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Peeling Back the Layers of the Firefox Geode Location Add-on
The announcement of a geolocation add-on for Mozilla's Firefox last week prompted lots of discussion around its role in the browser, its support of standards, and its use of Skyhook's wi-fi solution for location determination. Our editors peel back the layers to take on these and other issues including, does such a broker belong in the browser?
Show notes:
- Introducing Geode (Mozilla Labs Blog)
- Mozilla
- HitsLink Browser Marketshare Data
- W3C Geolacation Spec - Editor's Draft
- W3C Geolocation Working Group
- Mozilla Adapts Skyhook's Loki Location-Finding System for Firefox (Xconomy)
- Google's Gears Not Just for Offline Accessibility (TechCrunch)
- Two New Ways to Location Enable Your Web Apps (Google Code Updates Blog)
Privacy and Personal Geographic Data
At the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, Kirk Goldsberry, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, gave a fascinatng presentation with the help of two of his students on the topic of personal geographic data and privacy. Geoff Zeiss provides a recap.
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