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Hacking on Locations

Hacking on Locations. Arnab Nandi User Location Hacker, Yahoo! Geo & Maps. Location Awareness for a better living!. Sleep better! Have a more active social life – Offline! Get the breaking news that really matters! And … maybe you can use it to make coffee??. What Yahoo offers.

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Hacking on Locations

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  1. Hacking on Locations Arnab Nandi User Location Hacker, Yahoo! Geo & Maps

  2. Location Awareness for a better living! • Sleep better! • Have a more active social life – Offline! • Get the breaking news that really matters! • And … maybe you can use it to make coffee??

  3. What Yahoo offers • Placefinder • YQL Geo and WOEIDs • Placemaker • Other location-centric data • Locals, Traffic, Maps & Weather. 3

  4. Location is not just (lat,lon) Introducing WOEIDs Location as a complex object And sometimes it is hidden 4

  5. Interpreting location needs Context Matrimonial Advertisement The Iceland volcanic eruption 5

  6. What's location app without Users? • Detecting user location • Check-in location • Location brokerage • Yahoo! Fire Eagle 6

  7. Typical use of location Location as a Filter Location as an Attribute Location as a Variable 7

  8. Where can I find locations? • Many digital assets have geo-tagging. • Images. • Tweets. • Users (and IP addresses) • Not all content are directly geo-tagged … use Placemaker for text 8

  9. Thank You! NEXT: Let’s locate your HACK!

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