On Sunday at SXSW, GeoLoqi and Factual announced a partnership that gives GeoLoqui customers access to Factual’s immense location database and significantly extends Geoloqi’s data and storage capabilities.
- press release
C|net interviews Amber Case, CEO of Geoloqi, the latest darling geo company at SXSW. She gave the keynote. I'm not hearing anything new. DId I miss something?
- C|net
RWW interviews her too and gets at what see saw as main issues with previous LBS plays:
She concluded that the big issues were battery life, setting up the logic for the geofences to trigger, and making a visual editor.
Really? Fixing those doesn't seem revolutionary to me. She gots on to suggest the big news is using location to trigger action (like a check in) automatically.
- RWW
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by Adena Schutzberg on 03/13 at 02:59 AM |
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The closing of Gowalla comes three months after the announcement of its acquistion by Facebook and three years after its launch at SXSW in 2009.
- The Next Web
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/12 at 03:00 AM |
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Loopt was an early LBS provider (2005 launch, Sam Altman, Founder). Green Dot sells pre-paid debit cards. Green Dot plans to use use Loopt and its patents "to develop mobile wallet and payment services." Green Dot will pay $43.4 million in cash; the deal is expected to close by the first quarter of this year.
It's a tough time to be an LBS only type company as this acquistion, among a string of them of late, suggests.
- GigaOm
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/09 at 06:21 AM |
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... INTRO at least has a unique take on the location-based social introductions market. Unlike the majority of this year’s crop of location-based networking apps, INTRO’s angle is business introductions. Built on top of LinkedIn, the app lets you specify who you’re looking to meet by both industry and profession, then enables you to make that connection.
Is that enough to give it legs? I'm guessing no.
- TechCrunch
Among the other LBS apps to watch (not all new) at SXSW
Localmind is a location-based Q&A platform. It lets users ask questions related to specific locations to other users who are actually at those locations.
Sonar uses Foursquare, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook data to tell you who is nearby and how you’re connected.
Both services [
Zaarly and
Taskrabbit] are location-based, mobile marketplaces. You can use them to find people who will run your errands — quite a useful trick when you’re frantically running between panels and parties.
Banjo connects to your Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and Gowalla accounts and sends you a push notification when any of your friends are nearby.
The only non-LBS one in this from Mashable is about comsuing photos. Sounds like a really dull year for LBS at SXSW!
There's of course a map of all the parties. I see Zaarly on the map but no other big LBS players hosting parties.
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/09 at 06:03 AM |
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