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"The advent of constant internet connectivity and mobile communication have transformed the way that many businesses and organizations function. There has been a focus upon the technological aspects and opportunities. This book takes a look into the future at the human aspects of mobile technology in terms of the ways that people will work and communicate in the mobile marketplace."

"The Where 2.0 program navigated along the three tracks of mobile innovations, mapping for consumers, and local opportunities and models. Participants explored topics such as the map as an information ecology, the new meaning of mapping, government's role as a clearinghouse for data, open source mapping, local data, local search, augmented reality, location sharing, mobile cloud, game mechanics, and web vs. native apps."

"Are location-based mobile applications like Foursquare, Loopt and Gowalla just hype? That's the potential, at-a-glance takeaway from a new study released today by Forrester Research. "

"Doing Good 2.0 The Next-Generation Internet's impact on communication, media, mobile & civic engagement JD Lasica Socialbrite.org jd@socialbrite.org Tuesday, November 24, 2009 "

"Location-based social networks (LBSNs), such as foursquare and Brightkite, offer interactive marketers the promise of right-time, right-place marketing by connecting people and nearby points of sale with geo-targeted media. The market is quite nascent, with only a few million consumers using geo-location apps monthly. Marketers need to know what audiences can be reached with these services, which companies - if any - are ready for prime time, and whether LBSNs align with business objectives. Forrester recommends that bold, male-targeted marketers start testing but that most marketers should wait until they can get a bigger bang for their buck, when adoption rates increase and established players emerge from the fray. "

Information Collection, Visualization, & Interactive Mapping Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.

Odiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.