My first resource for this topic of location aware technologies was the Location Technologies Primer. This article really did not tell much about the implementations of the technologies, rather it listed out the basic principles of mobile Location-Based Services (LBS) that are emerging quickly. Over all it describes those different types of technologies and, as I understood it, the strengths and weaknesses of them.
The second resource, Location-Aware Networking: We Know Where You Are, talks about the emerging technologies and their opportunities to find critical people or resources faster to simplify the user interface for mobile voice and data functions, and improve the security and effectiveness of Wi-Fi networks.
The third resouce, How Your Location-Aware iPhone Will Change Your Life, was an article written about the Apple iPhone just before some major releases. The part I wanted to focus on here is the part about Social Networking. Apparently by the point of the article there were a lot of location-based social networking applications for the iPhone, but only if they were jail-broken. Now, looking into many of the applications on Apple’s site, you no longer need you iPhone / Touch to be jail-broken because since then there have been several dozen applications that track the location of your social networks, like Twitter, Twinkle, FaceBook, and more. As well, there are other applications that can help you decide where to go eat nearby, or where to find a store with a certain item that you are looking for, all by location awareness.
All that I have read, I think that location aware technologies could fundamentally change social networking, business, and advertising. For the most part we have already seen the uses of location aware technologies for a number of years serving purposes for Driving directions, tracking things such as cell phones, cars (lo-jack) or stolen merchandise, all with the use of GPS, but now with the new technologies coming into play, such as Windows Network Location Awareness (NLA) which collects and stores network configuration and location information and notifies applications when this information changes, are more specifically geared closer towards what is more important to our industry we are starting to see an exponential rise in the mobile location aware technologies, interfaces and even more. The location awareness is now not necessarily taking place miles above our heads, but just within a few feet of where we reside or visit our favorite restaurant or coffee shop.
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