https://gisuser.com Mobile, Technology, and Business news Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:54:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.6 https://gisuser.com/2021/03/mark-zuckerberg-announces-facebooks-plans-to-help-get-people-vaccinated-against-covid-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mark-zuckerberg-announces-facebooks-plans-to-help-get-people-vaccinated-against-covid-19 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:53:41 +0000 https://gisuser.com/?p=74847 MENLO PARK, Calif., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, today announced that Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) plans to help people get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Today we’re launching a global campaign to help bring 50 million people a step closer to getting Covid-19 vaccines.  We’ve already connected over 2 billion people to authoritative Covid-19 information. […]

The post Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook’s Plans To Help Get People Vaccinated Against COVID-19 appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2021/01/do-safer-alternatives-to-whatsapp-exist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-safer-alternatives-to-whatsapp-exist Sat, 23 Jan 2021 02:22:59 +0000 https://gisuser.com/?p=74148 The apps we install on our phones have access to more data than we’d ideally like them to have. That’s true of almost all of them. Aside from receiving your telephone number, which can easily be linked to your identity, they might also have access to your email address, your contact list, the information contained […]

The post Do Safer Alternatives To WhatsApp Exist? appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2020/07/esri-and-facebook-collaborate-to-release-new-openstreetmap-ready-datasets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=esri-and-facebook-collaborate-to-release-new-openstreetmap-ready-datasets Fri, 17 Jul 2020 05:38:13 +0000 https://gisuser.com/?p=71546 Updated ArcGIS Map Layers and New Map With AI Tools Are Now Available for OSM Mappers REDLANDS, Calif.—Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced a partnership with Facebook to release new OpenStreetMap (OSM)-ready datasets for use in building the map. Esri’s ArcGIS Hub, already a valuable source of geodata, and ArcGIS Online now include […]

The post Esri and Facebook Collaborate to Release New OpenStreetMap-Ready Datasets appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2020/06/swedish-startup-mapillary-has-been-acquired-by-facebook-think-crowdsourced-database-of-street-level-imagery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=swedish-startup-mapillary-has-been-acquired-by-facebook-think-crowdsourced-database-of-street-level-imagery Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:00:00 +0000 https://gisuser.com/?p=71233 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Thursday acquired Swedish mapping technology company Mapillary, which collects images from tens of thousands of contributors to build immersive and up-to-date maps, the companies said. Mapillary Chief Executive Officer Jan Erik Solem, who founded the Malmö-based startup after leaving Apple Inc in 2013, said his company’s technology would […]

The post Swedish startup, Mapillary, has been acquired by Facebook (Think crowdsourced database of street-level imagery) appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2020/05/developers-enter-the-facebook-online-hackathon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=developers-enter-the-facebook-online-hackathon Tue, 19 May 2020 15:32:33 +0000 https://gisuser.com/?p=70927 An announcement from Facebook…  registrations and submissions are now open for our latest Facebook Online Hackathon, which is focused on growing communities and driving social impact! We’re calling on global developers and creators to #BuildwithFacebook across Messenger, Spark AR and Wit.ai, for the chance to win up to $21,000 in cash prizes and Oculus VR headsets. […]

The post Developers… Enter the Facebook Online Hackathon appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2019/07/the-developer-circles-from-facebook-community-challenge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-developer-circles-from-facebook-community-challenge Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:35:35 +0000 https://gisuser.com/?p=68456 Something for the developer community… Build software using React360, Spark AR, or HTML5 Games to give people the power to connect with friends and family, find communities and grow businesses. Facebook’s Developer Circles are local communities designed to help developers learn and grow. For the 2019 Developer Circles Community Challenge, you are invited to build […]

The post The Developer Circles (from facebook) Community Challenge appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/11/saybubble-allows-users-to-download-their-facebook-content-makes-it-easy-to-share-in-an-ai-driven-geo-searchable-format/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saybubble-allows-users-to-download-their-facebook-content-makes-it-easy-to-share-in-an-ai-driven-geo-searchable-format Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:49:19 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=60938 Free Your Story: New App Lets You Download All Your Media-Rich Facebook Content SAN FRANCISCO – Nov. 16, 2016 – Saybubble, the world’s first mobile AI-based geo-locational social media platform, today announced a dramatic offer that enables people to download all their Facebook content of 10+ years onto Saybubble’s platform – in 30 minutes or […]

The post Saybubble Allows Users to Download Their Facebook Content, Makes It Easy to Share in an AI-driven, Geo-searchable Format appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/03/a-tangled-web-google-facebook-amazon-and-gis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-tangled-web-google-facebook-amazon-and-gis Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:25:39 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=57272 Companies whose businesses make their homes online want everyone in the world to have access to the internet. That’s how they make money. In some ways, everyone stands to benefit from this ambition, perhaps most of all GIS and mapping specialists. Because in order to achieve this goal of world wide web colonization, these companies […]

The post A Tangled Web: Google, Facebook, Amazon, and GIS appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2016/02/digitalglobe-is-helping-facebook-connect-the-world-with-deep-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digitalglobe-is-helping-facebook-connect-the-world-with-deep-learning Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:57:38 +0000 http://gisuser.com/?p=56811 Of interest via the Digitalglobe blog…  Computer vision algorithms applied to high resolution imagery convert pixels into meaningful insights. At the Mobile World Congress today, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced the Telecom Infra Project, an initiative to develop new technologies and approaches for connecting the 4.2 billion people that still remain offline. To enable this, the […]

The post Digitalglobe is Helping Facebook connect the world with deep learning appeared first on GIS user technology news.]]> https://gisuser.com/2014/07/dev-tip-how-to-register-an-app-with-facebook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dev-tip-how-to-register-an-app-with-facebook Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:59:09 +0000 http://blog.gisuser.com/?p=14039 So, you’ve been thinking about creating an app to run on facebook, so now what? Well, to begin you can take advantage of this great read from fbombmedia… enjoy! To make sure your app reaches its full potential, you need to take advantage of the features and promotional opportunities presented by popular social media platforms […]

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