Comments on: location based information kit http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:52:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ian Lee http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Ian Lee Mon, 12 May 2008 07:13:41 +0000 http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/#comment-463 The million dollar (pound/quid?) question for me is, how can we pinpoint someone's general location for web personalizations based on geo-location which has been previously done off of the user's IP address? It seems like, at least here in the USA, most phones use care-of-addresses and are situated behind an actual IP address many miles away. For Sprint, my Treo's IP address is one in Massachusetts... But, on the flip side, if we were able to locate someone based on care-of-address (location of nearest cell tower), we'd be invading their privacy... So what what do you actually do? I think I read an article recently about a guy working for Nokia traveling the world taking pictures of people using technology (mainly mobile phones) in their own environment and your blog seems somewhat similar. Very interesting as I majored in Anthropology. The million dollar (pound/quid?) question for me is, how can we pinpoint someone’s general location for web personalizations based on geo-location which has been previously done off of the user’s IP address? It seems like, at least here in the USA, most phones use care-of-addresses and are situated behind an actual IP address many miles away. For Sprint, my Treo’s IP address is one in Massachusetts… But, on the flip side, if we were able to locate someone based on care-of-address (location of nearest cell tower), we’d be invading their privacy…

So what what do you actually do? I think I read an article recently about a guy working for Nokia traveling the world taking pictures of people using technology (mainly mobile phones) in their own environment and your blog seems somewhat similar. Very interesting as I majored in Anthropology.

]]> By: Tom Griffiths http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Tom Griffiths Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:29:41 +0000 http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/#comment-443 I am reminded about something I read from Jeremy Wagstaff(loosewire blog)about software on mobile/cell phones to use the camera to read bar codes, which are mostly constructed to a set of internationally agreed standards. Perhaps there is scope for an influential company like Nokia to develop a standard format for displaying names and phone numbers on signs or in print media so that on-phone software can convert a camera picture of the numbers into phone/address book entries. It would take a while to adopt but my guess is that in counties like china where new ideas in technology are being very rapidly embraced this would be readily accepted. Perhaps it would need something similar to the face recognition feature used on recent digital cameras to recognise the name/number field in a camera view. BTW, welcome to London, Younghee. I am reminded about something I read from Jeremy Wagstaff(loosewire blog)about software on mobile/cell phones to use the camera to read bar codes, which are mostly constructed to a set of internationally agreed standards. Perhaps there is scope for an influential company like Nokia to develop a standard format for displaying names and phone numbers on signs or in print media so that on-phone software can convert a camera picture of the numbers into phone/address book entries. It would take a while to adopt but my guess is that in counties like china where new ideas in technology are being very rapidly embraced this would be readily accepted.
Perhaps it would need something similar to the face recognition feature used on recent digital cameras to recognise the name/number field in a camera view.

BTW, welcome to London, Younghee.

]]> By: All about Mobile Life - Some LBS related links http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-396 All about Mobile Life - Some LBS related links Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:33:19 +0000 http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/#comment-396 [...] to a number and get an instant reply with the nearest clinic testing for HIV. *** Younghee Jung: location based information kit many location-based mobile services are subjected to play around the similar threshold of adoption, [...] [...] to a number and get an instant reply with the nearest clinic testing for HIV. *** Younghee Jung: location based information kit many location-based mobile services are subjected to play around the similar threshold of adoption, [...]

]]> By: location based information kit | Personalized Information http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-375 location based information kit | Personalized Information Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:55:27 +0000 http://younghee.com/2008/04/08/location-based-information-kit/#comment-375 [...] Jonathan Allen wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptupon entering a park in shanghai, there was a signboard with a compact set of information for park visitors. on the top, there’sa picture and a phone number of the person to contact should anything happen in the park. below, … [...] [...] Jonathan Allen wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptupon entering a park in shanghai, there was a signboard with a compact set of information for park visitors. on the top, there’sa picture and a phone number of the person to contact should anything happen in the park. below, … [...]

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