I was on my way to grab some lunch today when this guy caught my attention. He was handing out cards for New York Dolls (which claimed they had Best Lunch around City Hall), and I realized I had a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one proverbial stone: Lunch at NewYorkDolls, and a chance [...]

I hate listy blog posts, so the only time i resort to punchy point sorting is when i’m really stuck on the fence.  Yahoo’s Fire Eagle has been one of those mixed bag releases that i think has tons of potential, but also many reasons that the bird might burn….  the following is a glance [...]

Outside.in has taken another huge step down the path of location based innovation, bringing us one step closer to better connecting content with geo-context; introducing the GeoToolkit.  Launched yesterday, this beta program aims at helping content authors better pinpoint the geographic relevance of their work through a simple online toolset. The core of the [...]

Plazes posted some big news this morning,  announcing an agreement for their acquisition by Nokia .

Based in Berlin, Plazes started out strong in 2005 as an early LBS social networking concept. While European adoption was far greater than US audiences, the general spotlight on it’s value seems to have shifted over the last year to [...]

Thanks to Damian Spain’s recent photos of the Google StreetView car getting pulled over, we’ve all had a good laugh at some poor driver’s expense. But, taking a closer look at the sensor array mounted on the vehicle we also gain some new insight into the evolving immersive video capture method Google is using.

Notice the [...]

Social Networking for our Stuff? While that’s still a bit of a stretch,  a new protocol implementation hit the street today that could definitely make that concept a reality. C02 sensor in Barstow, meet cell-phone in Bangalore.
At long last, OpenSpime released their first developer library today along with the launch of their new Developer [...]

Nearing the one year anniversary of their momentous deal with Google, Immersive Media announced another noteworthy addition to their Board of Directors yesterday: Winston Guillory
Guillory is an Location Based Services (LBS) industry legend, having headed up sales at NAVTEQ, Intermec, and Weblink Wireless in recent years. This move shows a strong commitment by Immersive to continue the expansion of [...]