Garmin gets even more press for their announcement:

Garmin International Inc. has published some APIs for connecting to its GPS devices, making it easier for Web developers to write applications that use information about where consumers are located, the company announced Tuesday.

Here is some coverage for exhibitor Skyhook in the form of a nice piece in Wireless Week:

Skyhook Wireless is offering an update to its Loki product that uses Wi-Fi to determine location. The announcement was made at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week.

GISuser also had a nice story on small start up FatDoor, a Where 2.0 exhibitor:

Today at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Fatdoor™ (www.Fatdoor.com), a new community networking Web site dedicated to helping people get to know their neighbors, launched its service in the San Francisco Bay Area

Maria has graciously translated some of the news coming from Where 2.0, specifically the Google announcement:

Google Earth con sonido, ahora sin interrogantes

Another article regarding Google’s news from Where 2.0. This time from Rachel Rosmarin with Forbes:

Window shopping may never be the same. Google, Microsoft and a slew of start-up mapping technology companies launched applications

The New York Times and C/Net reported on what’s happening here at Where:

Google launched a new feature on its mapping service on Tuesday that allows people to see panoramic views of streets and buildings.

It’s always great to see news from one of our events being
featured on Slashdot:

Today at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference Google unveiled two new map features. An O’Reilly blogger describes Street View, which uses 360-degree street-level video from Immersive Media to enable neighborhood walk-throughs in (for now) a few selected areas.

TechCrunch covers news from Where 2.0:

Google has will be announcing a new 360 streetside view for Google maps at Where 2.0 today, says O’Reily Radar. The 360 views are a better version of Amazon’s A9 static panoramas. Google’s views let users virtually stand in the middle of any street, able to look in a full circle around the location, giving a better feel of the place you’ll be going. It will reportedly be available in Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.

Brady Forrest is not only hosting Where 2.0, he’s finding time to cover the news as well. Here is what the Program Chair had to say about Microsoft’s offerings:

Microsoft’s Erik Jorgensen gave a really well-recieved talk today at the Where 2.0 conference.

Here is a nice article that discusses what users actually want:

The most frequent request — cited by 33% of respondents — was a demand for improved scalability.

More news about Google, this time from the United Kingdom’s M&C tech writer Steve Ragan:

At the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, yesterday, John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps, announced some new features for Google Maps that offer a whole new perspective on search

Here is some coverage for Skyhook on their latest offering:

Skyhook Wireless, Inc. announced at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference Loki 2.0, the platform for delivering auto-location awareness to the geoweb.

PC World covered the Where 2.0 Conference, and filed the following story:

Google has been making a lot of noise for years, but until yesterday the company’s products were silent

MapQuest garners a nice story in GISuser Magazine:

MapQuest Business Solutions, today announced the beta launch of a new API based on the Adober ActionScriptT language. The latest API option within MapQuest’s AdvantageT API, allows developers to use a robust toolset with the added benefits of ActionScript 3.0.

More news from Where 2.0, this time featuring sponsor/exhibitor Garmin:

Garmin and MapQuest want others to share the geospatial wealth.

Blogger Rusty Brick reports on releases at Where 2.0:

A ton of mapping news came out yesterday. Search Engine Land has a great overview of ma lot of the ones that apply to the search engines.

It’s nice to see Where 2.0 sponsors/exhibitors garnering news. Here’s some press regarding
Leica Geosystems:

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the Beta release of Leica TITAN and launch of the Leica TITAN Network. Empowered by a 3D virtual globe, this dynamic online solution allows users and communities to share geospatial and location-based content in a single, secure environment.

Frank Taylor reports on the applications announvced at Where 2.0:

Already people are beginning to notice interesting sights and giving tips for the new StreetView imagery found in Google Maps

Google Earth is a popular news story today, the day after John Hanke’s presentation at Where. Here’s is what
InternetNews reported:

Google said it will refresh its Google Earth/Google Maps strategy at the Where 2.0 conference here this afternoon.

The San Jose Mercury News reports on what Google Earth presented at Where:

“Google wants you” to help it win the mapping war, John Hanke, the director of Google Earth and Google Maps, told a crowd of location-obsessed technologists Tuesday at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose.

O’Reilly’s own Nat Torkington reports on new developments coming out of technology announced
at Where 2.0:

In the wake of the APIs announced at Where 2.0, we have a flood of new map hacks.

Glenn is meeting and greeting all sorts of interesting folks at the show and had this to say about another application:

“Wow.. another new launch today from Where.. this time its popular real estate resource Trulia who’ve added truliahindsight”

Show exhibitor and sponsor Mapquest announced the following news today at Where 2.0:

“Advanced Offering Provides Developers Additional Choice and Control within Advantage API”

Justin thinks that perhaps no one is listening (see the title of the blog). We are, and want to share
with you what he had to say about this year’s event:

Now that I am home and have managed to sleep a bit I have been thinking about my overall experience at Railsconf 2007.

This blog mentions O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference:

“If you are involved at all with content, media or
publishing of some kind, you should check out the TOC Conference being
held June 18-20 in San Jose, CA.”

Chris Anderson is a speaker schedule to present at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference. He leaks some
news ahead of time:

“I’ve got a new start-up/sideproject that will be decloaking on May 31st.”

Program Chair Brady Forrest had this to say about exhibitor Where:

“The importance of attaching a machine readable location to you data is increasing and is getting easier.”

Artur Bergman reports on what Mapquest has going here at Where 2.0:

Mapquest is beta launching a brand new API for Actionscript, it is the first available native API for Flash and Apollo. It enables complex rich applications with quickly rendered, points and applications.

Tim had a few things to say today about one of the sessions at the upcoming OSCON conference:

“I just came across this very interesting session in the OSCON schedule, entitled Programming for Low Power Usage.”

Tim had a few things to say today about one of the sessions at the upcoming Energy Innovation conference:

“I just came across this very interesting session in the OSCON schedule, entitled Programming for Low Power Usage.”

Where 2.0 exhibitor and sponsor Leica Geosystems announced the following today:

“Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the Beta release of Leica TITAN and launch of the Leica TITAN Network.”

Conference exhibitor Fatdoor announced the following news today at the Where 2.0 Conference:

Fatdoor is now available in the San Francisco BayArea

San Jose, CA — May 28, 2007 — Today at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Fatdoor™ (www.Fatdoor.com), a new community networking Web site dedicated to helping people get to know their neighbors, launched its service in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Gold Sponsor Garmin is the first out of the gate with news at Where 2.0. For complete release details read their release at:

Garmin® Publishes API Library and Opens Communication Between Third Party Websites and Garmin GPS Devices

Brady is excited about this application of Google’s technology, for details, read his blog:

“This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition.”

A nice piece in Directions Magazine on making applications business ready:

“The thrust of the program for the 2007 conference will answer the question, ‘Where’s the value?’”

We’re always pleased to have Wired News at O’Reilly conferences, here is some news from Michael Calore:

“On Tuesday, May 29, San Jose, California becomes ground zero for geodata geekery as the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference gets underway. “

Glenn blogs in the GIS space and had this to say for his first day at Where:

“Recall virtual GIS from Leica in 1996… delivering 3D content over the web.”

Blogger Katie is here at Where 2.0 this week and had the following to say regarding Loki:

“We’ve been complaining to Skyhook Wireless CEO Ted Morgan about the company’s lack of Mac and mobile compatibility for its Loki location-based browser download for awhile. Well, we’ll stop bitching now.”

Google has lots of news planned for Where, here is one story relating to Stanford:

“Google to license Stanford’s Stanley tech, enhance maps”

Program Chair and Radar Blogger Brady Forrest recently blogged about events at Where:

Trends of Online Mapping Portals

Information Week, expected to attend Where 2.0, reported on news before the conference:

Geocommons Makes…

Blogger Garett Rogers is discussing Google Earth’s presence at Where 2.0:

Google Earth to announce…

Obie had this to say about the keynote auditorium for the opening Keynote here at RailsConf:
Beholding 1600 people in the auditorium was truly awe-inspiring.

Mr. Richardson gushes about the dignitaries at RailsConf:
This conference is huge… there are 1,600 Rails coders here