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Sat Oct 13 2012, 7:07am

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Geoloqi Event Calendar 2012-2013

Upcoming Conferences on Location, Mobile and Business

2012 and 2013 are full of interesting conferences to go to and more people to meet. We’ll be traveling even more next year, and we wanted to share this list of upcoming conferences with you. We’ll be traveling mostly to location-based developer, startup and industry events next year and we hope to see you there!

Oct 13-14, 2012

State of the Map Conference

We’ll be bringing the entire Geoloqi team here!

Oct 13-14, 2012

WhereCamp Portland!

We’re hosting a WhereCamp pre-party at Geoloqi HQ! Stop on by!

Oct 17th, 2012

MforMobile Location Business Summit

This San Jose conference will bring together many companies in the location business space. Come learn how brands and enterprise can better leverage location-based services in reasonable ways. Location Business Summit USA. Amber Case will be on a panel about the future of location and brands.

Oct 23-24th, 2012

Keeping it Real-Time Conference

Geoloqi Co-founder Amber Case will be Keynoting, and platform engineer Kyle Drake will be speaking as well.

Nov 3, 2012

CyborgCamp Portland

Geoloqi Co-founder Amber Case’s Biennial unconference on the future of humans and technology is back in Portland after two years! Come see keynotes from a variety of people and disciplines.

Nov 4, 2012

Wearable Computing Hackathon

Come hack together new ways of interacting with technology! Beginner, intermediate and advanced developers welcome!

Nov 7-8, 2012

Vizualized NYC

Geoloqi Co-founder Amber Case will be speaking about data visualization in NYC for the first Vizualized conference.

Nov 17-18, 2012

MobX Berlin, Germany

Nov 27-28, 2012

CIOs in Higher Education

This conference in Turtle Bay, Oahu is a small event on the future of technology in higher education. Geoloqi CEO Amber Case will be discussing how new tech can be used in schools to help students be prepared for the future of reality.

Dec 12, 2012

Mobile-Loco Conference: The Brand & Tech Mobile Location Revolution

San Francisco, CA

Dec 5th, 2012

Le Web (France)

Amber Case will be one of the keynotes at LeWeb. She’ll be speaking on the future of location and the interface.

Jan 23rd, 2013

Amazon Startup Challenge

The Geoloqi team will be at the event to learn more about what developers need when building location-aware apps.

Feb 2nd, 2013

InfoCamp PDX

Amber Case will be giving a speech on the endangered web page and the fragility of digital data.

March 4th, 2013

Launch Festival

The Geoloqi team will be at the event to learn more about what developers need when building location-aware apps.

April 24th, 2013

TheNextWeb Netherlands

The Geoloqi team will be at the event to learn more about what developers need when building location-aware apps.

April 27th, 2013

TC New York

The Geoloqi team will be at the event to learn more about what developers need when building location-aware apps.

Sept TBD, 2013

TC San Francisco

The Geoloqi team will be at the event to learn more about what developers need when building location-aware apps.

Oct TBD, 2013

Dublin Web Summit Ireland

The Geoloqi team will be at the event to learn more about what developers need when building location-aware apps.

Nov 13-14, 2013

Defrag 2013

Amber Case will be one of the keynote speakers at this conference in Broomfield, Colorado.

What to see us at an event?

We’d love to host a hackathon with your company, speak at your conference, or help inspire your team to build interesting applications. If you have an event or activity in mind, please don’t hesitate to let us know!

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Wed Oct 10 2012, 5:17pm

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WhereCampPDX Kickoff Party at Geoloqi! Friday, 10/12 – 6-9pm!

WhereCamp Preparty!

Join us for the Fifth Annual WhereCampPDX Kickoff Party this Friday at Geoloqi HQ!. Beers and banter will be provided! With the growing numbers of geonerds this weekend, feel free to migrate to Lotus Tavern, conveniently located downstairs from Geoloqi, if space gets too crowded upstairs! If you’re here early for the State of the Map Conference, you’re welcome to join us as well. Just let us know who you’re with at the door!

What is Wherecamp?

WhereCampPDX is a free, volunteer-created unconference for anyone interested in geography and technology. This year’s event will be happening October 12th-14th, with a full day of unconference sessions at Metro Regional Center on the 13th.

An unconference is a conference planned by the participants. We convene together, plan sessions, and break-out into the proposed session discussions and activities. This gives everyone an opportunity to bring to the table the things that interest them the most, and talk about emerging topics that are still new and exploratory. We value open participation, providing access to new voices, and lowering barriers to participation. As a result, the event is driven by the interests and talents of the participants.

To attend, you’ll need to be signed up at http://wherecamppdx5.eventbrite.com/, or let us know you’re here early for State of the Map.

When and Where?

WhereCampPDX 5 Kickoff Party
Friday, October 12, 2012 from 6–9pm

Geoloqi HQ
920 SW 3rd Ave #400
Portland, Oregon 97204, US (map)

RSVP to Attend!

You must RSVP via the Eventbrite page to gain access. No need to print tickets but you will be asked if you have registered at the door.

See you there!

Visit http://wherecamppdx.org/

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Fri Sep 7 2012, 5:05am

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Introducing Geonotes for iPhone and Android!

The Geonotes App is here for iPhone and Android!

Today we’re annouching something big! An update to the Geoloqi app. This demo app is the update to the app we released over a year ago. Since then, we’ve released geofencing and real-time SDKs for iPhone and Android.

Time for an Update!

It’s sometimes hard for us to find time to work on apps directly, because our focus is on building a great geofencing platform for mobile development, which is a lot of work.

We wanted to revamp our Geoloqi demo app to take advantage of the battery and accuracy improvements in the SDK, and also provide a way to have people subscribe to the free geo layers that we like to make in our spare time.

Last month, we finally got a chance to sit down and re-write our demo app to use the new SDK, and the result is here: the new Geonotes app from Geoloqi!

With the Geonotes app, you can finally provide battery-safe location context to your daily life: Instead of having to pull out your phone and slowly dig up information every time you need it, your phone becomes your sidekick. When you are in a certain location, it will provide information that is only useful to you when you are in that location.

Get it now for iPhone and Android!

Geonotes is available now for download in the App Store and Android Market. Download it now, add some geonotes, subscribe to layers, and see how fun it is to have location-based knowledge work for you!

Activity Stream

Now all of your geonotes and layer notifications show up in a stream on the app!

Geonotes: Location-based Reminders

For example, when I went shopping, I would always forget to buy bananas, and then regret it when I didn’t have any for breakfast the next day. So with the Geonotes app, I have created a reminder for myself that reminds me to buy bananas when I’m shopping, so I don’t forget.

Layers: Location-based Content

You can also subscribe to Layers, which are plugins to the Geonotes app that provide information for you based on your location. For example, the Wikipedia layer will provide links to articles and a brief description when you walk by places that have Wikipedia pages. I turn it on when I’m visiting new cities, because it’s a great way to get a tour of the city just by walking around.

There are many other layers, including one that notifies you when there was a nearby earthquake. And the Pinball Map layer, which will let you know when you’ve walked near a place that has pinball machines!

And because it’s powered by the Geoloqi Platform API, developers can program with this content to their hearts content. Using Geoloqi’s developer tools, you can make your own layers to add interesting geo-location content. For example, instead of leaving a Geonote to remind me to get bananas, I could program it to provide a shopping list when I’m at the store.

If you make any interesting layers, let us know! We’ll add it to our global list of layers.

Real-Time Tracking

Genotes only does ambient background tracking. To enable real-time tracking, use our GeoTracks app, available for Android (and iPhone, shortly).

Want these features in your apps?

Check out the Geoloqi Platform. With SDKs for iPhone and Android, you’ve got the majority of the market covered. Or if you want to develop for both devices at once, try the Geoloqi module for Appcelerator’s Titanium platform!

Download Geonotes!

Geoloqi’s Geonotes for iPhone

Geonotes for Android on Google Play

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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!