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I’ve been thinking about location and mobile a lot lately, mostly trying to wrap my head around this nebulous (at least to me) “social location” trend. It seems to me that so many “location-based services” — I just shudder uopn reading that term — of today are rehashes of many of the same ideas from the early days of LBS, they’ve just got slightly better UIs and GPS makes them less of a hassle. So it was with some interest I followed some of the tweets coming out of this week’s Mobile Monday London, which was about location. It was apparently inspired, in part, by an article from Mobile Entertainment dispelling that industry’s top 10 myths, which included this gem: 9. “Location-based technology is intrinsically exciting for consumers…” No it’s not. The phrase “location-based technology” intrinsically puts most people who aren’t in the mobile industry to sleep. And... http://symbianapplications.info/locati...