Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we’ve entered “the third movement of information” during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real estate oriented audience. In 1998 we saw the introduction of the blog, he noted. In 2006 we saw the introduction of Facebook Fan Pages. Now we have Foursquare.

Location-based services go well beyond who’s mayor of a location, although that is very important, Scoble noted. Already, location-based services and mobile are easily integrated into people’s urban lives. Scoble listed a wide range of LBS-infused services that he theoretically uses on a daily basis, including Glimpse, Trapster, Google Maps, Plancast, Goby, Google Earth, Gowalla, WHURR, TripIt, Craigslist and Taxi Magic.

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Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we’ve entered “the third movement of information” during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real estate oriented audience. In 1998 we saw the introduction of the blog, he noted. In 2006 we saw the introduction of Facebook Fan Pages. Now we have Foursquare.

Location-based services go well beyond who’s mayor of a location, although that is very important, Scoble noted. Already, location-based services and mobile are easily integrated into people’s urban lives. Scoble listed a wide range of LBS-infused services that he theoretically uses on a daily basis, including Glimpse, Trapster, Google Maps, Plancast, Goby, Google Earth, Gowalla, WHURR, TripIt, Craigslist and Taxi Magic.

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Craigslist has been taking a beating from law enforcement officials over its adult ads and other subjects, but Newmark says that the complaints are not really making much of an impact. “People like to manufacture controversy,” he says. But Craigslist remains both “a business and a community service.”

In fact, the service has generally made strides in most areas, thanks in part to the addition of more customer service employees. The service now has 35 employees.

The most complaints are in New York, due to abuses of apartment listings. But “there has been a big improvement. It is better than it was five years ago,” says Newmark, who also answered personal questions and discussed government issues. In answer to an audience question, he noted that he did not find his girl friend on Craigslist. He also says that a pre-nup between them is the “subject of negotiation.”

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