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Location-Based Apps Find Their Place
A woman stops in a BART subway station in San Francisco to send a text from her phone. But she's not telling her friends she'll be late for happy hour. By sending a text to a location-based app, she's trying to save the Earth.
Through this "check-in" on Foursquare, that woman is making a donation to EarthJustice, an environmental law organization. This is one of the many ways that nonprofits are taking advantage of a new generation of applications that utilize physical location information to tie together the online and offline worlds. Location-based apps use GPS or other physical location information to map and keep track of users interacting with the service.
- Trenton's blog
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"Collective Intelligence" + SMS + Translators
Posting the initial run of this project URL http://mobile-democracy.re-configure.org has me thinking that "Collective Intelligence" + SMS is something to figure out how to develop further.
Something I will be mentioning in the project overview is the essential need for translators and perhaps employing people from http://www.telelanguage.com
- earth-intel-net's blog
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