Wednesday, 14. June 2006, 01:15:13
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just a quick reminder that if you're visiting here and getting the low-down on what's taking place today at Where 2.0 in San Jose then you'll likley also be interested in a few more pics. I've uploaded a number of photos via my handy Nokia 6682 to the GIsusr flickr -- sorry there's not more but data ain't cheap and I forgot my data cable again (crap!). Adding to that, Bluetooth connectivity on my notebook is crapping out as well.. nice! Anyway, check out
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser/ for photos from the show, images from last night's pixie hunt and some pics from the visit to googleplex to take in the google geo developer day. And for a whakin pant-load of images fromm Where 2.0 see the "official"
Where 2.0 flickr blog 
Tuesday, 13. June 2006, 21:48:54
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People sharing local knowledge... this is the driving force behind a number of applications and businesses. A panel discussion this afternoon addressed some of the issues facing developers of these applications. the revenue model still seems to be somewhat unclear.. mind-you, this is the case for most web-based businesses. The advertising revenue model is the focus of most of the popular applications but is this realistic in the long run? Commercial or member-only premium services are also being considered by some, although this is clearly down the road. Flickr has managed to penetrate this hurdle, however, will the developers of the hundreds or thousands of social networking mashups have a similar success? I know I'm a little more comfortable giving my credit card to Yahoo! than i am to a small developer running out of a basement office. An interesting question was posed... what if sommeone posts a the address of a celebrity and the complaints start rolling in? One response was that we would wait for an email to come in and then remove the point based on the request. So, what if the company starts getting 5,000 email complaints per day... sureley this response is not viable in the long-run! Another area of concern is how is the battle against spam and abuse being handled? The panelists did not have many experiences to date involving spam and once again are handling on an as-needed basis or letting the community police the site... once again, is this a viable solution in the long-run? the developer of 43places.com mentioned a "plpaying dead" solution where the spammer is led to believe that he has succeeded... not a bad solution! One site uses "cheers" and a pay it forward style system. For example, you can’t comment until you yourself receive some cheers and positive feedback from others... again, a decent idea. Otherwise, the other way of addressing spam is requiring users to create a login or user profile which has worked quite well to date. Of note, panelists were representing the following social networking applications:
flagr.com, platial.com, 43things.com, and zopto.com.
Of note, some Suggested sites we heard about today:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/http://www.platial.com/splashhttp://www.43places.com/http://www.wayfaring.com/http://www.skyhookwireless.com/http://www.flagr.comhttp://www.ning.com/
Tuesday, 13. June 2006, 18:47:13
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an interesting 10 minute session about Platial (see www.platial.com) was just presented by Di-Ann Eisnor. What is it? A user created atlas enabling people to share their places fromm anywhere in the World. Currently about 200,000 places and 5000 custome maps and 60 grassroots content providers. Most popular is the Lost TV m... but there's thousands of others.
Most popular feature is sharing local information… example a NY based DJ who stores his places and spaces, for example, where were you on 9-11? It’s a fun app but the sharing is what really makes it cool and interesting. Add images, video, comments, and a new feature… been there!
New yesterday at Platial… a new aggregator where you can submit and share all your local feeds. See
http://www.platial.com - note: next on the stage, another photo sharing social app from 43places.com... check that one out too!
Tuesday, 13. June 2006, 18:06:22
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More on last nights Pixie hunt... sorry for the delay but I was a bit burnt out after a long day last night and didn't really comment too much on the Oixie hunt scavenger hunt. The event was the first official test of a cool location-enabled mobile application developed at Microsoft. Carved up into about 8 groups, we all set out on a mission to geo-locate and capture images of some weird things.. including a tatoo from a stranger, a nose piercinng, eating sushi, doing a shot with a stranger, yadayada. The application we used conveniently listed our tasks numerically and as we got to a location we would select the task, click the "take a photo" option, capture our image and upload to the flickr blog where it was available for all other teams to see and even add some "smack" on. Unfortunately we got started a bit late and lost our sunlight... unfortuantely the camera phones didn't have a flash and the resultinng pictures where a little dark... no biggeee I guess but something to try and avoind next time. We really didn't use the GPS functionality too much, although the teams that did likely scored the best results. I have no doubt that the Pixie Hunt applisation could be received very favorable by carriers and would be a nice third party app to include on a deck. You can see all the photos for yourself at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/pixie-where --- oh, one last hting, if you want more news from Where 2.0 see
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/where_20
