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Wed Mar 7 2012, 3:15pm

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

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

I’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

Aaron 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

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

Kyle 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].

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Tue Jan 24 2012, 11:11am

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Kyle Drake to Present “Building a Real-time geolocation game with Geoloqi using Node.JS” @ #NodePDX

Geoloqi Developer Kyle Drake will be presenting how he and the team at Geoloqi built a real-time geolocation game with Node.js and the Geoloqi API & Services. A quick description of Kyle’s presentation:

There are very powerful things you can do with Node.JS, particularly with projects needing a lot of I/O operations. At Geoloqi, we have used Node.JS and Socket.IO to build a JavaScript client that allows our developers to map real-time tracking on a browser with almost no code needed. Our first project using this is MapAttack!, a truly real-time location-based geofencing game.

Hear about how we made the game, how we made it real-time, where we’re going, and where Node.JS is going to have a role in it. I will also cover what it took to build Geoloqi’s Real-time Streaming API, and how it can be used to bring real-time location functionality to existing applications.

I will also talk a little bit about the Reactor pattern, the mysterious thing underneath that powers Node.JS. I’ll discuss what Reactor patterns are good for (and not so good for), and compare them with threads. I will also compare Node.JS’s reactor pattern to ones in other languages.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/kyledrake
Geoloqi Developers Site: https://developers.geoloqi.com
Geoloqi’s Github: https://github.com/geoloqi
Kyle Drake’s Github: https://github.com/kyledrake

If you’d just like to come and check out Kyle’s Presentation and the other kick ass presentations lined up, get involved in some coding, hear what Node.js is all about, or just hang out please RSVP and get the event on your calendar!

If you’d like to be among the presenters, submit a proposal, and you too can step up into the coder spotlight.

Post credit: Thanks to Adron Hall for the original post and for the permission to repost it here! Original post on Composite Code.

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Fri Sep 30 2011, 12:12pm

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Geoloqi Developer Kyle Drake to speak on building real-time games at Keeping it Realtime Conference in Portland, Oregon!

We’re happy to announce that on November 7th 2011, Geoloqi’s Kyle Drake will be speaking at the Keeping it Realtime Conference in Portland, Oregon!

Who is Kyle Drake?
Kyle Drake is a software engineer at Geoloqi. Drake helped build Geoloqi’s real-time location-streaming API, and he developed the Sinatra Synchrony framework for Ruby specifically for MapAttack, a real-time location-based urban geofencing game built on the Geoloqi platform.

He also developed some of the top Facebook applications as a senior Facebook app developer at Dachis Group in Portland, Oregon.

Session Description: Building MapAttack: A Realtime Geofence Game

Drake will talk about what was involved in building MapAttack, a truly real-time location-based geofencing game. Challenges and limitations, advantages and disadvantages will be discussed.

He’ll also discuss the technology behind MapAttack, including Sinatra Synchrony for Ruby, which he built specifically for the Geoloqi’s geofencing game MapAttack. He’ll also cover what it took to build Geoloqi’s real-time streaming API and how it can be used to bring real-time location functionality to existing applications.

What is KRT Conf?

Keeping is Realtime is a conference by developers, for developers with passionate, kickass speakers.
It’s a place where brand new frameworks are unveiled, there’s education for beginners and veterans. It’s a place for diverse perspectives and stacks in a venue structured to maximize discussion. This makes for a series of awesome networking events over the course of two amazing days.

When?

Nov. 7th-8th, 2011 at the Left Bank Annex building in Portland, OR.

Tickets!

Get tickets for Keeping It Realtime

More about MapAttack!

MapAttack is a real-time location-based game built on the Geoloqi platform. You can follow MapAttack! on Twitter at @playmapattack. You can download the MapAttack source code here.

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Mon Sep 12 2011, 8:20pm

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Overview of this Sunday’s MapAttack Game in Ladd’s Addition!

Last Sunday we invited 12 people participate in a game of MapAttack. We hosted the gamemap in the curiously-shaped SE Portland neighborhood called Ladd’s Addition. Created in 1891, it is one of Portland’s oldest planned residential districts. The neighborhood is known for its diagonal street pattern, which made it the perfect place to set up a test game.

What is MapAttack?

MapAttack is a game of real-time strategy built for real life. Virtual geofences are scattered onto the map and players must physically go to where they are on the map in order to capture them. The winner is the team that captures the most points. We built the game on the Geoloqi platform.

MapAttack Mid-Game

MapAttack - In-game iPhone View Late game MapAttack Mobile View

The idea behind MapAttack! is to be able to play in real life and to feel like a kid again. Suddenly everyday life becomes brighter and more intense, and you don’t care that you’ve just run 5 blocks because there’s a point up ahead that you have to catch before the guy on the other team does!

The twelve players got a custom build of the MapAttack! game on their phones, were automatically assigned to red and blue teams and huddled together to plan their strategy for picking up the dots.

The blue team started out with DH and AH in the lead running at full speed town the diagonals of Ladd’s Addition. As the other players joined in, everyone could see each other running in real-time on the map on the maps on their phones. The game became a sort of Marauder’s map where you could plot your next attack based on who was heading towards each point.

After about 20 minutes, the players on the map began to slow down, and we joined up with each other to walk back to the starting point. Some of the players were still running at full speed trying to get the rest of the points. Some were tired and met up to watch the game in progress on their phones. Aaron Parecki, the game moderator, sent some messages to us throughout the game egging us on. “Is the Blue team going to let the Red team capture those points near Lincoln Street?” read one of the push notifications. Almost immediately, we saw members of the Blue team rush over to try to capture those points.

Gameplay and Strategy

Each player had a different plan of action for capturing the points on the gameboard. Some ran at top speed, trying to get to the highest value points on the board. Others strategically chose routes with the highest point values and gathered points that way.

In the end, we were all exhausted. Most of us hadn’t run that fast since we were kids. Many of the players had never played a real-life mobile game before, and MapAttack is the first of its kind.

The twelve people that played the game had a great and exhausting time. We ate a bunch of fresh fruit and relaxed afterwards. It was a great game for a hot summer day.

Geoloqi Technology

We built MapAttack on the Geoloqi platform in order to test the platform’s real-time location and our new ability to rapidly detect which phones were in small, accurate geofences. This was the first test of the game in a real-time server environment. That meant that everything on the phones and on the web moved as if they were moving in real life. The new code actually allowed the phones to update their location in real-time to the map with a minimal drain on battery. This was the first time we put it all together for a seamless player experience.

Bring MapAttack to your city, school or company!

Want to bring a game to your school or company? Contact us at mapattack at geoloqi dot com and we’ll be glad to help you out! You can also follow @playmapattack on Twitter for the latest games and news! We’ll be bringing it to more campuses and cities starting in Sweden this week! You can also visit MapAttack on the web at http://mapattack.org/.

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Fri Apr 29 2011, 10:22pm

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Geoloqi wins the mobile showcase at AppNation San Francisco!

Mobile App Competition

This week the Geoloqi team attended APPNATION and presented at AppCircus, a global open app showcase. We learned about the conference from Di-Ann Eisnor and had very little time to prepare our presentation for the event.

Lots of Apps!

The competition had a lot of great ideas and it was wonderful to see them. All were successful apps in many different fields. Our two favorites were GitBax, an app that helps you “get back” to those you meet, and OpenSignalMaps, an app for finding mobile signals around town.

The next morning Geoloqi was called to the stage and awarded a $1,500 cash prize on behalf of APPNATION. Geoloqi was also entered into consideration for a presentation at Mobile World Expo in Barcelona, Spain next year.

APPNATION, San Francisco!

APPNATION was a great conference! We learned a great deal and got to meet a ton of amazing people. The presentations were chock full of information and the expo floor companies were very relevant and useful to talk to. We have Di-Ann Eisnor to thank for telling us about the conference, and the conference organizers for putting on such a great event.

Much more to come!

Thanks to everyone who attended the event, helped us to prepare and supported Geoloqi in general. If you’d like to get news more quickly follow Geoloqi on Twitter!