Aaron Parecki

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Sun Oct 3 2010, 12:12pm

By Aaron Parecki

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Geoloqi API Example

To quickly write an application for your Geoloqi account, you can request a permanent access token through the “Connections” screen on your account.

Once you have this access token, you don’t need to deal with refreshing the token using the standard OAuth 2 spec. You can use this access token in all requests indefinitely.

Here is an example of retrieving your user profile using the API.


<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.geoloqi.com/1/account/profile');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: OAuth ' . $oauth_token));
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
print_r($response);
?>

Alternatively, you can pass the oauth token in the query string.

<?php
print_r(json_decode(file_get_contents('https://api.geoloqi.com/1/account/profile?oauth_token=' . $oauth_token)));
?>

See more API methods on the API documentation.

Posted

Thu Sep 23 2010, 12:12pm

By Aaron Parecki

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Geosketching – Cyborgs are Mapping Portland

The Grassy Knoll Gallery presents:

Geosketching – Gallery Show and CyborgCamp Pre-Party

Grassy Knoll Gallery
123 NW 2nd Ave
Portland, Oregon 97209
Friday, Oct 1st, 2010 6-9 PM

Exhibition Dates // Oct 1 – 29
Artist Reception // Friday, Oct 1st, 2010 6-9 PM. Free and open to the public
Gallery Hours // by appointment
DJ set by Let’s Go Outside

Where a person goes can reveal a lot about who they are and how they live. Thousands of people can live in the same city and have drastically different experiences.

GPS maps are a kind of technogeographical self portrait; a way of showing how one has lived during a certain period of time. The methods for taking data can reveal something about a person as well. There is no standard way of taking GPS data. One’s map may differ greatly from another. For the past two years, Aaron Parecki has been carrying a GPS tracker with him at all times, walking, busing, biking, driving and flying. Amber Case has been taking data since January 2010. Together, they have logged over 10 million GPS points. These points have been plotted onto paper, then color-coded by time of day and speed of movement to render beautiful and thought provoking prints that serve as “geotechnological” self-portraits.

Portland-based PHP developer and GPS enthusiast Aaron Parecki experiments with automatic location check-ins and proximal notification systems. He also began using GPS to control the lights in his house and perform other automated actions.

Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist from Portland, Oregon. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds.

Together the two founded Geoloqi.com in an effort to make GPS tracking and advanced co-location protocols available to the general public.

How Can I Do This?

Geoloqi, a GPS tracker app for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Palm is in constant development. It will allow anyone to take data and make maps like these. If you’d like to beta test or help us develop it, sign up at Geoloqi.com or follow @geoloqi on Twitter.

Geosketching will also be an opening celebration for the upcoming Cyborg Camp Portland 2010 on October 2nd.

About Cyborg Camp

CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. Topics discussed include, but are not limited to, social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.
For more information and to register go to portland.cyborgcamp.com or contact Amber Case.

Fashionbuddha Studio creates world-class animations and interactive experiences. Fashionbuddha Studio is featured in Communication Arts Design and Interactive Annual, how Magazine, and Best of Show at the 2009 Webvisionary Awards. www.fashionbuddha.com

About the Grassy Knoll Gallery

The Grassy Knoll Gallery began in August 2007 as a venture between Robert Lewis, owner of Fashionbuddha Animation Studio, and curator Renee Marcotte. Located on the second floor of the historic Merchant Hotel in Old Town, Grassy Knoll Gallery provides a unique outlet for illustrators and animators.

For more information on past, current and future shows or to purchase artwork online, please visit our website at www.grassyknollgallery.com.

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Sun Aug 29 2010, 12:12pm

By Aaron Parecki

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Inherent Privacy

Geoloqi does not have a way to “friend” people on the network. Instead, Geoloqi takes a different approach to location sharing which more closely models real-life relationships.

Traditional social networks allow you to either be friends with someone or not. On Foursquare and Google Latitude you request permission to follow someone and then you see all of their checkins and location. Flickr has a tiered structure where you can mark people as a contact, a friend, or family. However, neither of these models accurately represents real relationships.

Respect the temporal nature of real-life relationships.

It is useful to share my location with a client I’m trying to meet at a coffee shop. However, I would never friend a client on Foursquare or Google Latitude. I wouldn’t necessarily want a client to know where I am all the time. On the other side of the coin, I also wouldn’t want to see where a client is all the time if they shared their location with me. Their location is only relevant to me if we’re trying to meet.

To more closely model the real relationships we have with people around location sharing, Geoloqi allows you to send an expiring link. You can set a time limit when the link will no longer show your updated location. This is a more accurate way to describe your relationship with your client: your client can only see your location for the 30 minutes leading up to your meeting.

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Sat Aug 28 2010, 1:13pm

By Aaron Parecki

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Software Association of Oregon – Location-Based Apps

There’s a message from your future and it’s telling you to remember to pick up milk.

Amber Case and her partner Aaron Parecki are the founders of Geoloqi. Geoloqi is a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends. Geoloqi has been covered in the Willamette Week and Oregon Business. It has been presented at eComm, Open Source Bridge, Show and Tell PDX and Research Club under the alias Non-Visual Augmented Reality with SMS and GPS. Read CNN’s article on Geoloqi, “What’s Next for ‘Check-in’ Apps“.

What will you learn:

  1. Why developers of apps should look at what users want to do now, as well as what users want to do in their future.
  2. Why social apps should try to mirror real–world relationships
  3. Why sharing should be about who you share with as well as how long you want the information to be available.
  4. Why developers should think about making apps “ambient” and require less user interaction.

Tickets are $15. Register for the event here.

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Fri Aug 27 2010, 10:10am

By Aaron Parecki

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CNN Tech: What’s Next for Check-in Apps?

John D Sutter writes: “An open-source group called geoloqi is trying to take that idea of an automated check-in radius even further.

The volunteer group of app developers, which is based in Portland, Oregon, is working on a website and app that will help trigger events if and when a person walks up to certain pre-set locations.

For example, you would be able to set the app to text you your shopping list when you went within a certain distance of your favorite grocery store.

Or, if you didn’t show up to work by 9 a.m., you could set the app automatically to e-mail your boss saying that you’re late, said Aaron Parecki, geoloqi’s founder.

“We’re calling these geonotes,” he said, “and these are location-based notes so you can leave yourself a note that is tied to a location and pops up when you’re there.”

The site and the app should be up and running in about a month, he said. Geoloqi won’t be a social network, exactly, but it could be integrated into Foursquare, Gowalla or other location-based networks, he said. The group has one new project up — it’s a Seattle, Washington-based website that can send you a text message, in real time, when a 911 call is placed within a certain radius of you.”

Read the full article at cnn.com