Best of the Backchannel: Geo-location & Mobility Panel

Summaries of the key points from each session, as captured by TWTRCON DC 09 attendee tweets on October 22. (With RTs and #twtrcon’s removed.)

Panel: Geo-location & Mobility

• Darren Koenig, Director of Wireless, LBS and Consumer Markets, Tele Atlas (@teleatlas)
• Michael O’Connor,President, myallo.com (@lepton)
• Moderator:  Rob Pegoraro, Consumer Technology Columnist, Washington Post (@robpegoraro)

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@sbosm: “Location is the ultimate context.”

@communitychange: This opens the door for hyper-contextual organizing RT @garlin Real Time + Geolocation + Mobile = The Future

@digiphile: Curious to to hear what #twtrcon panelists think about how geolocation data creates privacy & security risks http://j.mp/1u6JQf

@rpesce: Mobility panel. @lepton talking about possibility of location specific application tweets from cafe w/ what band is playing.

@AnnikaStensson: Geolocation on Twitter can be a great way for single-location restaurants to micro-taget audiences, panel says.

@keder: I think geo-targeting is kind of creepy and big-brotherish.  Am I alone? #twtrcon // No. It’s creepy/cool… like a vampire.

@ReneeRevetta: walk by @starbucks and get an SMS text of a coupon?! yes, please!

@brightmatrix: Geolocation today, augmented reality tomorrow.

@AnnikaStensson: Geolocation on Twitter can be a great way for single-location restaurants to micro-taget audiences, panel says.

@TWTRCON: We think of geolocation as GPS” but we’ve also got wifi positioning

@csukach: Geolocation & mobile tech making it easier for ppl to discover new places & services around them (via @lepton)

@jpeepz: With GPS in my iPhone, I’m really happy I didn’t drop a bunch of money on a handheld GPS unit. Just sayin.

@judywriter: Idea: If spkr @teleatlas follows In & Out Burger & travels, they’ll tweet where one is in that city & sell coupla extra burgers.

@AnnikaStensson: Geoloc on twttr can B way 4 single-location restrnts 2 micro-target audiences, panel says.

@floridagirlindc: What if we could geolocate volunteer opportunities for people to make a difference with their downtime?

@acarvin: Getting a tweet w/ a starbucks coupon is ok, but i’d rather get NOAA weather alerts warning me of tornados and such.

@floridagirlindc: If In-n-Out burger tweeted me, I’d probably gain a pound per tweet. Even w/o a discount geolocated my way.

@sharontb: interesting that geolocation tracking road trip w/ extreme details is seen as asset rather than scary stalker tool #twtrcon food 4 thought

@hollisthomases: Question for geo-location marketing: Is there a way to opt-out so everyone can’t see where a user is?

@SBoSM: “Foursquare is neat, unless no one you know is on it.”

@SourcerKelly: how about walk by a starbucks and get a @dunkindonuts coupon…

@sharontb: potential mash ups?  ppl who tweet "volunteer" with geolocation of volunteer needs (based on open source data from all for good?)

@ellenrossano: @blockrealestate Curious how people use it in emergency response-can they send real-time info to responders?

@digitalsista: discussing the privacy issue to britekite and geo location apps on twitter

@MilitaryTweets: #twtrcon from @garlin I didn’t know 65% of new cell phones have GPS.

@SourcerKelly: hmm..geolocation and recruiting…future connf topic? i totally see that happening

@brightmatrix: Location awareness is useful when users are in control, not services that would use GPS to push (unwanted) info to those users.

@ReneeRevetta: BrightKite has good security, can choose exact location or just city and friend or trusted friend #twtrcon (via @lepton)

@digitalsista: #netneutrality conversation just made it to #twtrcon

@hollisthomases: @lepton Many people enable their smart phone GPS identifiers and don’t know it, particularly damning for celebrity tweeters.

@abohannon: Need for more security, awareness, options w/ geolocation – via panelist @lepton

@Jeanne23: Friend knew something was up when BF turned off geolocation (surprising her, but she realized it)

@garthmoore: Interesting that so many people at #twtrcon distrust geo-location apps, probably for very good reasons (sci-fi movies ruined us all)

@sjniman: Geolocation and mobile. Using location based social services – Marketing nirvana or invasion of privacy?

@4GreenPs: This is a very sophisticated audience yet people aren’t  fully aware of whether they’re transmitting their own location!

@floridagirlindc: Ooh, listen up… Using geolocation to track lying boyfriends… Wish I had that in college!

@chrisloos: Lets see some augmented reality + twitter + geolocation apps.

@abohannon: @Jeanne23 @keder with proper user controls, can be an incredibly useful feature. But control needs to stay in hands of users.

@SourcerKelly: @Hardip_Singh More in the context of a jobseeker enters your geo radius and gets job/opps notification. not restricted to search

@ScottHorvath: The @USGSted prototype uses geolocation & twitter loc to plot tweets related to earthquake events to improve the scientific data

@UltraNurd: It’s like detecting stealth plane by “shadow” in bckgrnd radionoise. If geolocate a lot, absence noticed.

@JohnBattaglino: age 29 is the threshold for trusting GPS features and aps. In academia, that line clearly divides the admins from the students.

@garlin: Participation flows from perceived value. “People will share their location if you show why they should.” -@teleatlas

@sjniman: I can see where broadcasting your location has value at times but having it as a default option in a social app is problematic.

@B2BTOTY: Geolocation is a app for B2B companies, especially with mobile work forces.

@julieminevich: I really believe augmented reality and geolocation – through mobile? – are the next big things

@csukach: Augmented reality is essentially a heads-up display for your phone/life (via @lepton) layering digital info over the video input

@rpesce: Geolocation & Mobility discussions always interesting, always lots of opinion & some controversy. Thanks to @teleatlas & @lepton