I’ve been fascinated by social mobile location services since at least 2006 when, three years before Foursquare and year after Google acquired Dodgeball, a UK entrepreneur created BuddyPing, now sadly defunct, and right up to the launch of Pin Drop the other day. The rise of the iPhone shortly after created an ecosystem of location-aware apps which has continued to mushroom ever since. But there’s one thing that has frustrated me. Seeing where people are right now is all very well. But I what really want to know is – where will they be next? And note just the future, but in the next few hours? It’s something I’ve decided to call Near-time Location Planning. Now, in ‘Global Planning’, Dopplr had an amazing vision of where the future and location could be mixed, but Nokia’s acquisition effectively killed its development. Plancast has been interesting but it’s not location aware. Ditto and Foreca.st have come close. But not quite. (more…)
Posts Tagged future
Uberlife – The next Foursquare, but for future real-world meetups?
January 16, 2012 at 10:04 pm 
Amanda Wang 
Posted in Apple, Social 
Tags: app, foursquare, future, hangouts, iphone app, meetups, newtechman, uberlife 
Samsung’s Live Press Conference At CES International 2012
January 9, 2012 at 10:47 pm Amanda Wang 
It would be a huge understatement to say that Samsung had a good 2011. But that’s not what today’s about. Today, we’re looking into the future of Samsung and no place is better than the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
If you feel like following along, check out the webcast below.
It’s 2012 Already So Where Are All The Jetsons Flying Cars
January 1, 2012 at 11:24 pm Amanda Wang 
As we enter 2012, shouldn’t we all be traveling around in flying cars by now? That was the prediction in the Jetsons cartoon tv show. The futuristic series, first produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962, was set in 2062, exactly 50 years from today. 2012 is the halfway point, so we’ve still got some time before we are all driving around in flying cars. But, many other technology advances from the Jetsons are already with us.
The Jetsons represented an optimistic view of technology and the future. As Jeffrey Tucker writes, “it was neither utopian nor dystopian” and “technology was the best (but of course it still malfunctions, same as today.)” (more…)
