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Wed Sep 5 2012, 8:20pm

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Geoloqi open house startup crawl tomorrow night!

Stop on By!

Tomorrow night (Thursday) we’ll be having a bunch of guests at Geoloqi for a startup crawl as part of the Portland Digital eXperience Conference.

Geoloqi HQ Startup Crawl

Free USB drives, beer and interesting people!

Stop by Geoloqi tomorrow night and check out our office! We’ll have Loqisaur USB drives, stickers and beer for everyone!

Register (free)

Want to head on over? Register here.

Geoloqi HQ

920 SW 3rd Ave #400
Portland, OR 97204
Geoloqi HQ

Startup crawl kickoff at Leftbank Annex

At 5:30 Pm I’ll be speaking with a series of other founders at Leftbank Annex. Afterwards, feel free to head over to Geoloqi HQ and drink into the night!

5:30pm (Leftbank Annex) Founders Kickoff:

Dave Shanley: Co-Founder & CTO of CrowdCompass
Mat Ellis: Founder & CEO of Cloudability
Chris Teso: Founder & CEO of Chirpify
Todd Silverstein: Co-Founder and CEO of Vizify
Amber Case: Co-Founder and CEO of Geoloqi

6:00PM Tech Crawl through the Following Offices

• PIE
• CPUsage
• Cascade Web Development
• The Digits!
• Geoloqi, Inc
• Upstart Labs
• Puppet Labs
• Chirpify
• GlobeSherpa
• Urban Airship
• ShopIgniter
• Jama Software
• Cedexis
• Elemental Technologies
• ENTP
• Night & Day Studios
• Gun Dog Labs
• Janrain
• Kavi
• SatBurner
• Cedexis
• Janrain
• Webvisions
• Perka, Inc

7:00PM – 9:00PM Tech Crawl Party @ Ground Kontrol

Sponsored by CrowdCompass, Cloudability, Corsource

More?

See the full list and more at Lanyrd!

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Wed Jul 25 2012, 11:11am

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Geoloqi at ESRI Users Conference 2012

Hello from San Diego!

This week we sent the entire Geoloqi development team to ESRI’s annual User Conference in San Diego. We all had a great time being around people who enjoy location just as much as we do.

Some of the 15,000 people at the 2012 ESRI User Conference. Photo: @kk for ESRI.

ESRI powers a lot of everyday things that people don’t generally think about. From road planning and civic planning, to emergency response to environmental protection, the presentations were just a small sampling of the many users of ArcGIS and other ESRI tools. With so many applications, it was fun to talk with people about where they wanted to go next. A lot of them were very excited about ambient, adaptive, real-time location.

15,000 people…over 500 sessions!

The conference attracted a whopping 15,000 attendees (compare that to over 20,000 at SXSW Interactive this year). It was more than drinking from a firehose. It was as if each of the sessions was a .zip file that we had to fit into our already crowded brains. Although we only attended three days of the conference, we left feeling completely overwhelmed. It’s going to take a few weeks to process everything we experienced.

Geoloqi Team at the ESRI User Conference 2012

Left to right: Pat Arlt, Kenichi Nakamura, Amber Case, Kyle Drake. Photo: @kk for ESRI.

Conference Sessions

The first day’s plenary talks were all introduced by ESRI CEO Jack Dangermond, a fantastic and animated speaker whose passion was contagious. The entire room fit all of the attendees of the conference, which resulted in three massive projection screens. We got to go backstage to see all of the redundant video equipment and the sheer amount of technology needed to pull off the show. And because a lot of the AV tech are actually ESRI employees, they’re able to fine tune demos and presentations over time.

All of the demos on the first day were so good that a lot of people didn’t think they were real. None of the live demos crashed, and the presenters were so polished that it felt like we were watching a cooking show.

Jack Dangermond gives a plenary talk at the ESRI User Conference. Photo: @kk for ESRI.

Why attend the ESRI conference?

We’re geonerds, and it’s a geonerds dream to be here. A lot of people had recommended that we go to the conference this year. With some help from ESRI, we were able to meet a entire slew of interesting companies and startups, from small, two-person companies doing groundbreaking work in indoor mapping to Open Street Maps, a wonderful project whose data we rely on every day. In all, it was great to see a platform company that could enable so many solutions with a base set of tools.

What’s next?

If you’re into geo, like us, then I’d strongly encourage you to attend State of the Map US (SOTM) on October 12-14th in Portland, Oregon, as well as this year’s WhereCamp Portland from October 13-14th, 2012. We’ll be hosting a pre-party for WhereCamp at Geoloqi HQ! Hope to see you there!

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Mon Jul 9 2012, 6:18pm

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Google I/O Geoloqi/Appcelerator Party Recap!

Greetings from Google I/O! Geoloqi COO Robin Jones, Android Platform Engineer Tristan Waddington and CTO Aaron Parecki hung out with Appcelerator at a fantastic bash right across the street from the conference. They met a bunch of awesome new people and developers and had quite a nice time! If you’re currently at Google I/O and you see any of us in our Geoloqi shirts, feel free to stop by! We’ll be handing out USB dinosaurs and stickers.

About Geoloqi

Geoloqi is a next generation location platform allowing developers and businesses to easily add advanced location capabilities to their mobile apps. Real-time location, geofencing and location-based push notifications are some of the features that one can add to an existing or new application in a matter of minutes. Geoloqi handles the hard part of geo so you don’t have to. You can sign up as a developer at http://developers.geoloqi.com or use the Geoloqi module for Titanium to easily deploy advanced geolocation apps for both iPhone and Android with ease! You can follow Geoloqi on Twitter here.

Robin Jones and Aaron Parecki at the GenMobile Geoloqi Party at Google I/O!

See you there!

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Mon Jun 25 2012, 7:19pm

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Party with Geoloqi and Appcelerator at Google I/O this Week!

Planning to be at Google I/O this week? If so, Geoloqi is co-hosting the #GenMobile party on June 28 during Google I/O and we’d love to have you attend as our guest if you’re in town!

When and Where?

Be our guest Thursday, June 28, for an action-packed evening of eating, drinking, gratuitous photobooth’ing, spontaneous dancing, and relentless networking with others. Join fellow mobile apps entrepreneurs, developers, BD heads, VCs, and tech press during Google’s I/O developer conference.

Everything happens at Jillian’s, which conveniently located right across the street from the conference venue.

Who will be there?

Your gracious hosts for the evening are some of the hottest platform players fueling the mobile revolution: Appcelerator, Geoloqi, New Relic, and the NOOK developer platform (Barnes & Noble). Also joining us as the evening’s media partner is the leading publication for breaking technology news, VentureBeat.

Register here for the Geoloqi/Appcelerator Google I/O Event!

Geoloqi Team and Schwag!

Look for the smiling characters in Geoloqi T-Shirts. Robin Jones (@wubledoo), COO of Geoloqi, Tristan Waddington (@twaddington), Android Platform Engineer, and Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk), Geoloqi’s CTO and Co-Founder will be handing out dinosaur stickers and dino USB drives!

Find Tristan Waddington at Google I/O this week! He’s on Twitter @twaddington and he’ll be giving out lots of Dinos!

Geoloqi Guest Pass!

Want to come to the party? Use this special Geoloqi link to register, so we’ll know to count you in! (Free, but there are limited passes left).

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See you there!

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Sun May 13 2012, 10:10am

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Geoloqi-Powered Apps Win 1st & 3rd Place at the AT&T Hackathon in Miami!

Over 100 developers participated in the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon in Miami this May. Developers teamed up to produce 11 applications in less than 24 hours. Teams that built apps powered by the Geoloqi platform took home the 1st and 3rd place prizes!

The event was produced by the AT&T Developer Program, Geoloqi, Apigee and others. It was designed for attendees to build apps/mobile apps and compete for prizes across different categories.

Developers with knowledge of many languages competed to finish a working app by the deadline, and Kyle Drake, Geoloqi’s platform engineer, was onsite to help developers with their projects. Everyone had a great time. The AT&T hackathon winners are below!

Geoloqi and AT&T Hackathon Award Winners Miami

First Place Winner

Gorillacab - General Hackathon 1st Place Winner – Gorillacab is a social location-aware application that quickly and affordably gets riders from A to B. Gorillacab used Geoloqi to power the location-based aspects of their application!

Gorilla Cab - 1st Prize Winners at the AT&T Geoloqi Hackathon in Miami

Third Place Winner

Do It 10 Times - General Hackathon 3rd Place Winner - Do It 10 Times is a next generation loyalty card application that helps users get discounts without the effort. Do It 10 Times helps companies get repeat customers without the hassle of advertising campaigns. Visit a location ten times and get coupons in your email, it’s that simple! Do It 10 Times used the Geoloqi platform to detect when visitors entered places of interest and then automatically checked them into those places.

Do t Ten Times - Geoloqi AT&T Hackathon Award Winner Miami

Other apps built on the Geoloqi Platform

Transit Layer - Transit Layer is an app built on the Geoloqi platform that notifies the user when the next bus will be coming. The app uses the user’s location to detect when they have entered a region and sends a callback sent to Geoloqi to lookup when the next bus will be coming, then sends the message to user.

Check check out AT&T’s full recap of the hackathon and the full list of winners!

Thanks to AT&T, Apigee and Kyle Drake for putting together a great hackathon! Thanks to everyone who built their app on the Geoloqi platform as well!

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About Kyle Drake

Kyle Drake is a many-hats web developer and entrepreneur that speaks multiple languages, and has worked with numerous startups to build their core infrastructure. Kyle Drake is currently Geoloqi’s lead platform engineer. You can follow Kyle Drake on Twitter here.