Social media, particularly Twitter, is about listening, learning, sharing, and connecting with others. In many cases, people with like interests form around specific topics, themes or ideas. Using hashtags (#), some people group conversations around a relevant topic and focus the discussion. Many groups form and take the discussions further by establishing regularly timed twitter [...]
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Twitter Chats and Digital Cars
October 13th, 2010 
KevinShannon 
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics 
Tags: chat, digicar, news twitter chat, tech, Telematics, twitter 
1 Comment »Ford Sync Has The Lead, Will It Hold On To It?
April 1st, 2010 Jeff Shariat It’s a new foundation for the ultimate mobile device. The automobile will never be the same. As the mobile web (i.e. sites specifically designed to be viewed on mobile devices) is being replaced by mobile apps and sites that are dual purpose (i.e. the standard site can be viewed reliably in a mobile browser) Google [...]
Posted in Etc..., Ford Sync / Touch Tags: api, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, MyFord, MyFord Touch, real-time data, Safety + Security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics, twitter 2 Comments »The Mobile Web vs Apps vs Both
March 31st, 2010 Jeff Shariat As the mobile web (i.e. sites specifically designed to be viewed on mobile devices) is being replaced by mobile apps and sites that are dual purpose (i.e. the standard site can be viewed reliably in a mobile browser) Google seems to think that developers should be leverage the mobile web to create cross platform applications. [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News Tags: Emerging Tech, google, google navigation, gps, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, real-time data, tech, Telematics, twitter, Wifi Comments OffTwitter, Now With Geo-Location
March 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Last year Twitter acquired Mixer Labs and the Geo API in an effort to continue boosting their location based functionality. Twitter added a ‘local trend’ feature that allows users to see tweets based in a certain area, but the location was manually set by the user. Now Twitter has announced the addition of a more [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, geo, geo api, geo location, News, real time, real-time traffic, Telematics, twitter 6 Comments »Ford Sync Feature Spotlight: API and Apps (aka AppLink)
March 9th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Update: Ford has announced the AppLink downloadable program which will be the in-vehicle application that manages the functionality discussed in this post. It will be available first on the 2011 Ford Fiesta and will allow integration with Android and Blackberry apps. We’ve talked about the importance of apps in the future of the telematics landscape [...]
Posted in Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics Tags: convergence, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, geo lccation, infotainment, iphone, mobile, produc spotlight, real-time data, Telematics, twitter 2 Comments »From TechtoLiveBy: Heat Index – 4 Technologies to Watch in 2010
January 6th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com highlights 4 consumer technologies to watch in 2010: 4G Wireless, 3D, GeoLocation, and Google. Of the 4 3D is the one that wont have any near term impact (if ever) on the automotive telematics market. We’ve already discussed one way Google is shaping the future of real-time traffic and the additonal handsets [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: 2010, 3D, CES, gps, incident data, LBS, real-time traffic, traffic, twitter Comments OffTwitter Is Poised to Lead Real-Time Incident Data
January 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 
Twitter recently purchased Mixer Labs and their GeoAPI. The GeoAPI is a robust set of applications (web services for the technically minded) that will allow developers to actively create, query, and otherwise interact with geolocation data. This means standardized geolocation lookups across all the different Twitter apps and access methods. The addition of these features [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: api, Emerging Tech, geo api, incident data, mixer labs, real-time traffic, twitter 7 Comments »
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