A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

Great article “Social Web is the New Discovery Engine” by Ilya on the Postrank blog, a must read to understand the dimensions of social media and its changing impact on society. As a quick teaser the comparison of social media contributions versus one traditional media company, Thomson Reuters.

Relevancy for my thesis:

A large amount of these social media contributions contain location information which is often already given in a machine-readable format or can be extracted through keyword matching, for example. Can these information be used to describe geospatial activites like earthquakes or plane crahses?

Related posts:

• Social Media Contributions
• FYI: The Social Web
• Cite: hyperlocal & citizen journalism
• Towards the Integration of Spatiotemporal User-Generated Content and Sensor Data
• Tip: Social Design Best Practices

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