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Tuesday, May 6. 2008

Was Autodesk the first public company to bring an open source geo product to market?

Autodesk's VP Lisa Campbell makes that statement in an interview at GIS Development.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Autodesk at 12:15 | Comment (1)

Seeking Alpha: Buy GeoEye Now!

Chris Fernandez says buy now, before earning are announced Friday. Why now?

- low valuation
- upcoming positive catalysts (earnings, DigitalGlobe IPO, launch later this year)

- Seeking Alpha

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Remote Sensing at 08:02 | Comments (0)

Realtor Buys out Mashup Technologists

The Realtor is John L. Scott Real Estate, one of the early implementers of Microsoft Virtual Earth for its business. (The company originally used ESRI and Google technology for its mapping.) Scott acquired nine person Real Tech, the consultancy that did the implementation work this week (press release, pdf, including Word markup...). Real Tech will become part of the in-house marketing team.

- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft, Geospatial Business at 07:29 | Comments (0)

Loopt and privacy, market and future plans

E-Commerce Times interviews Brian Knapp, VP of Corporate Communications for Loopt, a carrier-based location-enabled social networking offering. Tidbits of note:

- targeting students/young urban professionals (those tuned in to "happy hour")
- no business users to date (save for non-biz use)
- working with many orgs to offer much privacy support
- differentiators: carrier-centric, automatically updates locations
- futures: current Facebook app, BlackBerry version coming, "excited" about iPhone potential

- MacNewsWorld

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Social Networking at 06:52 | Comments (0)

More on Brightkite

ArsTechnica talked with founder and CEO, Martin May. Among the tidbits of note:

He used to work at Local Matters.

The business plan appears, down the road, to include anonymous maps of where users go - specifically to which businesses. Sounds like a "Dash" to track personal behavior. I understand how businesses would be interested in such data; how will Brightkite entice users to provide it? And provide it accurately?

For now locations are updated via Web or SMS.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Social Networking at 06:00 | Comments (0)

Old Poll, New Poll

Fifty readers answered our latest poll asking if you read corporate geoblogs.

Continue reading "Old Poll, New Poll"

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Poll at 06:00 | Comments (0)

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