Thursday, April 26. 2007

New at Directions Magazine

Posted today at Directions Magazine:

- Oracle XE and Geospatial Information Systems
- Location Intelligence 2007 Takeaways

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Tuesday, April 24. 2007

Podcast: What We learned at Location Intelligence 2007

We focus in on two of the presentations at last week's Location Intelligence Conference. One, by Yahoo's Frazier Miller, director of product management for Yahoo Local, gave a surprising set of numbers about the potential size of teh local search marketplace. The second, from SiRF's Kanwar Chadha, Founder and Vice President of Marketing, highlighted how we've barely begun to realize the scope of location in mobile devices.

The podcast is 14 minutes long (< 6 Mb) and was recorded on April 20, 2007.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Yahoo, Location Intelligence, Directions on the News Podcast, LI 2007, Location Intelligence 2007, Local Search at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, March 27. 2007

Podcast: Why are businesses not yet embracing geospatial mashups?

An InformationWeek survey reveals that just 7% of businesses surveyed are using mashups. Is that true for geospatial mashups? Is it true, as Matt Brown, an analyst at Forrester Research suggests, that "Businesses have bigger priorities at the moment than worrying how to mash up logistical data or workforce information into a mapping app?" This week we look at why businesses are slow on the uptake with regard to mashups, and perhaps geospatial and what it might take to get them involved.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Oracle, Yahoo, GPS, Standards, Location Intelligence, Directions on the News Podcast, LI 2007 at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, March 21. 2007

Quote of the Week

"Local search is the second most popular activity other than e-mail."

Safa Rashtchy, sr. research analyst, Internet media and marketing, managing director for Piper Jaffray in his keynote at the Kelsey Group's Drilling Down on Local '07 event. I can say our readers echo that sentiment: business opportunities of local search is a "hot topic" for upcoming LI Conference.

- ClickZ

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Location Intelligence, LI 2007, Local Search at 08:37 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, March 12. 2007

SiRF and Location Intelligence

Today I wanted to get the word out that Kanwar Chadha, Founder of SiRF Technology will be the keynote speaker at our Location Intelligence Conference in April. SiRF, as a leading GPS chip set manufacturer, is found in many mobile devices (MapPoint 2006, Magellan Roadmate, Garmin devices, etc.). Chadha is also not just another "EE." He has a truly visionary approach about bringing location-based technology to the masses. He spells out his vision and the challenges for GPS in a position paper he did a few years ago (PDF download). I had a chance to sit down with him a few weeks ago and his vision extends beyond today's current class of products.

Posted by Joe Francica in LBS, GPS, Location Intelligence, LI 2007 at 12:26 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, February 20. 2007

Location Intelligence Conference Early Registration Closes Thursday

Early registration for the 2007 Location Intelligence Conference (save $200) ends Thursday.

Among the highlights:

Workshops: Introduction to Neogeography, Sharing Maps Through Interoperable Open Source Applications, and others from Microsoft, Google, OGC, ESRI, MapQuest

Sessions: Emerging Trends in Enterprise Location Solutions, Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Issues, Bad Data, Missing Metadata and other Geospatial Data Tribulations, From Mashups to Money, The Business Opportunities of Local Search

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LI 2007 at 13:23 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |