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Location-based services

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The first QRcode made of traditional stoned Portuguese floor in downtown Lisbon

Geotagging of physical places

“Geotagging” or “mobile annotation” can be understood as the practice of attaching information to physical places, through new technologies of location (QRcodes, NFC, RFID). Geotagging is just one of the categories of locative media, which has been used for arts, transparency government, mobile shopping, historical legacy and digital graffiti purposes. I will illustrate this possibility … Continue reading »

Why should news organizations care about location-based services?

Nowadays, innovation may be a product, which companies must be aware of and produce as any core product that the company offers (Briggs, 2012: p.126). As Mark Briggs states in his book “Entrepreneurial Journalism”, in the digital era every kind of business, including big and small news companies should innovate in order to survive in … Continue reading »

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