Renaud Euvrard reports on the conference and maps Paris with Google Maps.
Where 2.0 Conference News
Where 2.0 brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into the location-based technology frontier.
Glenn Latham reports on his experiences and observations at Where 2.0, including some of his favorite job titles.
TechCrunch picked up on Frank Taylor’s post about the coolest things he saw at Where 2.0, including this demo from Gold sponsor Earthscape:
Where 2.0 happened May 12-14 at the San Francisco Airport Marriot just south of the city. This annual event, now in its 4th year, is a strange mix of grassroots geo-enthusiasts and entrepreneurial geo-hackers. Where 2.0 is primarily a developer’s conference, so the majority of time and certainly the focus was on tools and how they function and less on how these tools are being used. (Or not being used. For the most part, location apps are in beta.) There was definitely the Field of Dream feeling “build it and they will come.” The exceptions were the tools and apps in the social activism thread.
Michael Bauer provides a thoughtful and detailed summary on this year’s conference:
A number of other notable presentations included Sam Altman at Loopt, the provider of a mobile location client for different devices and carriers noted their growth, focus on privacy, and the move towards subscription models for mobile location. Sean Gorman from FortiusOne provided an update on the GeoCommons and how its interacting with FreeBase, OpenLocation, and MapMixer. Mok Oh from Everyscape presented looking at the inside of spaces like malls as well using different anonymous individual tracking techniques.
Don Jewell contributes these posts on his experience at Where 2.0, noting the unique and effective format that this conference follows:
It does not matter whether you are the president of Microsoft, the CEO of ESRI, or the president of a two man start-up, you only get 15 minutes and indeed this year some have only 10 and some as little as five minutes to tell their story. But you know it works, because it cuts out all the fluff. In the Marketing Business, one of the first things you learn is that you have to have your elevator speech or your five-minute spiel down pat and that is what we are hearing at Where 2.0 and it is refreshing. None of the fluff, just the Joe Friday facts, ma’am.
Great coverage from Frank Taylor at Google Earth Blog:
Where 2.0 - Day 1
Google Geo Search API, ESRI and Google Collaborate
Where 2.0 2008 - Day 2 - Tuesday
Where 2.0 2008 - Day 3 - Wednesday
Rafe Needleman contributes a great run-down on “the Webware takeaway on the most interesting of the dozen apps” at Monday night’s Launchpad.
Stephen Lawson posts this on “Nokia’s next generation of mobile-phone navigation technology, Nokia Maps 2.0″ launched Monday, at the Where 2.0 Conference.
Chris Nuttall posts this, detailing Adrian Holovaty’s presentation, “EveryBlock: A News Feed for Your Block,” and John Hanke and Jack Dangermond’s “The State of the Geoweb.”
We’re looking forward to the Frank Taylor’s coverage at Where this year, he posts this on Seero:
Seero is a new service which offers geo-spatially aware video content in either Google Maps or Google Earth. You can even watch the position of a video broadcast change during the playback of the content, or you can do your own broadcasts.
Up Next, who participated in last years Launch Pad, are at Where again:
This year we going as observers and look forward to hearing from a great roster of speakers and seeing some interesting demos.
“We’ve covered Whrrl, and several of its competitors, already on Webware,” writes Rafe Needleman, “but with the Where 2.0 conference coming up next week, I thought it’d be interesting to dive into this product just a bit more, since it represents some very interesting trends that are central to the creation of location-aware apps.”
Mashable posts this on Seero’s upcoming debut, “Seero is hoping to stand out from the growing realm of live-streaming widgets by being among the first to launch a GPS-enabled widget stream.”
Where 2.0 program chair Brady Forrest rounds up geo activities: “Where 2.0 starts next week on May 12th, but that’s not evening the beginning of the geo-related activities that some people are calling ‘Where Week.’”
We’ve just extended the early registration discount for one more week, so you now have March 31 to save up to $300 on conference fees for Where 2.0 2008 and take part in thought-provoking sessions like:
- EveryBlock: A News Feed for Your Block by Adrian Holovaty (EveryBlock)
- DIY Drones: An Open Source Hardware and Software Approach to Making “Minimum UAVs” by Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine)
- Google Maps for Mobile with My Location—Behind the Scenes by Adel Youssef (Google Inc.) and John Hanke (Google, Inc.)
- Convergence of Architectural and Engineering Design and Location Technology: Implications for eGovernment by Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.)
- Monetizing Maps & Mashups by Greg Sterling (Sterling Market Intelligence)
Program chair Brady Forrest still has a few more intriguing ideas in the hopper for the agenda, so stay tuned.
If you’re thinking of coming to the 2008 edition of Where 2.0 in May, now’s the time to sign up. Early registration–your chance to save up to $300–ends this week. Program chair Brady Forrest has once again put together a stimulating, wide-ranging program, bringing in speakers from all over the world to discuss location issues and applications in gaming, activism, green efforts, search engines, history, crowd behavior, and much more. New this year also is a full day of tutorials.
Program chair Brady Forrest has confirmed the preliminary agenda for this May’s Where 2.0 Conference. Once again, lots of food for thought: GeoDjango, map-based advertising, gaming, OpenLayers, mobile apps, and much more.
New to Where 2.0 this year is a full day of tutorials for folks who want to go more in-depth with location technologies.
The early registration discount will be available until March 23.
If you’re interested in more location information, check out select keynote presentations (video and audio) from the 2007 conference.
News from Dash Express, a follow up from products seen at last year’s Where 2.0 Conference:
Just a reminder for all those proposals for Where 2.0, the time is now!
A nice piece in the location based market about the CFP for Where 2.0:
Here is the official press release announcing the Call for Participation for Where 2.0:
Where 2.0 2008 Brings New Depth to Location-Based Technology
Conference chair Brady Forrest had this to say about the Where 2.0 2008 CFP:
Buzz continues on for the 2007 Where conference:
In this blog, marketed to leaders in National Yellow Pages Advertising and Internet Marketing, the issue of mapping:
This is a good article on the future of location-based technology and how it featured at this past Where 2.0 Conference:
Another nice “mark your calendar” style post:
Mark your calendar - Where 2.0 2008 will happen May 12-14, 2008
People are already talking about the next Where 2.0 conference:
Artur writes about some follow up information concerning Garmin:
We had an editor from this Japanese publication cover the news from the conference. Here is the link (in Japanese!):
This is what Google Earth and Maps team said about the conference:
Peter Krasilovsky had the following to report on his visit to Where 2.0:
Google’s own Andrew Bowers had this to say about Where 2.0:
Finally, we released Google Mapplets yesterday at the Where 2.0 conference.
Glenn Latham reports on the “coolest” thing he saw at Where 2.0:
This story ran on KPIX during the evening News:
Although it’s in French, here’s the link that US based reporter Francis Pisani filed from Where 2.0:
British based ITPro sent husband and wife team Mary Branscombe and Simon Bisson to Where 2.0. Here the story they filed:
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:
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:
Another article regarding Google’s news from Where 2.0. This time from Rachel Rosmarin with Forbes: