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Location-based apps shine among the 50 Android apps picked as finalists (slide show pdf).

Meanwhile, Verizon picks Limo and MobileCrunch show the differences between Limo and Android.

Talking Google, now Real Estate info on Google Maps.

Yahoo launches Internet Location Platform. Via APB, with Google’s Ed Parsons take on Yahoo’s WOEID (Where On Earth ID).

Where 2.0

John McKerrell blogged the conference and also a bit of WhereCamp 2008.

His coverage from Where includes a talk from Dan Catt about geotagged photos.

Dan’s blog: GeoBloggers covered also Yahoo’s WOEID, and his work with geotagging at Flickr including a slideshow of the Where presentation.

Where was also covered at APB and Radar.

Among the news Ublip, a tracking platform and Veriplace, a Location API with privacy concerns.

Dash API

Dash Opens its API, Via Programmable Web, Webware

Webware also put together a lazy list of Geo Sites.

Blackberry users with Garmin Mobile for life.

Butterfly GPS DIY project. Via Make

Boeing loses GPS contract for Lockheed Martin.

PC Mag covers Geotagging Gadgets.

Apple Patents Speculations by ArsTechnica, PhonesReview and IntoMobile.

Geotagging at Ovi’s upload site from Nokia which launches the first compass phone.

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Artist gives its whereabouts away. Via Mercury News

Geograffiti: Leave voice mail at some place, using the MyVoxApi. It extends the bulletin-board idea from HereCast. Via Mashable, MobileCrunch.

Also from Mashable, Seero Widget for GPS-enabled video streaming.

deCarta getting another round of cash.

MediaScrape: News on the Map.

Ohararp SMD GPS Video Tutorial on Instructables.

LinuxJournal published a tip from Peter Verthez about running Garmin’s MapSource under Wine on Linux.

One more piece in the Dash puzzle: Where 2 Get, route planning provider.

Tags: GPS & Art, GeoTagging, Mashups by gpsguy
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Om thinks that the GPS party is over with Sirf announcing layoff’s, not so fast I would say agreeing with a comment that points out that the Mobile TV business it at fault.

Do you care for it? Kids do, prob. But I agree that watch a movie while waiting for the subway is pretty handy.

Fat News Tuesday

Search for GeoNews with MetaCarta. Via Apb.

Local Search on Nokia’s with Buzzd, via Mobile Crunch.

Microsoft Tellme developing for the iPhone. Via Fortune.

Microsoft Webcast on SQL Server 2008 Spatial Features.

IBM announcing Lotus Expeditor, a tool for development of mobile mashups. Via CNet.

Across the Blue

If you want to have a taste of phones available in U.K., check issue #70 of PDA Essentials (and its GPS Advisor supplement). The CD includes GPS software for the PPC (and Symbian, Palm) from most of the packages covered here plus free GPS Utilities from Efficasoft.

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From The Island: quoting the Economist, the idea will happen by

“linking the virtual communities [..] with the real world”

In a recent issue it talks about Bluetooth tagging, if you are 20 meters or closer you are it. Meanwhile, BBC reviews Social Networks.

In U.S. TeleNav launches a mobile app for Facebook. And TeleAtlas LBS Innovators divulge its finalists: JotYou, SmartAgent and Socialight.

Finally, if you didn’t get it yet read again: users (will) make the content in the future of mapping.

Talking maps, the old brand Fugawi tries new waters with Fugawi Touratel, a Where-based Widget. Via InformationWeek.

Nokia also makes widgets available for its phones, but no LBS support yet.

And Farcast offers a free mobile blogging service which takes GPS coordinates of photos, text and videos. Via IntoMobile.

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One of the ways LBS can happen is by helping “social networks” as shown this year at CTIA [CNet articles] exemplified by Rummble, Whrll, Utterz, Socialight in UK and Trutap.

You might have heard of the Google API for Social Networks (which includes GeoRSS location info as pointed out by ProgrammableWeb) despite better and more mature ideas being around.

And I remember reading somehere a suggestion that the move shows that Google could be afraid of Facebook.

SirfStudio

Talking about development stacks, check SirfStudio and SirfSandbox: a collection of libraries and tools for Java and C++ development of GPS-based applications.

That if you want to develop and deploy LBS applications to be used this year.

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Garmin ups the hand, TomTom covers it and TeleAtlas accepts the bid.

Darpa driverless cars have another round (at EETimes, GPSWorld),

Gizmondo shows Dash mashups, your upcoming mobile tv taking shape in a new gadgetized distraction.

EETimes shows what is the Nokia N95 made of including its Texas’ NaviLink GPS5300 chipset. True one then, with Assisted-GPS software based support.

At CTIA 2007 Qualcomm announced Gobi “a global mobile Internet hardware and software combination for notebooks […] with embedded GPS capabilities”.

Tags: Maps, Mashups, Nokia by gpsguy
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