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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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

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

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

Remote Sensing for Slimy Pools in Northern California

Aerial imagery will be used to track neglected pools and ponds in Santa Clara County in the coming weeks. It’s part of Vector Control, aka urban mosquito control, to prevent the spread of West Nile Virus. Planes start flying today. No word on if the imagery is reviewed manually or processed, but this is the third year it’s been done. If a slimy pool/pond is found, owners are encouraged by the county to clean them up. The public responds well and to date the $1000/day fine has not been imposed.

- NBC 11