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Archives for November 16, 2010

Mobile Music Soars In Usage After Adding GeoSocial Features

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This from Skyhook wireless as the company notes that mobile apps apps ShareTunes and SongStumblr, mobile music apps that use Skyhook’s location technology managed to grow their user base and loyalty thanks to Geo social.  Intersect World LLC’s music apps have now been downloaded over 2.5 million times with huge growth experienced after adding geosocial features. Intersect World LLC jis a music app developer integrating Skyhook’s Local Faves toolkit to quickly deploy geosocial features. The social networking integration provided by Local Faves allows my users to find music nearby and share music recommendations with friends on Twitter and Facebook. See more details

Geo Fun, 15 Puzzles – The ArcGIS Game

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Here’s an interesting app from the developers of the popular Xmap Pro for ArcGIS that extends ArcGIS and adds a little bit of Geo fun – perfect for GAW and GIS Day amusement perhaps! About the app… The goal of the Fifteen Puzzle game is to arrange the tiles so that the top row reads 1-2-3-4 (from left to right), the second row 5-6-7-8, the third row 9-10-11-12 and the bottom row 13-14-15 with the space in the lower right corner. Run Fifteen Puzzle and look as your ArcMap data frame is being cut into fifteen puzzle tiles and randomly shuffled! Now try to arrange the map fragments in the correct order as fast as you can – see more info in this announcement

Infographic – Just How Safe Is It To Fly?

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An interesting info graphic showing us just how safe it really is to fly – note: data were gathered in 2009 and analyzed for creation of this graphic depiction. This graphic of interest as reports are showing that air travel bookings are up some 3.5% this year over 2009 for the busy Thanksgiving travel period. Graphic courtesy of blog.FriendlyPlanet.com

Causeworld social, mobile checkin for charity

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An interesting location-aware mobile app designed to help users donate to their favorite cause. Simply collect Karma by walking into stores or add even more karma by scanning things with your scanner. Donate to a cause via your mobile using social checkin functionality. The app is designed for business and charity use. You can help offset carbon, fight cancer, or provide relief for Haiti. See http://www.causeworld.com or search causeworld in iTunes store

Testing causeworld social checkin for charity app

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