That's down to Facebook's scale of half a billion people, the public's discomfort with the commercial uses of their data (at least for those who care to think about it) and the uniquely risky implications of location services that go wrong.
This will always limit the "socialness" of your service, but it seems to be a requirement giving the privacy implications of location (though another location network, BrightKite, recently moved to be more asymmetric).
Beyond this "whoa" potential, though, the privacy implications of location-based capabilities are hair-raising, says Roger Entener, a mobile-phone analyst at the Yankee Group.
Scholars have proposed theories about the implications of the location, including that the location may have some connection to religious practices involving springs, bogs, or swamps in Norse paganism, and that it may be connected to the goddess Sága's watery location Sökkvabekkr.
Other additions include reminders about the safety implications of sharing location data, about the impression given by those we follow or befriend on social networks, and about the impact of spreading unconfirmed rumours, especially in breaking news situations.
A case study based on the existing RWIS network in the province of Ontario was conducted to illustrate the major features of the proposed method and evaluate the implications of alternative location selection criteria.
S100A4 is a metastasis-associated protein which has been linked to multiple cellular events, and has been identified extracellularly, in the cytoplasm and in the nucleus of tumor cells; however, the biological implications of subcellular location are unknown.
Last month a congressional subcommittee held a hearing into the implications of commercial location-based services' growth.
In trying to determine where to place its European subsidiary, the top management of one company completely ignored a decision tree analysis that showed careful consideration of the financial implications of possible locations.
These observations illustrate the functional implication of PrPC location in a subtype of lipid rafts, the caveolae, involved in cell signaling and capable of internalizing membrane receptors.
