November 2011
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Taping into the Scene
Back in college, a friend of mine and I planned a trip to New York. We were really excited. Thumping clubs, table service, exclusive parties…we imagined a weekend where we’d hit the town hard and escape the sticky frat basements and tired crowd of Hanover. Once we got to our hotel room we opened up the computer and did the typical rookie search. We found suggested places to go, put on our best...
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Echo! Echo!
A week or so ago I got the opportunity to have a chat with echo echo’s Nick Bicanic. Looking to solve the problem of “where are you?” echoecho is a nifty tool that not only answers that question, but provides a platform to answer the inevitable follow up of “where should we go?” I asked Nick what he thought about the location based services industry, where its going and he had some interesting...
A Consultant's Kübler-Ross
And now a break from our regularly scheduled program:
1. Denial - “Nah, I won’t get a LOW. The principal has my back.”
2. Anger - “WTF?! How is it MY fault YOU didn’t sell any work?!”
3. Bargaining - “OK. Maybe I can get something on the government side. I’ll take the paycut. Whatever. I just need to ride this out for a few more months.”
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Location, Location, Location
So I never really explained my principal interest, which is of course location. I also haven’t really written much on my favorite apps. Double fail. So what I want to do is take this opportunity to write about why I like location, where I see it going and how I think certain apps are going to get us there. Sweet.
I first became interested in location around six years ago. Then, I was a...
