This is to share one of my favorite burger spots and showcase a new Ublip feature. To learn more about the embedded maps feature read the blog post. We’re hoping this feature will gain traction within the blogosphere and there’s much more that you’ll be able to do in the near future. If [...]

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’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 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

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 [...]

I found this great page on Nokia’s site that lists different platforms and devices that support some form of retrieving a device’s location:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/location_based_services.html
I’ve been a HUGE fan of Nokia’s N series devices and maybe one day soon I’ll acquire one.  Europe always seems to get the coolest devices first!

Why does location matter?
Because I’m tired of parking my car at the office, mall, game, etc and forgetting where I parked. I should be able to “geotag” my car with my phone and then as I’m walking back to it pull out my phone to see where it is.  Sort of a LAN (local area [...]

Over the past few years I’ve been following the LBS (location based services) industry. This all started when I was doing a little startup called Dashfly and we entered a contest sponsored by Nokia for LBS. The contest was simple, come up with a legitimate LBS idea and Nokia would provide the funding [...]