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| The Plague app shares posts based on proximity. |
Remember when location-based services, LBSs, were going to be the next big thing? When nearly all the GIS companies focused acquisitions, development and hiring to be ready? When new publications came online to cover it? As a datapoint consider that
Directions Magazine acquired what became LBS360 in
2006, and shut it down a few years later.
Things change. Today GIS and general technical publication rarely mention LBS. LBS still exists; it's just the important bit, location, is embedded within other apps and services, notably, social media ones. What is going on in location-based social media as 2015 opens its curtains?