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BlockChalk offers anonymous location-based messaging

Monday, January 18, 2010

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The other day, I stumbled across BlockChalk.com, a website that interacts with your mobile phone’s GPS. Unlike Twitter, Foursquare, BrightKite, and others, BlockChalk allows you to message with others; but you do so anonymously. At first, I was not sure what to think of it. After all, what’s the point of [...]

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Everybody is Freaking Out About Google Latitude

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

You may have heard that Google released a utility called Latitude a few days ago. What Latitude does is use cell tower triangulation on phones without GPS, or at least tries to do it, to figure out more or less where you are. It then puts your face up on a map to show [...]

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