Google posts “by bike” instructions on Googlemaps! Original Tweet: THEY say. When can I do Broadway Market to Dover, Stoke Newington to Putsborough or Sharrow to Paris? Still not showing up on the iPhone for London. I suppose my impatience is showing. There won’t be a party going on over at Garmin and Tom Tom as this gets rolled out.. So the mad dad with check-in fever may suddenly have a point? Facebook has been doing background checks, known as due diligence, on the location-based social network Loopt, a source with knowledge of the talks tells us. Generally speaking, due diligence of this kind is only performed when a company is in acquisition or fundraising talks. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Facebook Checks-In On Loopt: .) As everyone knows, Garmin and TomTom have their backs against the ropes in a fight to remain relevant in an age of free GPS turn-by-turn navigation on smartphones (thanks Google and Nokia). While dedicated personal navigators are almost always superior to their converged competition, the gap has certainly narrowed such that it’s become difficult to justify another device when an increasing number of people already carry a fine navigation device in their pockets. But that’s just gut instinct talking, where’s the hard evidence? Certainly not speculative stock prices. A good place to start is in forward-looking financial statements like the [ continue reading Garmin and TomTom cling to profits, hope ] 25 February 2010  |  | category: Apple, Google, iPhone, location+, maps & mapping  | comments are closed  I had no idea how many outdoor scenes on TV shows are shot on a green screen. Here’s a reel with several before and after examples. (via that’s how it happened) Tags: TV video (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» kottke.org Green screened: .) I’m turning the blog over today to CEO Stephen Randall for a special guest post on our integration with one of our favorite new services, Foursquare. Why Location-Based Services are Important for Place-Based Screens ] 9 February 2010 | tagged as: location+ | | category: location+, maps & mapping | comments are closed |  
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