GPS & Location
Mobile advertising… coming to your phone
Although most Americans haven’t used text/web/data services on their mobile phones, mobile ad companies active and some are getting acquired by major players. AOL, Google, Yahoo and several startups are all focusing efforts to either buy or build mobile ad platforms.
Market research firm eMarketer says American ad agencies spent $421 million on mobile [...]
Google brings street level images to Maps
If you are using Google Maps to check out cities in California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada or New York, you’ll notice a new option in addition to “Traffic, Satellite, Map or Hybrid”… “Street View”.
It’s a nice way to “virtually tour” places you’ve never been, or to see the neighborhood of an office you are heading to. [...]
Information Design and Emotional Maps
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been re-reading some of the old information architecture books from the mid- to late-90’s… from Clement Mok’s Designing Business, to Richard Saul Wurman’s Information Architects. It’s great seeing their early efforts, most of which are still amazing… they brought such order to very chaotic information. Subway [...]
