Comments on: How LBS should work… http://www.edparsons.com/2007/03/how-lbs-should-work/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ed http://www.edparsons.com/2007/03/how-lbs-should-work/#comment-724 Ed Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:35:01 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=436#comment-724 11pm - I'd be tucked up with my horlicks, might need an LBS to find my slippers ! 11pm – I’d be tucked up with my horlicks, might need an LBS to find my slippers !

]]> By: Sim http://www.edparsons.com/2007/03/how-lbs-should-work/#comment-723 Sim Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:27:47 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=436#comment-723 "At 9pm you would turn your phone on again and Google would know you wanted bars near the restaurant. At 11pm Google again predicts you need a list of local taxi firms. " This sounds like a very dull night out. It also omits to indicate that at 11.30pm Google would fail to predict the abuse that would be received for asking a cabbie to go 'sarf of the river'. “At 9pm you would turn your phone on again and Google would know you wanted bars near the restaurant. At 11pm Google again predicts you need a list of local taxi firms. ”

This sounds like a very dull night out. It also omits to indicate that at 11.30pm Google would fail to predict the abuse that would be received for asking a cabbie to go ‘sarf of the river’.

]]> By: Chris Fleming http://www.edparsons.com/2007/03/how-lbs-should-work/#comment-722 Chris Fleming Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:01:04 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=436#comment-722 It's nice, although I'm not really convinced that it's as ground breaking as they make out. But the potential for mobile devices to "assist" users based on time and location is clearly powerful and will hopefully make life easier. I suspect that I'm not alone in sending a text or phoning home once I'm on the train. Would it not be so much better if the phone, based on time and location automatically picked the numbers that I use from that location at that time, or taking it once step further just making the call for me... It’s nice, although I’m not really convinced that it’s as ground breaking as they make out.

But the potential for mobile devices to “assist” users based on time and location is clearly powerful and will hopefully make life easier.

I suspect that I’m not alone in sending a text or phoning home once I’m on the train. Would it not be so much better if the phone, based on time and location automatically picked the numbers that I use from that location at that time, or taking it once step further just making the call for me…

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