A Perspective on Location Services, Mobile Entrepreneurship & Startup Life

We have an insatiable desire to make sense of the world around
us. How do we best observe and record the details of time, nature,
location, events, and our own personal experiences? How can we
understand the interactions among data and utilize them with
intelligence and responsibility? To explore these questions, Nokia
has spurred an explosion of sensor-based research in which the
mobile phone plays a front-line role in sensing, processing, and
communicating an array of valuable information.

[Source: Nokia Research Center - Sensing the World with Mobile Devices (PDF)]

Why do I blog this? The concept of people-centric sensing is intriguing, humans with their total mobility are carrying Internet-connected mobile phones nearly all the time and thus it shapes a social sensing overlay of tremendous scale. Sensing anywhere and anytime. Definitely worth reading the vision of Nokia Research.

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