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Tagged: yahoo, augmented reality

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Yahoo has made some changes and is looking for $$$ from Koprol, the Indonesia-based location-based social network it acquired last year. (APB coverage).

Today, the local location-based social network Koprol rolls out their new revamped version of the site but it’s currently not available as your default look. In order to see the #newkoprol, you’d have to go to new.koprol.com and use it there. The Yahoo company also start using promoted hashtags as a way to make money where advertisers can promote their content inside the service.

Asian Correspondent

Is it me or are we beginning to scratch the bottom of the barrel for LBS apps? Case in point Windows Phone app Travelnapp. You set it to wake you up when you reach a certain location. It uses GPS, so per the article, it works underground. I'm skeptical of that claim. I'm all for student developed apps (James Mundy, a Physics student at Sheffield University build it) but this seems to me to have a limited audience.

Ubergizmo

Signapore's AppVenture Challenge was organised by the Mobile Alliance and supported by the Infocomm Development Authority. The Challenge was created to support the growing need for world-class developers in Singapore and serves to develop talent within the community, by providing a platform for any individuals or groups interested to hone their skills at mobile apps development. As part of the AppVenture Challenge, an award was created to recognise the Best Application developed using Government Data. 

                                 A. Company Category

First Place - ShowNearby
Second Place - WeatherLah
Third Place - Show Timezz
Best Government App : ShowNearby
B. Individual/Student Category

First Place - Parks "Live"
Second Place - Sg Parking
Third Place - mHealth
Best Government App : BeAMinister
 

ShowNearby is a mapping application that combines data from the government and other sources. ShowNearby provides users with points-of-interest information, telling them the locations of the nearest amenities and places of interest from their current location. Users can more than 20 amenities and places of interest such as restaurants, bus interchanges and dental clinics. 

Parks “Live” allows park visitors to explore Singapore’s Pasir Ris Park using augmented reality. The augmented reality function provides park visitors with exact directions and distances to park attractions and amenities such as restrooms, shelters and barbecue pits.

- Singpore Gov News

- App Gallery
 

by Adena Schutzberg on 07/05 at 05:15 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Last week Microsoft used a talk at TED to unveil some new features for its Bing Maps platform. Goodies included slicker zooming, live georeferenced video feeds, integration of Flickr photos, Worldwide Telescope….a sort of “kitchen sink” of eye candy. But of course it’s only eye candy until professional and consumer focused developers tune it to solve specific problems for work and play. Our editors share what impressed them and consider how this enhanced platform might be used.

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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/16 at 01:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

The patent app is titled Virtual Notes in a Reality Overlay and describes the idea of notes left at a location “for you” by your friends - combined with advertising and a few other things including ” social graph analysis, permissioning, expiration dates, contextual advertising and more. It’s not just text notes, it includes methods of augmented reality with photos, videos and more.”

Remember it was filed in July 2008, so much of this stuff, individually, already exists in some apps.

- ReadWrite Web

by Adena Schutzberg on 02/03 at 07:57 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share
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