Comments on: The gold rush of location data http://neilbearse.com/2010/03/17/the-gold-rush-of-location-data/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil http://neilbearse.com/2010/03/17/the-gold-rush-of-location-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1225 Phil Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:09:00 +0000 http://neilbearse.com/?p=155#comment-1225 Google Buzz surely have been concern to people but now its much changed and your point of location based in Social Media, already taken care by twitter and other social media networks will be their too Google Buzz surely have been concern to people but now its much changed and your point of location based in Social Media, already taken care by twitter and other social media networks will be their too

]]> By: Tristan Cuschieri http://neilbearse.com/2010/03/17/the-gold-rush-of-location-data/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Tristan Cuschieri Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:44:46 +0000 http://neilbearse.com/?p=155#comment-45 As usual, your blog has made me look at this issue from a perspective I didn't have before. What's most interesting to me is the point about these services being unable to accurately derive our location when connected to mobile networks.<br><br>I've started to see this even with connections to "standard" ISPs, depending on the technology being used to serve the connection. Case in point: Bell's new Fibe service in Ontario.<br><br>Location services will often mistakenly see a Fibe customer in Toronto as connecting from Yellowknife, NT. So it makes perfect sense that social networks based on location would want their users to tell them where they are, instead of being forced to guess. As usual, your blog has made me look at this issue from a perspective I didn't have before. What's most interesting to me is the point about these services being unable to accurately derive our location when connected to mobile networks.

I've started to see this even with connections to “standard” ISPs, depending on the technology being used to serve the connection. Case in point: Bell's new Fibe service in Ontario.

Location services will often mistakenly see a Fibe customer in Toronto as connecting from Yellowknife, NT. So it makes perfect sense that social networks based on location would want their users to tell them where they are, instead of being forced to guess.

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