Foursquare Everywhere, announced earlier this year, puts Foursquare content on Bing Maps. It's now available. And, CEO Dennis Crowley said the company will put some energy into using people's future location rather than their current one in future features per GigaOM.
Fwix updated its API to allow developers to to pull in names, locations and web content about places.
Pete Warden and Alasdair Allen reported at the event (and on O'Reilly Radar) that iPads and 3G iPhones have stored their locations in an internal, unencrypted file. No word from Apple on why. The FCC and Congress are already on the war path against Apple per Politico.
Google announced Google Earth Builder, a cloud platform for storage and data "grooming" accessible via Google Earth clients. Joe Francica attended the press event and has details at Directions Magazine.
Loopt introduced Qs, its play at real-time, local micro-reviews, and polls. (press release)
UScapeIt, from Everyscape, is an app to produce and share panoramas using an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad 2 — and it's free per the Boston Globe.
Microsoft announced Read/Write World hosted by Bing and introduced on the Bing Maps Blog.
Informally, it’s the magic of:
- Seeing your photos automatically connected to others;
- Being able to simply create immersive experiences from your or your friends photos, videos, and panoramas;
- “Fixing” the world, when the official imagery of your street is out of date;
- Visually mapping your business, your favorite park, or your real estate for everyone to see;
- Understanding the emergent information from the density and tagging of media.
SimpleGeo announced on its blog the licensing of its Places database:
Today we’d like to announce that we’re making the data in our Places product public using the Creative Commons Zero, or “No Copyright”.
