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Archives for March 31, 2010

A Hotbed of Activity on GIS Alley in May

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There’s a flurry of activity planned for the first week of May in Norther Colorado (aka. GIS Alley). the following are a couple of hot events that any good Geo Technology practitioner should consider taking in…

Thursday, May 6th – Denver Tech Center Hyatt – 7800 East Tufts Avenue – Greenwood Village, CO (8AM to Noon)
“Better Ways to Design and Share Maps” – to learn more, follow this link and make sure to register – no charge:

Friday, May 7th – Fort Collins City Council Chambers – 300 LaPorte Avenue – Fort Collins, CO  (8AM to 3:30 PM)
“GIS Colorado Spring Meeting” – to learn more, follow this link – no charge:

Friday, May 7th – The Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant – 143 West Mountain – Fort Collins (4PM to 8PM??)
“Ignite Spatial Northern  Colorado” – to register for this free event, follow this link:
http://ignitespatialnoco.eventbrite.com/

Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps at #Where20

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Today at Where2.0 in San Jose, CA Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps took the stage to provide an update on Microsoft’s progress with Bing Maps. He announced the following:

  • Bing Maps World Tour App Launch: Just about every month, Bing Maps gets a makeover in the form of new map imagery for locations worldwide.  The World Tour map app brings these updates to life using the Bing Map Apps framework, Silverlight and Azure.
  • Bing Maps Oodle App Launch: Oodle.com, one of the fastest growing classifieds services is creating an app that will map rental housing on Bing Maps which will be available today.  The Oodle Rentals app will pull-in Oodle data, allowing users to look at various rental housing available from Oodle.com.
  • Bing Maps Foursquare App Launch: Last week at SES New York, we announced our partnership with foursquare and plans to roll out the foursquare Everywhere app on Bing Maps in the coming weeks. Today, the app will be live and ready for use.

More info can be found on the Bing Maps blog

Catch the Where2.0 livestream from O’reilly Media

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Catch the Where2.0 livestream from O’reilly Media
http://en.oreilly.com/where2010/public/content/livestream
Schedule for Wednesday, March 31st
9:00am – 9:20amThe Map as an Information Ecology Blaise Agüera y Arcas
9:20am – 9:40amChris Vein & Tim O’Reilly: City Data Chris Vein, Tim O’Reilly
9:40am – 9:55amParrot AR.Drone: Wireless, Video and Gaming Converge to Deliver an Augmented Reality Gaming Experience Martin Lefebure
9:55am – 10:00amVeriplace Location Aggregation Platform Tasso Roumeliotis
10:00am – 10:15amThe New Meaning of Mapping Michael Jones
11:00am – 11:25amLocation and Points of Control Tim O’Reilly, Michael Arrington
11:25am – 11:40amGeostreams Othman Laraki
11:40am – 11:55amOvi by Nokia Bringing Social and Local Together Michael Halbherr
11:55am – 12:10pmAdventures in Mobile Social 2.0: Twelve Months of foursquare Dennis Crowley
12:10pm – 12:30pmLaunch Pad

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SimpleGeo Comes Out at Where20 With ready-to-use location infrastructure

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You’ve heard all the Buzz recently about Boulder-based startup, SimpleGeo – think ready-to-use location infrastructure. The team scored VC funding a few months back and since then has built a “Dream-Team” of Geo developers, technologists and visionaries. Well, today in San Jose the company is lifting the lid off their business model and announcing SimpleGeo to World along with an impressive lineup of partners from the location services, geospatial, and mobile-social technology communities.

About SimpleGeo… SimpleGeo has raised over $1.5 million seed round funding to date, led by First Round Capital and angel investors including Ron Conway, Kevin Rose, Chris Sacca and Shawn Fanning. Founded by Socialthing founder Matt Galligan and former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump, the company has already generated significant industry buzz through the launch of Vicarious.ly, a sample app that uses a visual representation of real-time location-based stream of information to showcase the company’s technology and data. Vicarious.ly also highlights the company’s strong application partners, including BlockChalk, Brightkite, Bump Technologies, Flickr, Fwix, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter.  Matt Galligan, co-founder and CEO of SimpleGeo. “SimpleGeo is at the nexus of location technology, providing all of the tools and data necessary for developers to make their apps location-aware in a matter of minutes.” See details in this PR

A few Favorite Tweets from the #Where20 Twitter Stream

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There’s no question that following all the Twitter activity from Where2.0 this week in San Jose is informative and fun as well! The following are just a few of the interesting tweets to float by the #Where20 hashtag stream over the past several hours:

  • mattpriour: #where20 Kinda disapointed that the @pwramsey / @mjmalone RDBMS v NoSQL smackdown was so cordial, expected some kind of ruckus
  • @timoreilly: Hadn’t realized that Android has already almost overtaken iPhone in terms of mobile web ad impressions http://bit.ly/dlXfMt
  • @peteskomoroch: Map of US Twitter users by county, built for #where20 using Hadoop & MTurk (dynamic SVG in Safari) http://bit.ly/agmIdv
  • Robert Scoble: Blog: Are location geeks at @where20 event off the path to real money? http://bit.ly/aydDUF
  • @vicchi: “if you’re not part of the solution then there’s money to be made in prolonging the problem”
  • @DiAnnEisnor: Omg #where20 is like carnival for me map geek bliss
  • @vicchi: “nothing confuses a geek more than a user saying we want a simple solution”
  • Can’t make #Where20 for morning keynotes Wed/Thurs? Livestream will be available (after you register): http://oreil.ly/bcWRpV
  • @mager: Excited for SimpleGeo’s launch tomorrow
  • This is the best week for us online mapping geeks, as #Where20 is ongoing and #WhereCamp is upcoming
  • @lbszone Trust ignite to result in the #chicken hashtag trending on Twitter!

Follow the stream HERE

deCarta and SimpleGeo Partner on Location-Based Services

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Following the #Where20 hashtag on Twitter will definitely reveal to you that SimpleGeo is a company that is indeed getting loads of attention at the event! Word is already out on the street regrding the Boulder-based startup company’s plans and official roll-out of their service will hit today – watch GISuser for details of that! One company that has penned a partnership with SimpleGeo is deCarta. SimpleGeo and deCarta announced a partnership that will allow location-based application developers to use deCarta’s maps and search technologies to easily access and display geospatial data stored in the SimpleGeo Storage Engine. Customers will be able to define a point, a line or a complex area on a map, then retrieve data relevant to that area from SimpleGeo’s rich data layers.  See more details on the deal HERE

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