Geoloqi adds Appcelerator, Factual and Locaid partnerships, covered by TIME, Wired, CNet and VentureBeat and more at SXSW
We are pleased to share the news resulting from Amber Case’s keynote yesterday at SXSW Interactive. At the event, she shared that Geoloqi has established three key partnerships with Appcelerator, Factual and LocAid. These three partners help extend the Geoloqi platform into the hands of 1.6 million mobile app developers, to over 350 million phones, with a database including more than 60 million places of interest. The audience filled the room to capacity with 3,200 people and another 1,000 in overflow rooms with a livestream link.
Amber Case speaks to a packed ballroom at SXSW 2012 - Photo by Sheryl Maloney
Press
We’re excited to share some of the great coverage we’ve been getting so far!
SXSW: Why Geo-Fencing Might Change Your Life (and Make You Believe in Location Sharing)
“Imagine a world in which location-based applications were used less to merely identify location than to dynamically coordinate one’s personal data and agenda, making the accessing of information easier and more efficient.” – Time
Smartphone Battery Dead Again? Geoloqi Locates a Possible Solution
“It’s notoriously annoying to handle all of this as a developer,” independent mobile security researcher Ashkan Soltani told Wired. “Geoloqi wraps everything together for third-party developers in a streamlined package, while also adding analytics services to sweeten the deal.” – Wired
How cutting edge geolocation can change everything This afternoon at the South by Southwest festival here, Geoloqi founder and CEO Amber Case gave a keynote talking about the state of the art in geolocation, and how new tools like those from her company and others are changing the world. – CNet
Geoloqi, Solver of the Great Location Problem, Partners Up Portland startup Geoloqi has been heralded as the one company to have finally cracked the code. It’s no accident. “We didn’t want to work on problems everyone is working on,” co-founder Amber Case told me. “We want to solve the hard ones.” – PandoDaily
Geoloqi adds 3 partnerships, extends reach to 1.6M devs
The tools Geoloqi offers can be used to develop with any carrier and on any smartphone. These include geofencing, which allows an application to monitor a specified area and provide interactions to users based on whether they’re in that zone, “battery-safe trigger zones,” which tells an app to reduce its GPS monitoring based on whether a user is near a geofence, and “location-based messaging” which pings a user with information relevant to where they are. – VentureBeat
SXSW 2012 Apps Buzz Is Location, Location, Location Geoloqi makes a host of different location notifications that could have myriad consequences for consumers and businesses. Users can ask for notification reminders (“Don’t forget the tomato sauce!”) when arriving at a destination. – Huffington Post
Geoloqi Extends Platform with Appcelerator, Factual and Locaid Partnerships Geoloqi, a powerful platform for next-generation location based services, today announced strategic new partnerships with Appcelerator, a leading cross-platform mobile development platform; Factual, a large-scale data aggregation platform with a Global Places API; and Locaid, the world’s largest carrier location platform. – Directions Magazine
Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface Case is interested in the next generation of location, one that is ambient because it sits in the background and solves problems. Hence she has developed a platform called Geoloqi, a private location-sharing app to help address her frustrations. At SXSW she announced new partnerships with appcelerator, factual and Locaid to move Geoloqi to the next level. – Porter Novelli Blog
“Cyborg Anthropologist” (and CEO of Geoloqi) Amber Case at SXSWi 2012! When asked how GPS-based apps can change the world, Case answered, “Once you break down the barriers of space, then you start getting superpowers, this omniscient idea of where people are.” – What’s Trending
Location, location, location at SXSWi Geoloqi also found a way to keep battery usage down, a plague on location-services that are always monitoring where in the world you are. – NOW Toronto
Video
We don’t yet have a video link to the keynote from SXSW, but you can see Amber in action on an episode of Qualcomm Spark.
