Posted on 23 August 2010
How to get best web news, trends and insightful analysis in Nigeria
To get the best coverage, on what is happening in the Nigerian web space, keep it locked down on webtrendsng.com. News, analysis, interviews and tips.
You should follow us on twitter @webtrendsng @possicon, Fan us on Facebook or subscribe to our news alert using the box to the right side of this page.
Our focus is to bring sense out of the noise in the web space, get insight from industry players and consumers, insightful analysis of events and innovations on how it affect you and your business.
Great post! I've been using a Google product called Latitude for quite a while now. With the recent Google Maps for Mobile update, the application runs at startup (by default) and once you've signed on to Latitude, it will keep updating your profile with your current location (thanks to cell tower triangulation – although not so precise). In effect, Google has data on where I've been in the last three months or there about. What's even more interesting is the fact that there's an API http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/ making any application capable of reading your location history. So indeed, there isn't any privacy anymore. I strongly believe that Location Based Services are here to stay.
Google Latitude is a gr8 product was kinda ahead of its time. The problem with big firm is the quickness of their innovation. This i think didnt help the product reach critical mass. Also, the social game that Google lost is also a major thing holding it down. imagine Google had earlier acquired dodgeball from founder of now popular foursquare.the product was designed to do what foursquare is now doing. I think largely, startup culture still av a major role to play in helping growing company continue to in
http://m.yahoo.com/w/bp-messenger/chat/sendIm?c…
Great post! I've been using a Google product called Latitude for quite a while now. With the recent Google Maps for Mobile update, the application runs at startup (by default) and once you've signed on to Latitude, it will keep updating your profile with your current location (thanks to cell tower triangulation – although not so precise). In effect, Google has data on where I've been in the last three months or there about. What's even more interesting is the fact that there's an API http://code.google.com/apis/latitude/ making any application capable of reading your location history. So indeed, there isn't any privacy anymore. I strongly believe that Location Based Services are here to stay.
Google Latitude is a gr8 product was kinda ahead of its time. The problem with big firm is the quickness of their innovation. This i think didnt help the product reach critical mass. Also, the social game that Google lost is also a major thing holding it down. imagine Google had earlier acquired dodgeball from founder of now popular foursquare.the product was designed to do what foursquare is now doing. I think largely, startup culture still av a major role to play in helping growing company continue to in
http://m.yahoo.com/w/bp-messenger/chat/sendIm?c=zlkbtv4Cknb&r=1182465625&.ts=1282571397&.intl=us&.lang=en