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The use of location in applications is a key differentiator today. While the current craze towards Location Based Services is gravitated towards deals, coupons and services, we often overlook the most fundamental of them all i.e. the news in your vicinity.

New Outside.in API Feature Zooms to News Around You

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/02/02/new-outside-in-api-feature-zooms-to-news-around-you/
http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/locations-social-paradox/ There’s an absolute eruption of activity around location-based services right now.

Location’s Social Paradox

http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/30/simplegeo-abandoned-games-to-sell-its-in-house-tools/

Why startup SimpleGeo abandoned game making to sell location too

SimpleGeo is a Boulder-based startup now beta-testing its line of software development tools, cloud storage, and other must-haves for mobile application developers who want to easily build location-based services into their apps.

SimpleGeo Presents at Under the Radar Mobility 2009

http://www.undertheradarblog.com/blog/simplegeo-presents-at-under-the-radar-mobility-2009/ With only hints about what they’re up to available to the ‘rest of us’ for the past while, SimpleGeo finally came out of the bag at Under the Radar Mobility today to tell the world what they’re up to. In case you missed it, here’s their presentation and company profile: Company Description | SimpleGeo provides end-to-end solutions to enable location-based services in mobile, web and desktop applications.
Two weeks ago, SimpleGeo raised a $1.5 million seed round from just about every big angel investor in Silicon Valley. Not surprisingly, they’re already putting that money to good use. Before the funding, SimpleGeo was a team of four including co-founders Matt Galligan and Joe Stump . http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/14/simple-geo-beta-keys/

Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces On A Six Aparter, A Hacker, And

De la géolocalisation en mode SaaS avec SimpleGeo - Blogue

This week the world learned that Garmin will adjust how its devices route users to the famous Hollywood sign, which stands in the Hollywood hills above Los Angeles. http://www.directionsmag.com/

Location-API.com API Profile

Location-API.com helps developers and mobile service providers to locate mobile phones and other mobile devices connected to the GSM and WCDMA networks. http://www.programmableweb.com/api/location-api.com
The Postcode IT web service provides functions to obtain address(es) from postcodes.

Postcode IT API Profile

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/postcode-it
http://almaer.com/blog/gears-future-apis-location-api

Gears Future APIs: Location API on Dion Almaer's Blog

Dec 21 I have spoken at a bunch of conferences in Europe this quarter. From the Future of Web Apps, and @mediaAjax in London, to JavaZone and JavaPolis in Oslo and Belgium.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/joe-stump-talks-location-and-n.html

Joe Stump on data, APIs, and why location is up for grabs - O'Re

I recently had a long conversation with Joe Stump , CTO of SimpleGeo , about location, geodata, and the NoSQL movement.

It’s Time For An Open Database Of Places

With last week’s declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates of geo-coded Tweets, the location land rush is in full swing. A long list of companies including Twitter, Google , Foursquare , Gowalla , SimpleGeo , Loopt , and Citysearch are far along in creating separate databases of places mapped to their geo-coordinates. Mapping businesses, in particular, to the GPS locations near where people are checking in, Tweeting from or pegging a photo is the first step to be able to show them geo-targeted ads, which could help fuel local mobile online advertising in a major way.