Monthly Archives: April 2010

Understanding Location – As A Business

So earlier today I ranted about loose connections on location based services and individuals using them. People befriending people/loose connections on foursquare/gowalla are a pet peeve, but businesses misusing location based services is a slightly more annoying and disappointing to … Continue reading

Apr 16
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Understanding Location – As An Individual

This is actually one half of the rant I want to spew, the other half is how businesses are misunderstanding the true use of Location Based Services. I’ll post that later today. This rant really covers only the following tools: … Continue reading

Apr 16
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What the twitter acquisition of tweetie really means

or Who should be scared, and who should be overjoyed by Twitter’s decision to compete with its eco-system. Twitter announced on friday that they were acquiring atebits, the makers of the SUPER popular tweetie application for iPhone and Mac OSX. … Continue reading

Apr 12
Filed under: Twitter

Apple just pulled a facebook

With the big iPhone OS 4.0 announcement today, one of Apple’s big announcements is iAds, their mobile ad network (which was built from their acquisition of Quattro a few months ago). So why did they pull a facebook today? In … Continue reading

Apr 08
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The Point Of Refresh

In the spirit of creating a lively discourse about the South Florida Tech Community, I figure I should revisit where my involvement began. This story begins in 2005. Prior to the creation of RefreshMiami I had been to maybe a … Continue reading

Apr 01
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