In preparation for our inaugural Metaplaces event, I recently spoke with Keith Ippel,CEO of Lat49.
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Jon has been in the location-based services field since it's inception. He has 15 years combined experience working with location technologies, GIS, geospatial services, geodata, wireless location network infrastructure, and GPS-enabled handsets, in a wide range of roles as an industry analyst, product manager, industry solutions manager, director of developer marketing, and vice president of business development. He is currently an independent consultant and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of London where he teaches a graduate course in location-based services.
A Feature of Latitude
Eventually, all early tech innovations become common features of larger tech innovations. It's a natural, often disruptive development in market maturation cycles.
It's a Client Thing. Put it On The Client!
For the last three years, I've watched a trend moving mobile location away from network controls and Web services and into client controls with device APIs, rendering servers useless in transactions and eliminating network smarts and infrastructure from the mix. Following a conversation with Tom Cooper of Openwave this morning, I have to admit that perhaps I was too quick to lose confidence in the value that server vendor experience lends to the conversation.
Why Lastminute Chose Google’s GeoLocation API Over Operator Cell-ID Alternatives
This was originally writen and posted on Sept 8, 2008 on www.maperture.net. TelematicsUpdate requested a re-posting, so here ya go. - Jon
Autodesk Location Services Burn Too Much To Bear
Along with the announcement to layoff 750 across the board, Autodesk has also decided to abandon the Location Services business unit.
Push-To-Publish
LBS advocates have long dreamt of Location as an inherent ingredient in all things mobile - an always on feature to enrich communications, content, and community applications. Indeed, years ago Location was thought of as the only contextual capability that differentiated wireless services and applications from tethered Web applications devoid of location-smarts.
Forthcoming LBS Conferences:
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The Location Business Summit USA 2010 Conference and Exhibition USA is your essential guide to monetizing location based services and the key to helping you open the door to a new world of profits.
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The Tracking Summit is Europe’s only meeting place for high level tracking service providers and positioning enablers. The conference will focus on profit strategies and technology challenges including indoor and ubiquitous location, privacy, power consumption, MNO location data, elevation and much more!
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North America's premier meeting place for senior navigation executives is back for 6th year. This event unites the entire ecosystem, from navigation providers, device makers, map providers and mobile carriers. They’ll be debating the latest trends and monetisation strategies for the navigation industry.
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The Location Business Summit Europe
April, 2011 - Amsterdam - days TBC
The Location Business Summit is Europe’s largest Location Based Services conference; last year attracting 200 senior level attendees. The mobile LBS market has really started to accelerate, but companies are still searching for the winning business strategies. The Location Business Summit has been designed to overcome this challenge, and uncover the tactics to help companies generate serious profit.
