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Monday, September 20, 2010

WeePlaces Launches Geoprofiles

I wrote about WeePlaces.com back in August. If offered a way to track your check-ins and routes on OpenStreetMap. I hadn’t heard anymore about it. Eric Wu, the founder, let me know of the company’s (Movity) latest effort, Geoprofiles. 

So you have 150 checkins and 3 badges.  Now what?

Checking in for badges, points, or deals is fun and driving growth.  But checkins are a record of experiences and activities.  Weeplaces makes use of this data by creating geoprofiles, a personal page of these experiences.  Geoprofiles enable users to:

1.  Visualize their location history and discover trends.
2.  Group, annotate, and share checkins (coffee shops visited in the Mission, or weekend trip to NYC).
3.  Connect with friends and view the places they’ve been.

Geoprofiles are a new way to use and find value with checkins.  Our greater vision is that geoprofiles become a feed of your location life, serving as a storage and organizational tool for all geodata (checkins, pictures, descriptions, tweets, comments).

Last, we are launching integrations with Facebook Places and Gowalla, allowing users to create and view geoprofiles across platforms. 

Basically, it’s just the next iteration of Weeplaces. You can view Wu’s place profile as a sample. Fourquare’s CEO told VentureBeat: “We’ll do this eventually.”

by Adena Schutzberg on 09/20 at 06:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
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