Buddy Stalker Vs. Dodgeball

There is also Plazes and AreYouHere and Jaiku
Do you know of other similar services?

Related:
Fabien Girardin: Mobile LBS Market and Nicolas Nova's: Location-based applications, failures and a second wave of applications to be expected.
In this regard it's interesting that Google also thinks that Google Maps failed (see here).

Have you heard about the Nokia 95. It's the first time I see a normal consumer camera phone which comes with integrated A-GPS. Looks a bit like Jon Udell's dream came through.

PS: Interestingly in Seth Godin's speech at Google, the whole mapping stuff is not that much of a purple cow - on the contrary.

GrenzGang



Well, I guess we all wait for phones with integrated A-GPS, so that we can start easy gps moblogging. I am not convinced though that we absolutely need a Javaclient for this.

MMS Blogging works and is easy to install on all MMS-enabled phones, whereas the rollout of Java-clients is always taking more time. If we have other benefits with such a client, it naturally can be worthwhile.

via Mobinauten

Geo Tracing

GeoTracing is a software platform for creating multimedial geo-applications. These applications have in common that they allow you to tell your multimedial story about your movement through the landscape, whether on foot, skates, by bike or other means. View for example the TraceLand application.

See also:
GeoTracing Whitepaper

Where are we with SUPL?


PS:
Control Plane = too expensive and "pushy"

Uses the Circuit Switched network (TCH) for assistance data and communication
Requires updates to several network elements to handle all of the standard protocols
Supports legacy terminals (excepting AGPS)
Supports location of emergency calls

User Plane = the commercially viable pull option

Uses the Packet Switched network (TCP/IP) capability to bypass the Switched Circuit infrastructure
Modification of network not required
Cannot locate legacy terminals
Does not support location of emergency calls

See
Dueling Architectures: User Plane, Control Plane (PDF)

Google Maps Mobile.
Here is the mobile link: www.google.de/gmm.

I didn't try it out yet for Switzerland.

Place-Its: A Study of Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones by Timothy Sohn, Kevin A. Li1, Gunny Lee, Ian Smith, James Scott, and William G. Griswold, Ubicomp 2005.

An interesting excerpt, in regard to this.

Our study revealed unexpected uses of location-aware reminders. We found that Place-It notes were often used for creating motivational reminders to perform activities that would vary in priority over time. This is similar to using post-it notes in highly visible areas for motivation. The locations for motivational reminders were often set at frequently visited places, such as ‘home’. We also found that a majority of the uses for Place-Its involved communicating with people through a variety of media (e.g. email, phone). Communication is typically not tied to specific locations, implying that location is being used as a cue for other kinds of situational context.

See also: Post about Geominder


Via Nicolas Nova

Pointing Based Solutions for Mobile Phones

With Mapion Local Search, users can now walk down the street anywhere in Japan and point at over 700,000 objects such as buildings, shops, restaurants, banks, historical sites and instantly retrieve information on what they are looking at or find what they are looking for just by pointing their phone. Just like one uses a mouse to click on an object on a computer screen and retrieve information, now users can Click on the Real World® using their mobile phone.

Mapion Local Search combines Mapion’s POI (Point of Interest) information on objects all over Japan (including map data) with GeoVector’s pointing based technology and spatial search engine to give Japanese users the world’s first personal local search. According to Takehiko Murata, President of CyberMap Japan “Mapion Japan is always searching for pioneering technologies to improve our user experience and incorporating GeoVector’s technology allows us to give users an experience available nowhere else in the world and an advantage over our competitors.”

See some demos here.

Via Sascha Schmidt

Location Based Marketing - Could it Really Work?
Part One

Part 1 identified that the key to success is the type of messages that marketers plan to send in the channel. It’s key to getting potential users to sign up in the first place (opt in), stopping them from opting out on an ongoing basis and it’s key if the messages are going to work and that recipients will respond to them.

Part Two

In Part 2, we looked at some of the physical characteristics of LBM messages, that are essential to success, such as they should be free, not interrupt the mobile user and that they should quietly disappear when they have stopped being relevant.

Part Three

In this final part, I’m going to look at the content of the advertising itself - saving the most important discussion to last.

Interesting blog: Location-Based Mobile Media: Maps, Games and Stories

The last post is about Google + Local + Mobile, already blogged at Smoothplanet.

See also:
mobile, locative and pervasive technology

Via this blogject and objects that blog