Twitter's geotagging powers could transform the lifecasting service into something extremely powerful. And the company's just taken the first steps to making this happen through its own Web page: It's turned on Tweet mapping. ...READ»
I love the geotag concept--marking photos/Tweets and such with their Earth coordinates--and I think we'll all be doing it more in the future, for many reasons. I'm just worried we shouldn't be doing it this month. Thanks to bad ...READ»
We already know Google wants to be everything for everyone in search. Now they're extending that goal into the real world, sticking physical tags on the windows of actual businesses from its online Favorite Places catalog. Should ...READ»
Foursquare's already a technology to keep your eye on if you're interested in geotagging, augmented reality, social gaming, and hyper-local ads, but it's just added a new attraction just in time for the Holidays: Charity, for New ...READ»
I got all excited about Twitter's geotagging feature before, and now it's getting a new spin that wraps in another neat technology: Augmented reality. Enter Twitter 360, an AR iPhone App that puts Tweets in a global navigational ...READ»
Augmented Reality may well be the killer app for GPS and compass-empowered smartphones, but the tech has a significant drawback--it requires accurate points of interest to make it useful. A new start-up, L.A.-based unit called ...READ»
Computer engineers have come up with a way to use smartphones' microphones, cameras, and accelerometers, to identify a person's location in the end all and be all of indoor mazes: the shopping mall.READ»
Twitter's about to get a fascinating new tool in its social communications toolbox courtesy of Jajah: Phone calling. It's a VOIP solution that will work for anyone with a Twitter account. Does this signal a future as an extensive ...READ»
Nokia's moving fast to catch up with current tech memes: As well as leaping into the smartbook and netbook fray, it's also getting into social net "lifecasting" thanks to a new Ovi app that connects to Facebook.
That all sounds ...READ»
We've written about Twitter's upcoming Tweet geotagging a couple of times, but with news on how excited it's got Twitter developers, maybe it's time to wonder: Is geotagging Twitter's killer feature? Let's think about it.
Over at ...READ»
Twitter's about to unveil a new feature that taps into another developing social networking trick: Geolocation. The ability to pinpoint your location will happen automatically within the Tweet's code, and it has some big ...READ»
We've written about Layar, which brings Augmented Reality skills to your smartphone, before--but now the company announced it's taking the app global, with a whole new bunch of content. It's quite possibly the biggest AR event ...READ»
Augmented reality and smartphones are a techno match made in heaven, and the whole idea is about to take a fascinating turn thanks to some new software from Metaio: It'll let you metatag real-world objects.
Sounds confusing? It ...READ»
Eye-Fi's wireless SD cards already simplify the task of sending pics from a digital camera to your hard drive, and now it's got a version that also auto-geotags the photos--and it's especially aimed at Mac users.
That's thanks to ...READ»
Google's Street View app, alongside Google Earth, has ever-so-slightly changed the world--buying a house may never be the same again, for one thing, nor will smartphone-based navigation. And that's probably why another tech giant ...READ»
