Location based services: a ‘really big thing’?
The advent of devices with integrated GPS such as the last version of the Apple IPhone, could represent an important trend, and contribute to make the Web 4.0 (the ubiquitous web) a reality.
Look at the following Video showing Steve Jobs demonstrating an application making use of GPS.
At the Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone traveling in a car going down San Francisco’s famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Do we need LBS so badly?
Here I can possibly present one opinion from the consumer/end-user perspective. Before I really go to the details. I may review one simple concept and one theory here, which are “Home Range Concept” and “Traffic Pattern Theory”.
Home Range Concept. It is a concept that can be traced back to a publication in 1943 by W. H. Burt, who constructed maps delineating the spatial extent or outside boundary of an animal’s movement during the course of its everyday activities.
Traffic Pattern Theory. A people’s daily activity pattern is pretty regular, which comprises of several major events, such as school, work, home, shopping.
What happened here is if you are looking a person, saying a full-time employed, 45 years, car, 3-person-household, one child, the regular activity route is so limited. This means ….
Also see
http://to.swang.googlepages.com/
http://to.swang.googlepages.com/lbs
June 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Here’s a nice example of LBS used for a game:
June 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDau3rfnXds