Scientific Dictatorship

Your Location Is A Commodity For For Internet Companies, Advertisers

Location-based services have superseded the real-time web as the driving force behind internet innovation this year.

Internet giants like Google, Twitter and Facebook are all honing their location-based services. These bigger companies are lining up alongside a healthy serving of smaller internet start-ups (think Foursquare, Loopt, Gowalla and Booyah) to provide their consumers with comprehensive geolocation services.

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