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• [Review] Lapham’s Quarterly: Travel (and the Demysitifcation Thereof)

  
  El Oso — Authority: 499
  The farther one goes the less one knows. Lao-Tzu, 550 BC The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. St. Augustine, c. 390 Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli, 1832 In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because ...
  13 hours ago

• I’m A Local

  
  Exclamation — Authority: 98
  I know it’s hard to remember this time before the Internet. Even before chat-rooms – YES, even before “You’ve Got Mail.” Before the socialized Internet, your community was just your physical social environment: Your mailman, your grocer, friends, family, roommates and the physical places where you would see ...
  1 day ago

• Augmented reality for Hursley

  
  dale lane — Authority: 410
  One of the themes at openMIC this week was augmented reality, and a topic that came up a couple of times was Layar . Layar is a mobile app for Android and iPhone that lets you display location-based information overlaid on a real-time camera view. For example, the screen normally shows a viewfinder-like view ...
  4 days ago

• Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

  
  socialized blog — Authority: 509
  Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Basically, a location-based application allows you to check in almost anywhere on the planet and broadcast ...
  5 days ago

• Loopt Adds Local Events, Listings, Coupons To iPhone App

  
  Silicon Alley Insider — Authority: 156
  When Loopt launched in 2006 it was ahead of a curve that is just starting to be recognized: Location. Now, with services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, and even Twitter fueling the location-based services frenzy, Loopt realized that it needed to shift its strategy a bit. Enter Pulse, a new ... Continue ...
  6 days ago

• Stalqer: A Location Sharing App for Real Friends

  
  louisgray.com — Authority: 616
  I have always felt my life was not interesting enough to broadcast every small update. Thats a major reason why I was initially slow to embrace Twitter, and why, thus far, I have shunned application broadcasting services like BrightKite and the extremely popular at the moment Foursquare . But a new application, set ...
  1 week ago

• Private, self-hosted alternative to Brightkite?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  Looking for a self-hosted, private alternative to Brightkite for sharing family stuff. My wife and I (mis)-use Brightkite as a two-person, location-aware version of Twitter . All our posts are private (we two are one anothers only "friends"), and its turned out to be a really handy way to let each other know ...
  1 week ago

• Thoughts on Brightkite 2.0

  
  Giddy Blog | Derek Steen — Authority: 108
  We all witnessed Brightkite’s 2.0 update at the end of September. The site was down for at least a day or so, and some users weren’t happy. Most users understood the scale of the update and were patient.Once the site came back up it was only up for a few hours before they took it [...]
  1 week ago

• Layar Reality Browser

  
  Android Tapp — Authority: 415
  The Layar Reality Browser displays real time digital information on top of reality in the camera screen of the mobile phone. While looking through the phone’s camera lens, a user can see houses for sale, popular bars and shops, tourist information of the area, play a live game, etcetera. Price: Free ...
  1 week ago

• Brightkite 2.0 For The iPhone Now On The App Store

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 899
  Brightkite was one of the early players in the location-based social networking game, which is a space that is growing rapidly. Originally a TechStars startup, Brightkite was bought in April by Limbo and has been flying a bit under the radar as a fresh crop of location-based services have popped up including ...
  1 week ago

• Brightkite for iPhone updated to version 2.0

  
  iPhoneIndiaBlog.com — Authority: 511
  Brightkite is something like Twitter, a location-based social networking platform which integrates with services such as Twitter and Facebook. Brightkite [Free, App Store ]  was updated to V2.0 over the weekend bringing quite a few new features including a new user friendlily model, new privacy options, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foursquare Isn’t Competing With Brightkite

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 156
  I’ve been playing with Foursquare lately since they added Indianapolis to their list of cities. I was waiting on it to come to the city and now it’s here. I’m not sure it’s really what I expected at all. I’ve been using Brightkite for quite awhile and honestly I thought that Foursquare and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Location-Based Social Networking Sites To Find Friends Nearby

  
  ToMuse.com — Authority: 420
  These days our smart phones come GPS-enabled, helping us figure out which direction to head when we’re lost, and where the nearest post office is. Being location-aware can be a pretty social thing as well, considering all of our interactions have a time as well as a place. These two factors can have a great impact ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Free Social Media Icon Sets!

  
  Evohosting — Authority: 118
  If you’re looking for some new social media icons for your website, then you’ve come to the right place!  We found some great sets with icons for Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Vimeo, Reddit, and tons of other social networking sites!  Plus, these icons showcase some of the latest trends in web design, including wood, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kansas City KiteUp Nov 3rd : Burgers, Brews & Brightkite!

  
  (jeff)isageek.net — Authority: 478
  So I just heard the news that Kansas City will be having its 2nd Brightkite meetup known as a KiteUp and it will be Tuesday Nov 3rd at the Westport Flea Market!  Now the last event was awesome and I met some of the great people in our local  Brightkite community and this one from the sound of it should be off the ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Finally Understand The Power Of Mobile Social Applications

  
  Regular Geek — Authority: 580
  I have mentioned on this blog that I was not a fan of the mobile location network applications like BrightKite , FourSquare, Gowalla and others. My thinking was that posting my location to various services had no purpose. The highly connected early adopters love these applications because they never know who may ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brightkite Augmented Reality comes to your iPhone!

  
  Brightkite Blog — Authority: 449
  Two months ago we stepped through the looking glass with our first foray in Augmented Reality with the Layar app for Android. All you envious iPhone 3GS users can now join your Android friends because the Brightkite Layar is now available for iPhone ! Here is how you get it: Download the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Downside of Geolocation in Social Media

  
  Professional Blog Service — Authority: 466
  I was talking with an attorney who specializes in social media issues. She made a very interesting point about some of the downsides of different gelocation social media tools, such as Google Latitude or Brightkite . I recently joined Google Latitude, a tool that will find your location and throw it up for all ...
  4 weeks ago

• KW 41

  
  LostFocus — Authority: 125
  Was ist diese Woche eigentlich alles so passiert? Beim ZDF gab es Fisting-Attacken , Obama bekommt den Nobelpreis , Marge Simpson ist auf dem nächsten Playboy-Cover , die Amerikaner beschießen den Mond und man kann das Kindle jetzt auch hierzulande bekommen. Und ich erfreute mich an Canabalt und Regretsy ...
  4 weeks ago

• Get your beer on with FBAG!

  
  Brightkite Blog — Authority: 449
  We’re happy to announce Brightkite as an official social media partner for Flying Dog Brewery’s 2nd Annual FBAG Party ! For those of you unfamiliar with FBAG, that stands for “Flying Dog Brats & Gonzo” (these are a few of my favorite things!) which is kind of like a pre-party to the annual Great ...
  7 weeks ago

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