Location

Online

How Your Friends Are Giving Away Your Location

2:30AM January 27, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

You might have the privacy settings locked down on all your social networks, but it’s the weak links in the system that make the difference. A team at the University of Rochester in New York, for instance, say they can predict where you are to within 100m, just by analysing the location of your friends on Twitter. More »

Software

Foursquare’s Now All About Discovery

12:20AM November 17, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Foursquare’s undergone something of a Renaissance over the last few weeks — packing on new features like Radar and unlockable badge levels. Now, the social-mobile site is shifting its focus away from check-ins and towards exploration while optimising the site for tablets. More »

Online

How To Opt Out Of Google’s Wi-Fi Location Database

7:10AM November 16, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Google uses a database of wireless internet access points to help provide you with all the fancy location/stalking services you enjoy on your devices. But now Google’s got a (sort of lame and pain-in-the-butt) way for you to opt your network out of its servers. More »

Software

Foursquare’s Biggest New Feature Isn’t Broken Anymore

3:14AM October 27, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The big ugly Foursquare Radar update that accompanied iOS 5 — bringing constant location tracking and social tension to the app — has been fixed. Mostly. Although the friend alienation problem persists, you’ll no longer get buried beneath horribly annoying notifications. More »

Software

The Awkward Horrors Of Knowing Where Everyone Is All The Time

5:34AM October 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Riding the orgiastic iOS 5 debut, Foursquare’s pushed out Radar It is a gamechanger, quite literally: It upends the basic social contract of Foursquare and harbinges the near-future of location-based social networking. And it’s going to be weird. More »

Software

Find My Friends Is Already Live

4:15AM October 13, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

iCloud isn’t totally off the ground yet, but the new Find My Friends app is already available in the iTunes Store. More »

Software

Foursquare’s New Radar Feature Is Better Than Find My Friends

3:54AM October 13, 2011 | Casey Chan

Thanks to iOS 5, Foursquare has a new Radar feature in its iPhone app that’s insanely cool. Radar will smartly let you know if you’re near friends, around a place on your To-Do List or followed and will even notify you when the app is closed. It’s like a super useful Find My Friends. More »

Geek Out

Location-Based Jewellery Helps The GPS Obsessed Accessorise

12:40PM September 27, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

This pendant from Fluid Forms will knock the socks off your location-crazed friends and bore the uninitiated who think GPS is an acronym for Great Public Schools. More »

Software

Foursquare For Android Is Now Prettier And More Connected

5:00PM August 30, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Foursquare’s most recent update for the Android has been pushed live (I actually received my update notice while writing this post) and offers a bevy of new features and menu redesigns. Here are some of the highlights. More »

Cars

TomTom’s Newest GPS Creepily Auto-Tweets Your Location

11:19PM August 29, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Fret not — Hurricane Irene didn’t blow all the stupid out of the world. The TomTom Go Live 1535 M packs apps! The coolest one? A neutered Twitter program that only lets you broadcast your location to the internet. Vroom! More »