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Tue Mar 13 2012, 1:13pm

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Geoloqi adds Appcelerator, Factual and Locaid partnerships, covered by TIME, Wired, CNet and VentureBeat and more at SXSW

We are pleased to share the news resulting from Amber Case’s keynote yesterday at SXSW Interactive. At the event, she shared that Geoloqi has established three key partnerships with Appcelerator, Factual and LocAid. These three partners help extend the Geoloqi platform into the hands of 1.6 million mobile app developers, to over 350 million phones, with a database including more than 60 million places of interest. The audience filled the room to capacity with 3,200 people and another 1,000 in overflow rooms with a livestream link.

Amber Case speaks to a packed ballroom at SXSW 2012 - Photo by Sheryl Maloney

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We’re excited to share some of the great coverage we’ve been getting so far!

SXSW: Why Geo-Fencing Might Change Your Life (and Make You Believe in Location Sharing) “Imagine a world in which location-based applications were used less to merely identify location than to dynamically coordinate one’s personal data and agenda, making the accessing of information easier and more efficient.” – Time

Smartphone Battery Dead Again? Geoloqi Locates a Possible Solution “It’s notoriously annoying to handle all of this as a developer,” independent mobile security researcher Ashkan Soltani told Wired. “Geoloqi wraps everything together for third-party developers in a streamlined package, while also adding analytics services to sweeten the deal.” – Wired

How cutting edge geolocation can change everything This afternoon at the South by Southwest festival here, Geoloqi founder and CEO Amber Case gave a keynote talking about the state of the art in geolocation, and how new tools like those from her company and others are changing the world. – CNet

Geoloqi, Solver of the Great Location Problem, Partners Up Portland startup Geoloqi has been heralded as the one company to have finally cracked the code. It’s no accident. “We didn’t want to work on problems everyone is working on,” co-founder Amber Case told me. “We want to solve the hard ones.” – PandoDaily

Geoloqi adds 3 partnerships, extends reach to 1.6M devs The tools Geoloqi offers can be used to develop with any carrier and on any smartphone. These include geofencing, which allows an application to monitor a specified area and provide interactions to users based on whether they’re in that zone, “battery-safe trigger zones,” which tells an app to reduce its GPS monitoring based on whether a user is near a geofence, and “location-based messaging” which pings a user with information relevant to where they are. – VentureBeat

SXSW 2012 Apps Buzz Is Location, Location, Location Geoloqi makes a host of different location notifications that could have myriad consequences for consumers and businesses. Users can ask for notification reminders (“Don’t forget the tomato sauce!”) when arriving at a destination. – Huffington Post

Geoloqi Extends Platform with Appcelerator, Factual and Locaid Partnerships Geoloqi, a powerful platform for next-generation location based services, today announced strategic new partnerships with Appcelerator, a leading cross-platform mobile development platform; Factual, a large-scale data aggregation platform with a Global Places API; and Locaid, the world’s largest carrier location platform. – Directions Magazine

Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface Case is interested in the next generation of location, one that is ambient because it sits in the background and solves problems. Hence she has developed a platform called Geoloqi, a private location-sharing app to help address her frustrations. At SXSW she announced new partnerships with appcelerator, factual and Locaid to move Geoloqi to the next level. – Porter Novelli Blog

“Cyborg Anthropologist” (and CEO of Geoloqi) Amber Case at SXSWi 2012! When asked how GPS-based apps can change the world, Case answered, “Once you break down the barriers of space, then you start getting superpowers, this omniscient idea of where people are.” – What’s Trending

Location, location, location at SXSWi Geoloqi also found a way to keep battery usage down, a plague on location-services that are always monitoring where in the world you are. – NOW Toronto

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We don’t yet have a video link to the keynote from SXSW, but you can see Amber in action on an episode of Qualcomm Spark.

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Wed Mar 7 2012, 3:15pm

By caseorganic

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Geoloqi at SXSW 2012 – Dinosaur USB Drives, Keynote Speech, Partnership Announcements and More!

Hang out with us at SXSW Interactive 2012 in Austin, TX!Will you be at SXSW this year? We’re looking forward to seeing you there! There’s a lot to talk about. Look for a big announcement from us from the main stage of the conference on the 11th of March!

First thing’s first: Dinosaur USB Drives!

We’ll be handing out 400 Dinosaur USB drives with the Geoloqi SDKs for iPhone and Android on them. If you see any of us at a party or at the conference, ask us for one!

Meet the Geoloqi Team at SXSW!

Half the Geoloqi team will be with us at SXSW! If you see any of us, ask for a Loqisaur USB drive, or talk to us about location. We’re all quite friendly!

Amber Case, Co-Founder and CEO

@caseorganic - Co-founder, Geoloqi.comI’ll be giving a keynote speech at this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas! I’ll be doing an extended version of a talk on cyborg anthropology and the future of the interface, and will then go into what we’ve been doing at Geoloqi, and well as some major partnership announcements.

If you’re interested in the future of humans and technology, and the future of location, it should be an interesting speech! Lots of new things to talk about. Hope to see you there!

When and Where?
Keynote on Location and the Future of Humans and Technology
March 11th, 2012 from 2:00pm–3:00pm CST
Exhibit Hall 5, Austin Convention Center
You can learn more about the speech here.

Interested in meeting up during SXSW? I’ll be on Twitter @caseorganic. Feel free to @ or DM me anytime, or if you’re press, see the press contact below!

Aaron Parecki, Co-Founder and Platform Engineer

@aaronpk, Co-founder, GeoloqiAaron Parecki is a Portland-based iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. In his free time, he enjoys geolocation, linguistics, and building home automation systems and IRC bots with a sense of humor. For the past 2½ years, he has been tracking and visualizing his location every 6 seconds, making him a frequent presenter at the Portland data visualization group. His fascination with location sharing and GPS began at the age of 6, when he traced the routes of family road trips on a map with a highlighter.

He combined these interests and created Geoloqi.com, a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location sharing with Amber Case in an effort to help people connect in the real world. He has 11 years experience in web app development, database design, graphic design and printing, and server administration.

Aaron will be speaking on a panel on Engineering Serendipity to Instigate and Delight!

When and Where?
Engineering Serendipity to Instigate and Delight
Saturday, March 10, 2012 from 5:00PM – 6:00PM
Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon J
You can learn more about Aaron’s panel here!.

Bernie Albers, VP of Sales

@berniealbers - VP Sales at Geoloqi!As Vice President of Sales, Bernie brings more than a decade of experience working with enterprise marketers to leverage the power of technology and digital media to create and maintain meaningful relationships with customers. He excels at translating the needs of enterprise marketers into successful revenue strategies for early and mid-stage technology and media organizations.

Before joining Geoloqi, Bernie served as Regional VP Sales for thismoment where he brought to market DEC 3.0, an innovative Social Content Management System enabling brand marketers to effectively manage audience engagement across mutliple social channels. Prior to thismoment, Bernie served as Vice President of Sales for Six Apart where he was responsible for optimizing the sales organization toward a media-centric growth strategy. He was responsible for building the sales team and managing the go-to-market strategy and rollout of a new suite of media solutions. Six Apart was acquired by ad network VideoEgg resulting in the formation of SAY Media.

You can find Bernie Albers on Twitter @berniealbers! He’s your best bet for anything sales related.

Kyle Drake, Platform Engineer

@kyledrake - Platform Engineer, GeoloqiKyle Drake is a many-hats web developer and entrepreneur that speaks multiple languages, and has worked with numerous startups to build their infrastructure. As a software engineer for Geoloqi, he is helping to build their geolocation platform and real-time location-streaming API. He previously developed some of the top Facebook applications as a senior Facebook app developer for Dachis Group.

In his free time, Kyle likes writing more code, working on web site ideas, riding his bicycle around Portland, hiking in the mountains, skiing, reading anthropology and tech books, and he’s fairly good at playing the Star Trek pinball machine at Ground Kontrol.

You can find Kyle Drake on Twitter @kyledrake and on Github.

Sound Good?

We’re really excited for this year’s conference and are looking forward to all of the breakfast tacos, events and great people. See you soon!

If you are press attending SXSW Interactive and would like to schedule an interview, contact
Jennifer Lankford
theMIX agency for Geoloqi
415-412-2856
[email protected].