I have to give huge props to Nick and Amy for enduring the cold weather at 2:00am in NYC to get on The Today Show. They did a tremendous job with the Ublip poster and you can see our 3 seconds of fame by watching the video below. Great job guys!

I’ve had this idea for over a year now about the ability to share important locations with friends and family. Call it a digital canvas on a map that allows you to pinpoint a location, tell a story, and share photos for all to see. This stems from my passion for location based [...]

I must not be human because I failed the CAPTCHA test three times before getting my post to go through on a highly trafficked community site. I wanted to share a couple of the CAPTCHA challenges and have you tell me whether or not I’m blind. It’s gotta be the white text on [...]

I’ve been following the TrackStick device for a while and was excited to hear about their partnership with Google.  Google will enable TrackStick customers to see their assets using Google Earth. There are several of these GPS data loggers coming out on the market and my suggestion to TrackStick engineers is to wirelessly enable their [...]

I’ve come to find out that Rails has pretty good support for dynamic select lists.  This is achieved through different form helpers, one of which is called collection_select.  You can read more about collection_select here.  The usage is simple and the best part of this is that you get pre-select functionality for free.  To clarify, [...]

You know M$ is taking over the world when they won’t let you exit out of their apps. It’s actually a bug in Excel, but it’s always crazy (and quite humorous) when you get an error message like this.

I thought this was a great business use-case for GPS.  It was pretty interesting to read about the approach of “baiting” thieves to steal equipment so they could be tracked.  Location matters on the biz front too!
http://www.guardianmms.com/Company/2006/GMMS_PR_110706.html

Akismet, all I can say is thank you:

There are ton of LBS platform providers on the market. Today I found that Garmin is joining the bandwagon:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061107/nytu084.html?.v=67
More competition generally means better services for developers, which ultimately means better products for consumers.  LBS platforms are generally expensive to access and deploy, but it’s interesting to see companies move to more of an on-demand [...]

The new Motorola KRZR will ship with GPS capabilities and now it’s a matter of determining whether or not it supports JSR-179.  If so, this will open a world of opportunities for application developers.  A perfect example is Thomas Landspurg’s J2ME Map.
Verizon seems to be on the up-and-up when it comes to hot new mobile [...]