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Showing posts with label other. Show all posts

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Email Reverse Lookup - Trace Unknown Gmail And Other Email Addresses And Get Name And Location

Email Reverse Lookup - Trace Unknown Gmail And Other Email Addresses And Get Name And LocationThe beauty of technology is such human beings from any part of the earth can really trace a person to where he or she lives through his/her e-letter domicil

Email Reverse Lookup - Trace Unknown Gmail And Other Email Addresses And Get Name And Location


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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Social Media: Foursquare and other location-sharing services (San Diego Union)

Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places and other such services are becoming popular due to the spread of GPS-enabled smart phones. How are businesses using these services?

Source : San Diego Union

Explore : Business, Foursquare, GPS, Social Network



Post originale: http://wik.io/info/US/227125214

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Stuck in Traffic? Tell Other Drivers How You Feel

In an effort to make traffic maps more social, Yandex added an ability to append real time messages directly on to the mobile traffic map. So if you are stuck in traffic with nothing to do you can at least share your frustration with other drivers.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

As LimeWire Shuts Its Doors, Other P2P Clients See a Surge in Usage

limewire_logo.jpgLess than a week since LimeWire was ordered to shut down its operations, almost all other major file-sharing applications are reporting a massive increase in downloads, arguably from those displaced LimeWire users.

A New York district judge last Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order, demanding that LimeWire immediately close its doors. And while LimeWire has said it has plans to institute a redesigned service, based on legal and licensed music subscriptions, it seems like many of the site's users may have gone elsewhere for their torrents, rather than waiting for a revised version of what was once the most popular file-sharing app.

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TorrentFreak reports that it has spoken with a number of developers from P2P services, all of whom have seen a "huge boost in download numbers following Tuesday's verdict." No developers were willing to go on the record and give TorrentFreak the raw data - for fear, no doubt, of incurring the same wrath of the courts that LimeWire has received.

The exception is BearShare. Much like LimeWire, BearShare was once a Gnutella-based application. But in May 2006, BearShare was ordered to pay $30 million in settlement with the RIAA. Following that decision, BearShare altered its offerings via the Gnutella framework, limiting file-sharing. And its current iteration is, as the site proclaims "100% legal."

Despite these restrictions, BearShare has seen a 780% increase in US downloads since Tuesday. And it reports its daily US downloads went up from 8000 to 62,400. The company does not say, however, whether or not these new sers are actually paying for their downloads. (That is, I believe, what the RIAA believes will save all those poor suffering record labels.)

Even though the LimeWire alternatives have seen an influx of traffic over the past week, the fallout from last week's decision - and the still-to-come decision regarding the dollar figure attached to the judgement - remains to be seen as to how it will impact file-sharing services and users.

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Discuss





Post originale: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/NuPAhBno4oo/as_limeware_shuts_its_doors_other_p2p_clients_see.php

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Is Yelp's new check-in feature being monitored for "cheaters" in a similar way as other location-based apps?

Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.

Jim Barcelona, Loves to Write Beautiful and Scalable Code


First off, I admire Yelp and think they have a great product for helping find great places in my area.



Also, I really think the whole authenticity in geolocation and what folks try to do to game geolocation is really interesting, worth studying, and something that can help lots of folks if solved in a clean way.



To answer the question: No, they are not. The code is very different from FourSquare's or Gowalla's. It is different in such a way that it is possible to have joined Yelp on March 2010 and have 2022 Dukedoms.�



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Let's assume that it takes about 3 check-ins to get a dukedom which is really generous. This guy has checked into places in LA 6066 times since March.



That's about 28 check-ins a day. I used to do beer sales. So some days I had a route of about 20 venues a day, and that's assuming I'm putting in a long 16 hour day. With LA traffic, it's pretty impossible to hit 28 places on that sort of a route. I'm calling foul here, and would like to see my hunch verified, b/c I can't really prove anything yet other than it doesn't match my experience as a former beer sales guy.



Any insight from folks at Yelp on this?



See question on Quora


Post originale: http://www.quora.com/Is-Yelp-s-new-check-in-feature-being-monitored-for-cheaters-in-a-similar-way-as-other-location-based-apps