Geoloqi Co-founder Aaron Parecki were honored to be included in this year’s 30 Under 30 from Inc Magazine! We’re honored to be included in a list of founders that includes, among others, Jess3′s Jesse Thomas and Leslie Bradshaw, Pinterest’s Ben Silbermann & Evan Sharp, Dwolla’s Ben Milne, and Spotify’s Daniel Ek!
You can read more about Geoloqi in Inc Magazine here, or check out the entire list at Inc.com.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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).
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.
My co-founder, Aaron Parecki, and I share a belief: Things happen in places. We all carry around incredibly powerful mobile phones in our pockets, and we spend all our time interacting with them and not with the world around us. We believe that location services should be an invisible trigger for actions that take place on the device or in the cloud.
Aaron and I set out to start a company that would help developers create calm applications that recede into the background and only present themselves to users when they have contextually relevant actions or information to share. Our hope is to get people to look up from their screens and go about their daily lives.
The reality is that building a location service within an application is complex and time-consuming.
You have to figure out how the different mobile platforms handle location features, how you’ll enable push-messaging in these different environments, how to set up a system for storing the geodata, how to create a method for tracking and analyzing the data, and, most importantly, how to make your location app accurate without draining the phone’s battery.
We founded Geoloqi to hide all the complexity of developing a location service “under the hood”. Geoloqi has published a robust, next-generation, location-based platform that makes it easy for developers to add location context within their mobile apps.
One of the primary problems with location-tracking apps today is that they have a tendency to drain smartphones’ batteries by always running the GPS in the background, or constantly pinging cell towers. 
Geoloqi uses algorithms that know when to turn the GPS on and off, which preserves battery life. For example, if your app is using a geofence, it knows that the GPS doesn’t have to constantly be running unless the user is near that geofence.
Another problem has been enabling individualized geotriggers. Unlike first-generation location services that use geofences as filters to determine which group of users to send a broadcast message to, our advanced platform allows your application to push messages and execute events to a single end-user at the moment they cross into a geofence, dwell within it, or depart the zone.
The opportunities these geo-triggered events enables are limitless:
Imagine a large retail chain that is able to push their (opted in) loyal customers a message as they enter the store, not only welcoming them to the store by name and providing them with loyalty points for their visit, but also integrated into the chain’s CRM system to allow the app to mention that their favorite item is on sale that day.
Imagine a hotel chain that automatically recognizes that a patron has pulled into their parking lot, automatically checks the user into the hotel, and has their room key and paperwork waiting at the front desk by the time they walk in from the lot.
Alert users to nearby deals by sending them a push notifications when they are within a few blocks of an offer! Use an existing database of offers or use the Geoloqi visual trigger editor to create custom ones. Or, use Geoloqi to give virtual currency for their favorite mobile game if they visit the a venue or store.
Tourism boards can create location-based tours of historical information that will send messages to users about points of interest as they travel around a city or state.
Trigger a home automation system to turn the lights on when a person gets home, and automatically turn off when one leaves.
The Geoloqi Titanium module enables persistent/ambient background location tracking, intelligent battery management, and transitions smoothly between location sources such as carrier signals, GPS and Wifi for true real-time tracking. It also provides rich location and dwell-time analytics, giving your clients the ability to analyze and take action on location data.
At Geoloqi, we are excited to give you the tools to easily make location services that are present when your user needs them and invisible when they don’t.
Thanks to Appcelerator’s sponsorship, if you download the Geoloqi Titanium module before June 30th you can try it for free for two months, and experience how Geoloqi takes care of the hard parts of geo for you.
Geoloqi CTO Aaron Parecki and Appcelerator CTO Nolan Wright will be doing a webinar at 11Am PST on May 29th, 2012. Check out Appcelerator for details or register for the Webinar directly. You can also follow @geoloqi on Twitter.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
On Feb 23rd, Geoloqi launched to the world the next generation location platform aimed at revolutionizing location. We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response we’ve received. We’re excited to share some of the great coverage below:
The Holy Grail of Rich Location Data Made Easy with new SDKs from Geoloqi
“The holy grail of mobile geo-location services is persistent, aware, real-time data delivered straight to your device…Portland-based startup Geoloqi thinks it can pull it off.” – ReadWriteWeb
Geolocation Heats Up With Geoloqi’s Battery Saving Tech
“One of the primary problems with location-tracking apps today is that they have a tendency to drain smartphones’ batteries by always running the GPS in the background, or constantly pinging cell towers. With the Geoloqi SDK, however, Case explains that algorithms know when to turn the GPS on and off. For example, if an app is using geofences, it knows that the GPS doesn’t have to constantly be running unless you’re near those geofences, she says.” – TechCrunch
Checking in with Geoloqi: Amber Case of Next-Gen Geo-Tracking and Keeping (some stuff) Free “As of this morning, Geoloqi has opened the floodgates to new users and customers to build upon their platform in what seems to be any direction imaginable. “If it’s a company looking at a mobile strategy that deals with location,” Case says, “We can handle it.”” – Forbes
Geoloqi Helps Location Based Services Take Flight
“Geoloqi offers a cross platform SDK for iOS and Android that can be ported to Windows and other devices and can work on any carrier network. Developers can enable geofencing, automatic check-ins and location-based messaging, which is one of the most promising opportunities for marketers to target consumers. There’s also rich analytics for tracking users, dwell time, visitors and geofencing.” – GigaOM
Cyborg anthropologist’s startup brings people & computers closer together
“The startup has been the buzz of the Internet for a couple months, but today marks its official launch as well as the availability of its fully agnostic SDK for iOS and Android, as well as its proprietary API.” – Venturebeat
Geoloqi Offers Up Tools so Location Apps can Finally Realize Their Potential
“The Geoloqi SDK enables accurate, customizable geofencing, auto check-ins, and automatically manages a device’s battery life while using location, so users can run the app all day without significant battery daring.” And that fact that it plans to offer up this technology for other developers means that a fleet of battery-saving, more immersive location apps could hit in the foreseeable future.” – Digital Trends
Geoloqi Launches Platform for White Label Geolocation Apps
“With Geoloqi, we’re able to track our personnel in real-time, anywhere in the world, on any device, ultimately saving lives in the process,” said David Ayres, of TATE, Inc.” – SiliconAngle
Geoloqi exits beta, reveals geolocation tools for enterprise developers
“Geolocation has the potential to become an indispensable part of our lives,” said Amber Case, CEO and founder of Geoloqi, in an interview with FierceMobileContent. “But in order for geolocation to be a valuable service to end users, the technology needs to be invisible yet opted into, private, and secure.” – Fierce Developer
Real-Time Location Platform Heats up on iPhone, Android
“We want to bridge the first generation of location services to the next generation of location services. Not just point based. Not just carrier based. Not just one aspect of location services,” said Geoloqi’s Amber Case.” – ProgrammableWeb
Portland’s Geoloqi Launches its Next-Generation Location Tracking Platform
“Geoloqi’s technology runs in the background of smartphones, passively tracking their location. It handles the information instead of working through a third party. That’s a change from today’s standard location apps, which require effort on part of the user.” – Oregonian
Geolocation Takes Off
“Geoloqi features a language agnostic SDK for iOS and Android, with a complete stack of geolocation tools, including geo-fencing, messaging, security and analytics. Their secret sauce is in the algorithms that conserve battery life, minimizing GPS, WiFi and cellular pings, while delivering 20 ft accuracy with “opt-in” control.” – Daily Wireless
For more press resources and coverage, visit the Press Page, and you can follow Geoloqi on Twitter as well!