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Mon, Mar 15, 2010 -- 9:00 AM
The Location Wars
This week, mobile social networking site
Twitter turned on the "geolocation" feature on its
website, meaning users can now broadcast their
whereabouts and find out where their friends are.
Facebook has announced plans to turn on a similar
feature next month. Meanwhile, location-based startups
like Foursquare, Gowalla and Palo Alto-based MyTown are
also generating buzz by letting users track down friends
and bargains nearby. We discuss the rise of
location-based services -- and find out why some privacy
advocates are concerned that the technology is moving
too fast.
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Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Farhad Manjoo, technology columnist for Slate.com
- Keith Lee, CEO of Booyah, the Palo Alto-based makers of MyTown, one of the most downloaded location-based games
- Rafe Needleman, editor at large for CNET
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