AUDIENCE PREPARATION

• Download and set up account for
  Foursquare (iPhone/Android)
• Download and set up Yelp
  (iPhone/Android)
• Follow along #SM4geolocation
• Have your Apps ready!
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GEO-LOCATION – WHAT IS IT?
REAL-WORLD GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF AN OBJECT



                          • Computers
                          • Tablets
                          • Other data connected devices
GEO-LOCATION, HOW DOES IT WORK?
WHAT RELIES ON GEO-LOCATION?
WHAT RELIES ON GEO-LOCATION?
APPS
APPS
            Foursquare                 SCVNGR

•   Free for businesses   • Subscription fee for businesses
•   Tips and To-dos       • Scavenger type game
•   Badges
•   Mayorships
•   Points
•   Special deals
FOURSQUARE VS. SCVNGR


I always think of SCVNGR in more of the payments / couponing space.
 While foursquare does have deals and specials most of what we're
doing revolves around helping people discover & share the places they
like most with their friends.
FOURSQUARE
FOURSQUARE – CHECK-IN
FOURSQUARE - DEMO
FOURSQUARE - FEATURES
FOURSQUARE – MERCHANT PLATFORM
SCVNGR
SCVNGR - DEMO
SCVNGR - FEATURES
SCVNGR – FOR BUSINESSES
OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS & GEO-LOCATION
OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS & GEO-LOCATION

 Facebook -       Twitter -       Google+ -     Yelp – Find
   Places         Location        Location         local
                                                businesses
• Places       • Add location   • Add          • Locate
• Check-in       to tweets        “location”     nearby bars
• Add                                            and
  “location”                                     restaurants
• Pages                                        • Proximity geo-
                                                 location
FACEBOOK & GEO-LOCATION
TWITTER & GEO-LOCATION
GOOGLE+ & GEO-LOCATION
YELP & GEO-LOCATION
WHAT’S NEXT?
•   Automatic Check-ins
•   RFID (Radio Frequency Identification
•   NFC (Near Field Communication)
•   Augmented Reality
YELP – AUGMENTED REALITY
WHAT’S NEXT – ONE POSSIBLE FUTURE FROM
GOOGLE

        http://g.co/projectglass
SOCIAL REACH AND INFLUENCE

Sm4 geolocation presentation

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Introductions Jared Jennifer Alyssa Shira
  • #4 Geo-location Other terms Location based services GPS Definition: Real-World geographic location of an object
  • #5 What has geo-location capabilities? Devices with GPS Navigation Computers Cell phones PDAs & Tablets You are connected through all of these devices!
  • #6 But how? Most devices now have some form of GPS GPS – communicates with satellites to pinpoint exact location A-GPS – combination of Cellular and GPS Cellular – triangulates an approximate location by pinging off of nearby cell towers WiFi – slightly more accurate that cellular (uses IP addresses)
  • #7 Apps Can anyone name some apps that you think might use geo-location? They all do!
  • #8 Apps Google+ Google Latitude Path Yelp Gowalla Twitter Foursquare SCVNGR
  • #9 The two that we are going to focus on today are Foursquare SCVNGR
  • #10 Both Apps that would not function without geo-location BUT their approach to geo-location apps is very different. Foursquare vs. SCVNGR
  • #11 What does Denis Crowley, the founder of Foursquare think?
  • #23 You choose how specific your location is
  • #24 General vs. Exact location
  • #25 Exact location or City-level location
  • #26 Nearby Doesn’t broadcast location – uses it to target information more effectively
  • #27 Automatic Check-ins NFC (Near Field Communication