The weekly LBSzone social location news round-up billed as "The Social Location Report" was released  Nov 8, 2011... enjoy   

Welcome to another Location technology news update. Thanks to Esri again for hosting another terrific DevMeetUp event, this one last week in Fort Collins, CO where we estimated that about 100 GeoGeeks and GIS Pros gathered for a beer, some good Mexican eats, and some Geo Talks and Geo Socializing. We were all impressed with the turnout. No surprise, the topics of mobile app dev, Tablets in particular, web app vs client app, html5 and related matters were hot stuff... I also hopped on stage and delivered a discussion on social media for the corporate GIS environment - thanks for the nice reception and feedback! FYI, a few photos from DevMeetUp CO are here, videos can be found on Vimeo (more to come soon) and if you want to attend a DevMeetup in your area checkout the schedule HERE (DC, Raleigh NC, and LA events are this Thursday). FYI, follow all the updates from meets on twitter via #devmeetup. Finally, if the topic of mobile and citizen engagement is on your mind then take note of a webinar tomorrow morning from Esri and CitySourced... details below.

A few Tech news items of interest that have been featured at LBSzone.com so far this week: Skyworks Powers Samsung's Next Generation Galaxy Smart Phones; Geomate.jr Expands Geocaching Opportunities for Schools - The object of Educaching is to get teachers and students out of the classroom to experience a fun and active way to learn through geocaching; Mobile Marketing Apps from iBuildApp Now Feature Mobile Coupons - create customers who are loyal to their own brand; Nokia and Microsoft Reaching Out to the Mobile Devloper - Nokia expects to put 25,000 Nokia devices running Windows Phone into the hands of developers around the world! See more details in the links provided below...

Some fun, casual, and maybe a little Geeky updates of interest via the AnyGeo blog (blog.gisuser.com); Google + Takes on facebook with Launch of G+ Pages For Businesses - another social resource for the business to manage and figure out! Rich Ruh Talks mobile Geo - a video from DevMEetup (more coming later this week); Google Maps API Usage Limits and a new APi Premier (for mobile and desktop); Petition The Whitehouse For Access to GIS Technology and Training; Leveraging Cloud Computing for GIS Success from DMP @DMPinc; 10 Favorite Tweets From the Geo Twitter Sphere - a recap of 10 recent Tweets of interest. Have a great week all and be sure to check out our facebook page (facebook.com/lbszone) and follow along on Twitter @lbszone 

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