Not too long ago everyone on twitter was showing their support for Iran by changing their location. There were a variety of reasons I heard of for changing your location to Tehran, but I never did. I think accurately representing your location in your twitter profile is more important than people think.

As you can see from my graphic above, people set their locations to a variety of different uses. Some people are very specific and providing city, state and zip for their location. Others just provide a city. Some people put the name of a business in their location. In …read more

A discussion was raised again today about the usefulness and validity of a location based alarm system. Most alarms that we think of our based on a specific time of day. The challenge with that type of alarm is your location, or context of your day may not have been what you planned for it to have been at that time.

What would really be helpful is to be reminded of something you needed to do when you were at a specific location, regardless of what time it was. For instance, the next time I’m around the corner of 71st and …read more