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Tue Jan 8 2013, 4:16pm

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Esri/Geoloqi/Foursquare Hackathon Recap from San Francisco!

Geoloqi/Esri had a great time at the Foursquare Hackathon this weekend! Not only did tons of people show up to hack (over 200 globally, 100 at the NYC office, and around 50 at the SF office), we got to hang out with our friends Jim Young and Bronwyn Agrios from Esri’s SF office!

Together we built interesting stuff, saw interesting hacks, and met lots of new people.

Kyle Drake shows the output of the NASDAQ API to a hackathon participant

Esri/Geoloqi platform developer Kyle Drake (top right) shows the output of the NASDAQ API to a hackathon participant.

Jim and Bronwyn

Jim Young and Bronwyn Agrios (top right) from the Esri SF get a demo from a fellow hackathon participant.

Winner of the Esri/Geoloqi prize at Foursquare Hackathon

We awarded an iPad prize to Leah Vaughan (second from left) for her great use of an Esri map! Her app was called “Stuck at the Airport”. It recommends interesting places/things to see around you when you’re in transit areas (train satins, airports, rest stops, etc.).

Also, Kyle Drake, Aaron Parecki and I put together a hack using the NASDAQ and Foursquare APIs called NASDAQ Facts (below).

NASDAQ Facts for Foursquare tells you the stock price of every public company you check into. Stock markets are about more than numbers. Discover which places on Foursquare you visit are public companies, get information on how they are doing, and learn more about them by clicking on a link. The information automatically appears on your Foursquare app after checking into a place! (We ended up winning a flying shark for this hack!).

We finished our hacking early, so Kyle Drake hung out in the Foursquare office hammock.

See you next time!

You can see a list of all the Foursquare Hackathon projects here, as well as the local winners and global winners! If you’d like to build cool stuff with us in the future, let us know! Who knows? We may soon be coming to a hack day near you!

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(You can find Jim and Bronwyn at SF’s Hatchery!)

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Sat Oct 13 2012, 7:07am

By caseorganic

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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

State of the Map USA
We’ll be bringing the entire Geoloqi team here!

Oct 13-14, 2012

WhereCamp Portland!

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

Keeping it Realtime Portland

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

Nov 3, 2012

CyborgCamp Portland

CyborgCamp Portland 2012

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

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

Nov 7-8, 2012

Vizualized NYC

Visualized Conference 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

MobX Conference Berlin

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)

LeWeb Paris

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

InfoCamp Portland

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

March 4th, 2013

Launch Festival

Launch Conference

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 Next Web
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

TechCrunch Disrupt

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

TechCrunch Disrupt
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

Dublin Web Summit
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

Defrag Conference
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 Jul 25 2012, 11:11am

By caseorganic

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Geoloqi at ESRI Users Conference 2012

Photo: @kk for ESRI

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 - ESRI CEO

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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Wed May 23 2012, 11:11am

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Geoloqi Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies

Geoloqi Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies

Geoloqi is honored to have been featured as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant companies! Below is an excerpt of the article, and you can read more here

“During her keynote speech at the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Geoloqi CEO Amber Case proclaimed that the next generation of location-based apps and analytics would transform the mobile phone into a “remote control for reality,” with people as the metaphorical buttons. The problem with the current state of things, she lamented, is that you “miss a lot of life looking at the screen all the time.” …more

Geoloqi Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies

“With Geoloqi, you can make apps to fix that–apps that work in the background, alerting you only if something needs to be done. The Portland, Ore.-based company provides a turnkey platform that makes it easy to add next-generation geolocation functionality to apps and mobile devices. The company demonstrates its capabilities to potential clients and partners with its own app, which has features like “Don’t Eat There” (it pings you if you’re near a restaurant that has gotten too many bad reviews). Case and co-founder Aaron Parecki programmed a set of location-based features that automatically turn lights on or off when they enter or leave their houses.” …more

“Ambient-location technology, as Case describes geolocation, “has incredible implications for the end-user.” Other developers, she hopes, will take the technology and run with it, since her main focus is on big organizations. Already, Geoloqi has partnerships with app-development platforms like Appcelerator and a project with personnel recovery firm TATE to help track the global staffs of clients such as the Peace Corps, pushing emergency alerts upon entry to dangerous areas.” …more

Geoloqi named Entrepreneur Magazines 100 Brilliant Companies

Thanks again to everyone that’s worked with, worked on and supported Geoloqi as we’ve grown from a small project to an emerging company. Check out the other Entrepreneur Magazine featured companies here.

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Wed Apr 11 2012, 4:16pm

By kyledrake

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Geoloqi Now Detects Nearby Pinball Machines

Geoloqi Pinball Layer Geolocation

Geoloqi has a new layer that is going to make your coin jars a lot more empty.

When we’re not working (which we love to do), we also love to play pinball. It turns out (we only recently found this out) that the city we live and work in is one of the top pinball cities in America). There’s a great website called the Pinball Map that (using crowdsourcing) keeps track of the pinball machines in cities all over the country. They also have a a great iPhone and Android app so you can update and find machines (Scott Wainstock and Ryan Gratzer worked on the apps and the Pinball Map site, and did a great job with them).

Geoloqi Pinball Geo Notification

We wanted to see if we could use Geoloqi to automatically let us know when we were near a bar with pinball machines. So we combined the Pinball Map data with Geoloqi, and the result is the Geoloqi Pinball Machine Detector!

How it works: When you walk by a venue that has a pinball machine, Geoloqi automatically detects it and sends you a message, which has the name of the venue, and the names of all the pinball machines. We tried it out recently, and it was great. We first found a bar with CSI and the new Batman pinball machine, both of which were only a week old (the Pinball Map data is remarkably up-to-date).

Next we walked by the Shanghai Tunnel, a bar in downtown Portland, which had five machines in the basement. The machines weren’t visible from the road, so I would have never known about them without the Pinball layer. I’ve found a lot of great new places to stop in and visit since I started using it. It’s surprising how many hidden gems you can find, even in the neighborhood you live in.

We also found a really odd Elton John pinball machine (Captain Fantastic) in the shoe store across from Powell’s (a big bookstore in downtown Portland). We’ve walked by it hundreds of times, and still had no idea it was there.

Pinball Map Site

The layer only took a few hours to build, and it was very easy to implement. It’s my favorite layer for Geoloqi right now (the Dinosaur Fossils layer is a close second). I was able to use our visual Layer Editor to track and view progress while the script was importing. It’s a lot of data, but our front-end designer/developer (Patrick Arlt) was able to use our Javascript SDK to make direct calls to the API from our editor, which improves performance a lot, so even with a lot of data, the layer editor works great. It makes a big difference to be able to see the data you’re working with!

Geoloqi Pinball Map Layer

Anything with geo-location can be made into a layer like this. We’ve been having a lot of fun implementing these, and we’re always looking for more ideas and datasets to import in the future. If you have any ideas in mind, you should send them to us (or better yet, make your own layer!).

Geoloqi Pinball Notification

Where does it work?

If you’re in any of the following cities, you can use this layer to get Pinball notifications!
Austin, San Francisco, Boston, British Columbia, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, New York City, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle, Spokane

Try it Out!

Download the Geoloqi app and subscribe to the Pinball layer! It’s free.. unlike the pinball machines.

Top photo credit: Creative Commons by Flickr User BeerNotBombs