Trulia most folks have likely heard of; the company wants to making finding a residence easier with data and maps: Movity aggregates the geodata from a variety of sources and uses it to provide rich insights into any location. Movity is still in beta and does sort of the same thing, with a focus on more kinds of data (“geo-data, local comments, conversations, safety
stats, demographics, noise”) but also with a focus on maps and visualization. One of the folks is from cartography/design superstar Stamen Designs and the company is probably best know for WeePlaces.com, which I’ve mentioned before (1,2). It’s business model: advertising.
With the acquisition Trulia is moving to downtown San Francisco (so the staff can go to all those LBS conferences, no doubt!)
- Trulia Blog (Exactly no comments to the post as of 7:30 am EST, though this was announced yesterday. I’m not sure if folks don’t care, don’t understand or are busy with the holidays…)
- SF Business Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 06:16 AM |
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July saw more than its share of acquisitions in the geospatial domain. Among the players involved were large companies with household names like Nokia and Facebook, and smaller ones only known in tighter circles, including NextStop and Photo Science. Our editors review the deals and offer predictions on their success.
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This week our editors turn their attention to branding in the geospatial world, in particular how companies position their #1 and #2 and perhaps #3 offerings in several categories of geospatial offerings. How are the #2s doing from a branding perspective? In short, there is room for improvement. Editor in Chief Joe Francica and Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg examine the branding challenges in categories like GIS software, worldwide data, LBS gaming, weather and generic locators.
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Late last week Nokia announced it acquired MetaCarta, a company that could organize unstructured text by teasing out location information within. MetaCarta served government, oil and gas and media clients, so what exactly will mobile services and hardware provider Nokia do with it?
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