Thursday, August 27. 2009

Steve Coast on Free Maps and More

Pocket Lint has an interview with the OpenStreetMap founder. And, a reminder, Coast will be among the speakers at this year's Location Intelligence Conference. We are offering some very affordable registration options just now...

TomTom, Garmin See Glass Half Full with PNDs

"In the summer period, we’ve seen quite a good development in demand. We’re becoming more optimistic."

- TomTom Chief Executive Officer Harold Goddijn

"We don’t believe that PND is dead. We think it’s going to continue to grow a couple more years through 2011 and possibly flatten out at that point as the GPS-enabled smart-phone market increases."

- Kevin Rauckman, chief financial officer of Garmin

TomTom already has an iPhone app, Garmin will not pursue one, but is offering its own branded nav phones.

- Bloomberg

Tuesday, August 25. 2009

Podcast: Government Data as Platform for Innovation

Three news stories this week address (1) federal govt technology change, (2) a city opening up its data and (3) a grant funded hyperlocal website being acquired. We think they are related and provide some pointers about what technologists, policians and citizens can expect regarding access to data, including geodata.

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Tuesday, August 18. 2009

MSNBC.com Acquires Adrian Holovaty's EveryBlock

The microlocal company and app grew out of a Knight Foundation grant that ended in June 2009 and grew into the epitome of a high tech hyperlocal website. It's framework is open source and uses many open source geospatial tools. The data is fed to the site in as automated a fashion as possible. Further, the team worked with many localities to make data more available to the site and thus other sites. EveryBlock now has sites for 15 cities, four in beta; it slowly and smartly added them a few at at a time over it's year and a half of existence. (Wow, is that all?)

There was no official statement about the terms. AOL bought another hyper local site, Patch, in June for $7 million.

PaidContent reports that the Washington Post is shutting down its hyperlocal standalone site, Loudon Extra.

- EveryBlock Blog

Podcast: The Free Business Model and Geospatial

How do you benefit from giving technology away? This week we look at a trend - all sorts of things (data, technology and Web services) are being offered for free across the technology landscape. It's happening in geospatial too. So, here's today's question: How will companies' free offerings compete with one another?

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Thursday, August 13. 2009

Register for the Location Intelligence Conference for $199...limited time offer

Attendees may register for the Location Intelligence Conference for just $199...a savings of $600. This is a limited time offer and the deadline is Aug. 24 or the first 200 registrants.

Our offer to you is simple. Register for the full conference for $199, which includes meals, workshops and our conference social event. You will need a special code to receive this special offer...it is listed below.

Use the code: db4e9281.

The Fine Print:

• The offer is good until August 24th and limited to the first 200 registrations.
• All payments must be made by credit card.
• No refunds. Registration is transferable to someone else.
• After August 24th or 200 registrants, attendees will pay the regular registration fee of $795 (still a great deal!).

Also, we will give you a $50 rebate to those attendees that stay two nights or more at the conference hotel, the Westin Westminster, just for showing us your hotel receipt.

We're putting a focus on cloud computing and our distinguished speakers will touch on this as well as their enterprise IT implementations that have helped their company become more "location intelligent." I hope you will join us in Westminster, Colorado, for #LI2009 (follow us on Twitter @locationintel) October 5-7. You can join our LinkedIn Group that now has over 1000 members.