LBS Theme day Feest.je

For Esther’s research about location-based service, she decided to invite Dennis from Feest.je to come talk about location-based services and their own product in particular. 

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Rise in location-based services?

Last year, when I did my placement at the Netherlands Youth Institute, I attended an expert meeting with social media researcher Danah Boyd at the University of Tilburg. When she was asked what ‘the next big thing’ in social media would be, she didn’t hesitate and immediately responded that mobile is on the rise. “The technology is leading towards mobile. Location-based technology, like Foursquare and Gowalla (online social media through which you can tell people where you are). The first ones to use new technology are always the geeks, freaks and queers, so I look to them to see what will happen.”
I count myself in at least two of the above stated categories, so obviously I have been using Foursquare like mad for months trying to wrestle the title of ‘mayor’ out of the hands of other geeks and freaks around Utrecht.

Tagged with: location based services, foursquare, feest.je,