With the popularity of geolocation, mobile search, iphone/Andrioid apps, local advertising, location information is playing an important role in social media today. We have started sharing our location information on the web and via mobile devices through a number of services -- FireEagle, Brightkite, twitter, loopt, dopplr, Whrrl, geohash, citysense -- just to name a few. (phew!)
The "Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009)" to be held in conjunction with CHI 2009 (Boston, MA) looks like a very interesting venue to discuss ideas and research related to this topic.
From the CFP
Workshop Website: http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/ locweb2009/
Position Paper Submission Deadline: October 23, 2008
Overview
The goal of the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web
(LocWeb 2009) is to bring together researchers to discuss the ways in which
location as a first-class concept in Web services and Web applications will
transform the Web into a location-aware information system. We are
particularly interested in how location concepts can be shared across
applications to provide adequate support for an evolving ecosystem of
location-aware services and applications.
Position Paper Submission Deadline: October 23, 2008
Overview
The goal of the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web
(LocWeb 2009) is to bring together researchers to discuss the ways in which
location as a first-class concept in Web services and Web applications will
transform the Web into a location-aware information system. We are
particularly interested in how location concepts can be shared across
applications to provide adequate support for an evolving ecosystem of
location-aware services and applications.
This event has been updated in the Social Media events calendar.
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