Comments on: Five location-based services to watch in 2009

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By: Andrew J Scott

Andrew J Scott — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:13:40 +0000

What no http://www.Rummble.com ?!

By: Shaili

Shaili — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:54 +0000

Pls check out www.myGeoDiary.com by Abaqus Inc. It is a SaaS based LBS social app platform which provides users & business customers with a platform to record, semantically organize, annotate with rich media & then share their geodata across any web app using a variety of positioning devices (phones, PNDs, CE gps loggers etc.).

(p.s. disclosure: I work at Abaqus)

By: Ric Ferraro

Ric Ferraro — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:38:12 +0000

Next week, GeoMe is releasing its first public beta (sign up on www.geo-me.com)

The difference between GeoMe and other MSNs and LBSs is that we don't track users and that we automatically detect your location through GPS or CellID.

The startups in this sector all agree that there are some elephants in the room, such as Facebook, and fighting them head on is a suicidal strategy.

GeoMe will integrate with the main social networks like Facebook and Twitter but offer something unique on mobile.

Check it out.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:03:24 +0000

Fire Eagle not count?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:54:27 +0000

I've definitely noticed a lot of complaints from Brightkite users that no one they know is on it, so it's extremely boring!!

This is, from what I see, where zhiing excels. You don't need to join another social network that no one is a part of, and you can send a zhiing to anyone. Simply taking out the hassle makes zhiing better.

By: Shelia

Shelia — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:12:47 +0000

I will give a shout out to zhiing as well – I've been using it for about 3 weeks
and it's awesome. Quick, right to the point no special logins. Works well
from your computer browser too.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:00:57 +0000

Mexens Technology is dead in the water. Their cell tower data points as few and far between as being encroached upon by open source solutions.

Additionally their service cost structure is not very feesable and their current patent portfolio is relatively trivial.

By: Marcello

Marcello — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:10:27 +0000

Today no one is using only one social network, but on our laptops and desktops we have the advantage that we use the same application for all of them: a web browser.
When users will realize that location-based social mapping capabilities cannot be provided through a mobile web browser, but require that several applications are installed on their phone, they will ask to have a social mapping client able to interact with multiple networks.
The effort to develop such a client is huge and only big companies such as facebook, Nokia, google, Yahoo!, Twitter, MySpace, etc. can fund it.
Unfortunately I think they have no interest in developing an open client. In fact they are developing their own mobile clients: Google Maps Mobile, Yahoo Go!, Nokia Maps, Google Earth for iPhone, Twitter for iPhone, facebook for Blackberry, etc.
I believe the only way to have an Open Social Mapping Client is via Open Source development to provide:
- Open support for multiple map servers
- Open support to show multiple layers of information on the map from different sources
- Open support to capture and send geo-referenced content (video, photo, text) to multiple social media services
- Open support to location-based instant messaging
- Social Mapping capabilities
Bluemapia Mobile, (http://www.bluemapia.com/blog/?page_id=8 ) my open source project , could be a starting point and I’m trying to put together a community of people interested in giving support to this idea.

Marcello Ferrero
marcello[at]bluemapia[dot]com

By: Mike_at_Wanna_Develop_COM

Mike_at_Wanna_Develop_COM — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:06:04 +0000

Citysense should expand to more places…

2009 will be a big year and that's for sure for all this companies.

By: Jean-François

Jean-François — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:17:16 +0000

Surprise not seeing Plazes in the list !

By: raegan

raegan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:37:13 +0000

I'll give a nod to zhiing as well.

Besides sending my location from where I'm at, it's great for sending locations from the desktop to my phone with their browser add-on. What I love is that all the address get the little rings next them and in one click I can send, save, forward and reply to the zhiing messages which makes sharing locations easy, no social network to deal with or the need to invite friends.

By: victor lund

victor lund — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:22:40 +0000

zhiing raised $1 MM Series A 12 months ago and is currently in the process of raising a $3.6MM series B.

By: victor lund

victor lund — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:21:10 +0000

Hey, you forgot zhiing! Since launching on the app store 4 weeks ago, we have become the favorite LBS application for Location Messaging – send a message to a friend and they will know where you are. It is integrated with google maps on the iphone, so you can instantly get directions.

P.S. Unlike many of the services you mention here, zhiing works on iphone and Blackberry and will launch for Nokia, Windows Mobile and Android in January – today anyone can receive a location message from a zhiinger