Showing posts with label hyper-local. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hyper-local. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2010

New iPhone App Helps Locate Free, Hyper-Local Fruit | Hyperlocally

Hyper-Local - Find Fruit, the mobile companion to NeighborhoodFruit.com, would help me locate fruit trees on public land on the go! Users simply plug in the current location (street address) into their iPhone to locate the closest fruit trees. Read more about Hyper-Local here>>>

Monday, January 11, 2010

Hyper-local by Smart Data Collective | Hyperlocally

Hyper-Local - Several trends, I think, will start impacting hyper-local this year, mobile, context aware apps (most notably location awareness), and the social web. Yelp leverages social web of course and does have a mobile app that's location aware already. I wonder though, will apps like FourSquare, with its ability to serve up location specific offers and specials, start to erode some of Yelp's local clout? Read more about Hyper-Local here

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Monday, January 4, 2010

HyperLocal – a Framework

Hyperlocal Blog - Having considered several “core” dimensions of HyperLocal services, next up is key enabling technologies that many of the platforms mentioned above will build upon. As mentioned above, my initial starting list is:

1. Identity and Personalization
2. Social Media/Social Web
3. Real-time Web
4. Geolocation
5. Search
6. Mobile
7. Machine Learning
8. Semantic Web

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