Comments on: geoTwitter and news and more

By: NixleRep

NixleRep — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:45:20 +0000

The possibilities for hyperlocal services are endless, you name a few of them right off the bat. One intrigued me–”subscribing to tweet ads near me.” This type of reality is on the way.

I first discovered you, Jeff Jarvis, about a year and a half ago while cutting a promotion piece for a company called Nixle. I’d recently been hired there. I used some footage from your Frontline interview on the NewsWar episode. You have some great quotes in that show. At the time, “hyperlocal” was a new term and a new idea for me, but you made it succinctly understandable.

I picked your blog to begin my Nixle campaign because I respect your acumen as a writer and your diligence as a forward thinker. You may have heard of Nixle (www.nixle.com). They are currently tackling the public safety set of location based information. The company plans on using this as a foundation for a comprehensive set of location based information, which will be the core of Nixle throughout the world.

Your “tweet ads” comment reminded me of some ideas that Nixle threw around years ago. Check them out.

And keep blogging!

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Nominate a Small Business; A Very Public Firing « beFirZst.com — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:40:21 +0000

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jardenberg kommenterar – 2009-08-22 — jardenberg unedited — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:31:18 +0000

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By: @mnevins

@mnevins — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:51:13 +0000

This is a great post. I share your fascination with the potential implications. Those creating products that leverage these services may need to carefully balance utility vs. privacy. The implications for marketers are also staggering – and a bit scary.

-MN

By: Jon steinberg

Jon steinberg — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:06:33 +0000

Jeff- check out my site socialgreat.com. Will blow your mind. Foursquare powered restaurant/bar rankings.

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Nominate a Small Business; A Very Public Firing : Floriday Properties — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:50:17 +0000

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:06:15 +0000

I like the fact that the default is opt-out. Powerful stuff (potentially) but also lots of groundwork for privacy abuse too.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:27:28 +0000

Easy: the default is opt out. You opt in only if you want. No cause for privacy fears. It’s in your control.

By: kat

kat — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:09:05 +0000

i’m all for establishing credibility for those of us actually reporting from the location we state, but i’m against anything that breaches my privacy, increases spam or sends more ads.

By: Brian Greenberg

Brian Greenberg — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Like you, Jeff, I’m convinced that this functionality will eventually reach critical mass and change the world. That said, I feel the need to point out that it’s been around for quite a while and has always run into social or economic roadblocks. Back in the late 90’s, I worked for a consulting firm that pitched targeted ads to cellphones based on triangulated cell towers.

Think text messages from the gym you belong to about how you’re driving right by the gym now and haven’t been there in a while. For the most part, people read them as invasions of privacy, and so they never caught on.

Then there were the instant-coupons – text messages to the cellphone as you walk by a retail store (come in now and we’ll take 10% off the price). Some people liked it, but the majority thought it was spam (most people that walk by a store have no intention of going in).

Twitter’s a new approach, in that it’s many-to-many communication, rather than the traditional “hub & spoke” model of old-time publsihing. Let’s see if that makes all the difference…

By: Twitter to add geo-tagging | Twimmer.com :: Twitter News

Twitter to add geo-tagging | Twimmer.com :: Twitter News — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:41:56 +0000

[...] the process easy even for a novice cut-and-paste coder like myself. Journalism innovation advocate Jeff Jarvis sees lots of opportunities for news organisations. It could help verify the location of witnesses to stories. Twitpics could be geo-tagged. News [...]

By: Wallace

Wallace — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:30:08 +0000

You folks are truly a bunch of geeks! Do any of you have a life? Family? Kids?

Ever consider how all this technology is destroying the better parts of our culture?

By: Andy Gaudreau

Andy Gaudreau — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:58:48 +0000

Ad money will always follow eyeballs in both time and space. How about the development of an ad negotiation system (marketplace) that auctions ad placement on websites based on what people are looking at (and where they are when they are looking at it) in real time, thus capturing the fast-appearing, fast-dying elusive trends that advertisers want so badly (and sites will benefit from)?

For example, a site gets a “blank” api space from this broker, who provides a dashboard of current (fluctuating) ad prices (like the stock market) to advertisers to bid on placement there for price per time.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:20:27 +0000

Hey Jeff,
Re: Fabled Pothole Tracker. If you have twitterific you can tweet potholes or other community concerns at seeclickfix with a photo and their gmaps link. try it out with @seeclickfix

By: bollywood forum

bollywood forum — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:37:07 +0000

Hi Jeff,
This is really great news that the live web, the social web, and the geo web come together.
I am also agree with Valerio Veo.This is really nice post.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:54:18 +0000

RIght. It’s all about critical mass and new applications haven’t reached it yet. That’s perhaps why I’m jazzed about this: it can ride atop a very large base.

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Tweet Your Location « Wir sprechen Online. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:13:49 +0000

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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:15:12 +0000

[...] • Obligatory Twitter news segment: the company has said it is getting ready to launch a location API that will “allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet”. Privacy concerns? It’ll be opt-in. Jeff Jarvis has a few thoughts. [...]

By: Valerio Veo

Valerio Veo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:05:25 +0000

As the executive producer of an online department at a major broadcaster this is an incredibly exciting development and I can’t wait to see this really take off next time there’s a major breaking news event.

When it came to the Iranian uprising I was constantly challenged by TV reporters/producers as to the veracity of what was being posted on Twitter & YouTube (they ran it because they had nothing else).

But this development (along with Google Wave – yes I’m excited too) can change the face of newsgathering… I just hope media organisation grab the opportunity with both hands!

By: James Salsman

James Salsman — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:38:04 +0000

Whenever I fiddle with a geo-aware service like BrightKite or TwitterRide’s proximity search, I just want to find interesting people nearby. Usually I’m out of luck; it’s rare I even find anyone in driving distance. Maybe if everyone is geolocated this will work better.