groupon Acquisition
- THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: The Bears Are Out! Google TV Flop, Antitrust And Employee Retention At The Forefront
THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google Slides To Third Place In Ad Sales In China (GOOG)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Geotoko pulls your business’ location deals into one place [TNW Canada] (The Next Web)
If you’re a business that wants to capitalize on Facebook Places, Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp and all the other location based services you face two big challenges: claiming your locations on multiple services and managing the deals offered on multiple services. Geotoko saw this problem and has hit it head on with their service: Geotoko—Geotoko is [...] [ Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL...
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Geotoko pulls your business’ location deals into one place [TNW Canada] (The Next Web)
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Renaming Place Names in Oregon
If you're at all interested in the process of changing pejorative place names to something more acceptable to the present day -- the sort of thing covered by Mark Monmonier's From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow -- then you'll be interested in this story from the Medford Mail Tribune: The...
Renaming Place Names in Oregon
Backlink: http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2010/11/renaming_place.php
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Location vs. Place vs. POI
With Nokia, Google, Facebook and a whole host of other players recognising the inherent value in the concept of Places and Points Of Interest (POIs), it’s good to see that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body of the Web, is getting involved. On the 30th. September 2010, the W3C Points Of Interest Working Group (POIWG) was launched with a “mission to develop technical specifications for representation of POI information on the Web”. I should pause to make a brief disclaimer here; I’m sitting on the POIWG as part of my day job with Ovi Places at Nokia.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Esri pushes GeoMedicine, shares My Place History and goes mobile on iOS
I received a cool tip off from the good folks at Esri who’ve enlightened me a little not only on a great effort called “GeoMedicine” (FYI, the topic of medical geography was a favorite of mine back in my U Vic days when I was studying my fave classes on medical geography under the late [...]
Post originale: http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=8027
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Google Lat Long Blog: Business Photos from Google are now on Place pages
Six months ago, we announced the pilot of a project to take photos of business interiors. Through this program, business owners located in the U.S., Australia and Japan could invite our photographers into their establishments to take high-quality images of their businesses. Excitement from interested business owners grew quickly, and we’ve since taken photos of businesses in about 30 cities.
Post originale: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/SbSV/~3/ddH8Nny1wg8/business-photos-from-google-are-now-on.html
Saturday, October 16, 2010
TripTrace: A Place Book For Where You’ve Been And Where You’re Going
Back in August, we got word that a startup called PlaceBook was being bullied by Facebook into changing their name. Obviously, a lot of companies are trying to ride on the coattails of Facebook now given the social network's massive success, but in the case of PlaceBook, their name really just perfectly describes their service — more on that in a second. Still, Facebook lawyered up and PlaceBook founder Michael Rubin had to make a decision: fight or survive. He chose the latter.
PlaceBook is now known as TripTrace. Still in private beta, it's a service that allows you to note places around the world you've been to. And places you'd like to go to in the future. All of this is done in two books (dare I call them "Place Books"?): your Atlas (places you've been), and your Travel (places you want to go). There's a heavy emphasis on maps in these books, and all of your places are marked by pins (red for where you've been, blue for where you're going).
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