Comments on: With beans, please http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:53:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan Melinger http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/#comment-360816 Dan Melinger Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:57:25 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/#comment-360816 Thanks for the Socialight shout-out, Jay. (I'm one of the co-founders and a Jeff Jarvis fan :-) Yes - it's been a struggle to get location-based services out to the masses in the US, but it's finally happening. Half of mobile subscribers (those with the CDMA guys, Sprint and Verizon) already have GPS chips in their phones and the carriers are now slowly letting 3rd-party applications access them. If you're not content to wait for the carriers, there are alternatives: get yourself one of the growing number of GPS phones for AT&T or T-Mobile, like the BlackBerry 8800 or Nokia N95 (we'll have Socialight available for these soon) or you can even use/hack your wifi device, like <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/1409409709/" rel="nofollow">my friend Dennis has done (photo taken at our offices)</a>... Thanks for the Socialight shout-out, Jay. (I’m one of the co-founders and a Jeff Jarvis fan :-)

Yes - it’s been a struggle to get location-based services out to the masses in the US, but it’s finally happening. Half of mobile subscribers (those with the CDMA guys, Sprint and Verizon) already have GPS chips in their phones and the carriers are now slowly letting 3rd-party applications access them. If you’re not content to wait for the carriers, there are alternatives: get yourself one of the growing number of GPS phones for AT&T or T-Mobile, like the BlackBerry 8800 or Nokia N95 (we’ll have Socialight available for these soon) or you can even use/hack your wifi device, like my friend Dennis has done (photo taken at our offices)…

]]> By: Tansley - addendum http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/#comment-360795 Tansley - addendum Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:55:40 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/#comment-360795 I know you have to watch the cholesterol, but you really should try the Chimichanga more often than the Burrito. Just pop a lecithin afterwards... I know you have to watch the cholesterol, but you really should try the Chimichanga more often than the Burrito. Just pop a lecithin afterwards…

]]> By: Jay Fallon http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/#comment-360709 Jay Fallon Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:40:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/09/25/with-beans-please/#comment-360709 I started a project called Popcluster back in April '07, whose basic functionality was to provide the mobile user with that type of data: good stuff within walking distance of the user. The main problem was that one would have to work with multuple carriers/operating systems to get a truly global product out, and the carriers have many security concerns. One company that is doing something similar is <a href="http://socialight.com/" rel="nofollow">Socialight</a>. I started a project called Popcluster back in April ‘07, whose basic functionality was to provide the mobile user with that type of data: good stuff within walking distance of the user.

The main problem was that one would have to work with multuple carriers/operating systems to get a truly global product out, and the carriers have many security concerns. One company that is doing something similar is Socialight.

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