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Jack Dangermond. Jack Dangermond is an American business executive and environmental scientist. In 1969, he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company. Dangermond ranks 554 on the Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.[1] Dangermond is the company's President and Founder, and he works out of Esri's headquarters in Redlands, California. Dangermond founded Esri to perform land use analysis; however, its focus evolved into GIS software development, highlighted by the release of ARC/INFO in the early 1980s; the development and marketing of ARC/INFO positioned Esri with the dominant market share among GIS software developers.

Jack Dangermond speaking at Harvard, 2006 Early life and education[edit] Jack Dangermond grew up in Redlands, California, as the son of Dutch immigrants.[2] His parents owned a plant nursery in Redlands.[3] Dangermond attended Redlands High School Awards and honors[edit] Geo Web. Where api. GIS. Gps 1.

Location Based Social networking. Mobile Mapping. Géo. Hyperconnexion. GreatLocation LandRush2010. Back in November, at our Realtime CrunchUp event, I sat on the geolocation panel with members of Twitter, Foursquare, SimpleGeo, GeoAPI, Hot Potato, and Google. At one point, I raised the question if location was going to be the next battleground between startups large and small, much like social identity plays (Facebook Connect vs.

Google Friend Connect) and status updates (Twitter vs. Facebook). All of the panelists indicated that it wouldn’t be, because they could all get along. How sweet. Sadly, I don’t believe them. I’m sure some of them would counter that because location data is fairly standard right now, and moving easily between services, all of them will win. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams writes today that “We will be looking at how to integrate the work Mixer Labs has done with the Twitter API in useful ways…” and notes that they’ll be working on adding contextual local relevancy to tweets. In my mind, this is how this is shaping up. Game on. [photos: flickr/Serge Melki] Geospatial Revolution Project | A Public Media Project.

GeospatialRevolution (geospatialrev) Geospatial Revolution. TheMobileCity MichieldeLange. Cartography: the old versus the New. On December 14th 2009 De Balie – an Amsterdam-based center for culture and politics – organized an evening about old and new cartographies. Participants were Ferjan Ormeling (Emeritus Professor Cartography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University), Henk van Houtum (Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Political Geography, Head of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research), Maarten Keulemans (science journalist), Jelle Reumer (director Natural Museum Rotterdam, Special Professor at Utrecht University), Lucas Keijning (NEMO science center), and me. The evening was lead by Volkskrant journalist Martijn van Calmthout. The evening was set up as a prelude to the presentation of a new world map the day after in The Hague. From the announcement: We have been making maps for centuries, to establish territorial borders or mark safe routes.

A map is a model of reality, and the terrain of a fascinating branch of science: cartography. Then Henk van Houtum and I joined the discussion. RiseOfLive GeoStreams. Today at the RealTime CrunchUp, representatives from some of the top companies involved in location based services came together to talk about the current state and future of geo-based services. Participating in the panel were: Matt Galligan, co-Founder of SimpleGeo Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform at Twitter Tristan Walker, VP of Business Development at Foursquare Steve Lee, Group Product Manager Google Maps for Mobile and Google Latitude Justin Shaffer, Founder of Hot Potato Elad Gil, CEO of Mixer Labs Moderators were our own Erick Schonfeld and MG Siegler. Video by Ustream Early in the panel, the conversation turned to SimpleGeo, the new infrastructure for location that was revealed earlier this week.

Shaffer spoke about how excited he was about the new service. When asked if anyone could copy what Foursquare was doing, Walker talked about Foursquare’s efforts to filter content (which is harder to reproduce). LocMissing Linkocial Networks And The Rea. Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in. Though they’d never admit to such a thing, the reasoning should be obvious: The longer you’re at your computer, the more time you’re spending on their sites. The more time your spending on their sites, the more ads you’re being served. The more ads being served, the more money they are earning. No matter why these sites originally started, or what features they add, that is, quite literally, the bottom line.

They’d have us strapped to a chair with our eyes taped open like Alex in A Clockwork Orange, if they could. Thankfully, we don’t quite live in that world yet. Social networking has been perhaps the most popular trend on the Internet over the past several years. Ever since the term was born, countless people have debated the implications of taking social interactions virtual. Future of Geo-Tagged Marketing. How Local Businesses Benefit From Mobile Social Networks « W. GeoPlace. MajorMobile marketing trends 2010? Mob. By Giselle Tsirulnik December 15, 2009 Look into my crystal ball In 2010 brands will allocate larger portions of their digital media plan towards mobile to further capitalize on the most personal marketing medium out there.

Moxie Interactive, Millennial Media, 1020 Placecast and the Mobile Marketing Association expect growth in mobile in 2010. “I believe that mobile Web and application advertising will still be the focus in 2010 and will have most of the attention of marketers next year,” said Federico Pisani Massamormile, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based CEO of Hanzo Inc. and global chairman/interim CEO of the MMA. Here are some of the trends that industry experts forecast in 2010: Augmented realityAugmented reality will likely gain traction in 2010, but will remain a bell and whistle compared to list and map view. 1020 Placecast believes that 2010 will be the year that this exciting technology begins to be adopted on mobile phones. Some retailers will get it and others will falter. LocationShare just game? It seems incentives important to keep people coming back but what happenes when people get bored? Incentives in location: Foursquare leaderboard, mayor deals, Gowalla: items and prizes, Waze, prizes, Rummble, local heroes So, are people sharing their location for the social gain, the exhibitionism, or the gaming Long-term use of these services depends on a solid product and people wanting to use them.

All the hottest location-sharing services use some sort of gaming element to get users hooked, but will we ever be 100% comfortable with people knowing where we are? As the number of services that let us share our locations increases, it’s apparent that most of the more popular one use a gimmick that encourages us to let everyone know where we currently are.

Just look at Foursquare’s leaderboard and mayor deals, Gowalla’s collectable items and Waze’s ‘Road Goodies’. Most of the big names in geolocation are using games to get us used to sharing. [Image modified from an original by The Fayj] Alexander van Dijk &#124 tobedetermined! 5BigLBS Predictions 2010. GPS-aware mobile devices have become commonplace, which means connecting the dots between what you're doing and where you're doing it is easier than ever. In 2009, location-sharing applications finally emerged in user-friendly formats, altering the way we think about where we are and helping us understand more of the meaning behind the data in aggregate. Technology early adopters showed a predilection towards mobile location-based games, discovering that check-ins could mean something and that being the mayor of a venue might earn them a free drink.

Now that businesses are actively exploring the opportunities that these location-aware services provide, we'll see location matter more than ever in 2010. 1. Facebook Status Updates Will Become Location-Aware The writing is on the wall. Facebook is already encouraging members to be more open. In the same spirit of openness, Facebook would certainly profit by implementing opt-in location-aware status updates. 2. 3. 4. 5. LBS Consulting. BreakinUp inaDigital Fishbowl. Palm/Appl Patent LB Serendipity. Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location? – GigaOM. For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services.

These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its own sweet time, with the LBS dream constantly being deferred. Fast-forward to today — thanks to new services such as Geodelic, Where and FourSquare, we’re beginning to see that mythical future become an actuality. (Related: our posts on Geodelic, Where) If 2009 was the year when “geo” became a buzzword and gathered momentum, then 2010 is going to be the year when location-based functionality is going to become commonplace — from mobile apps to consumer devices, even to web services are all going to be geo-enabled.

Last week when we were chatting about the industry, Morgan pointed out that he was “surprised how many people were talking about location.” Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Location – GigaOM. It’s clear that location is an opportunity ready for its time, but making technology smarter by knowing where we are needs to happen as part of a platform, not be an end unto itself. That’s why I found — and I think many entrepreneurs, developers and investors will find — Phil Hendrix’s new report for GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d) particularly useful. There’s a lot going on here and it’s helpful to get all the pieces in one place. “Location: The Epicenter of Mobile Innovation in 2010” is immr founder Hendrix’ 56-page primer on the space. And here are some of his takeaways I found most interesting (all direct quotes from the report): * Tectonic shifts are (i) making geodata “free”; (ii) improving the level of detail and accuracy of geodata; and (iii) enhancing the variety, richness and usefulness of maps and geodata.

. * Given its ease of use and intuitiveness, one application in particular — Visual Search — will soon come to dominate search on mobile devices. What's Next For Geolocation? Apps, Apps, Apps. Geolocation social networks are set to be in 2010 what microblogging was in 2008 - the next big thing. Currently the space is being dominated by Foursquare, with others like Gowalla, MyTown and Loopt trailing in its wake. While Gowalla has secured a large amount of funding, some $8.5 million, and My Town claims more check-ins than the other services, Foursquare is happily ticking along on the seed money provided by its founders (after they sold their original effort, Dodgeball, to Google), and creating a community of developers who are eager to build secondary applications.

There are two reasons Foursquare is gaining so much ground over its competitors. This is a guest post by Simon Salt, the founder and CEO of IncSlingers. He is a writer and blogger whose work has appeared in a wide variety of places, including Chris Brogan's Dad-O-Matic.com, American Marketing Association News and the Austin Realtor. Firstly, it is available on all phone platforms.

New secondary applications. Location Data and Privacy Subject of Congressional Hearing Next. Geolocation is quickly emerging as a big new platform to build all kinds of cool services on top of. While there's a whole lot of potential - there's also growing concern about the privacy implications of this flush of data about where we are. Thus it's timely that a committee of the US House of Representatives is holding a hearing next week to investigate the issues between commercial use of location data and consumer privacy.

Below you'll find information about that hearing and five other top stories from the past 24 hours around the web on geolocation, selected with assistance from OneSpot. Speaking of location, watch this space for forthcoming announcements about ReadWriteWeb research reports and events focused on location as a platform. "It seems that over the years whenever LBS [location based system] technology makes advances into the consumer space the topic of privacy and security creeps up - and for good reason," writes Glenn Letham of GISuser. In other location news today... Google, Loopt, Twitter Discuss Location as a Life Stream: SXSW. These are my real time notes from the “You are your Location” panel at SXSW.

Ryan Sarver – Twitter Steve Lee – Google Latitude Clara Shih (Moderator) – Author of the Facebook Era Sam Altman – Loopt Tina Unterlaender – AKQA agency Here is a summary of what stood out for me: Google Latitude will soon expose an APIGoogle is looking to add location to many of their properties. Example: a calendar app that turns on Latitude for specific timesLocation recommendations are coming. Large check-in / location data sets are being built.8M current users of Geo apps, 40M users of mobile local directories like Yelp.Just like growth in broadband drove the web’s growth, growth in Smartphones is driving geo appsLots of work being done on location prediction – predicting where you will go based on your past checkins. On the aggregate, this could impact city planning, traffic, etc.There is no such thing as anonymous location data. 90% of room uses geo apps. Altman: set of all places you’ve been.

Privacy? Behind The Scenes, Location Turf Wars Have Begun. Over the past several months I’ve moderated or been on a number of panels with many of the top players in the location space. A common theme keeps recurring. When someone brings up rivalries between any of the companies, it is always downplayed in favor of an “everyone wins” message. I’ve been skeptical of that since day one, but as the space has exploded, there have been signs that a lot of companies are winning (as evidenced by both usage and fundraising).

But now, as the space matures and larger rivals enter, things are starting to get more testy. The most obvious rivalry is between Foursquare and Gowalla. On Monday, another competitor in the space, Loopt, released its latest location app, Loopt Star, which asks users to check-in places to engage with brands. Earlier today, Loopt CEO Sam Altman tweeted out that he thought Foursquare was blocking the IP address of his office. Shameless. All of this is to be expected. [photo: flickr/dpstyles] iOS 4 Is Going To Up The Ante For Location-Based Startups. Yesterday, Robert Scoble wrote a post about “Foursquare’s Yelp problem.”

It’s an interesting read, with some good thoughts about how Foursquare can withstand feature-copying from a much larger rival. He asked for my thoughts, so I figured I’d jot some down here. Most importantly, his post got me thinking about the next phase of location, which I think we’re just about to enter. First, Scoble’s thought that Foursquare might be in trouble because Yelp copied its check-in badge idea seems a bit premature to me. As we all know, Yelp was built as a rating and review system for local restaurants. Scoble also mentions that it might be wise for Foursquare to buy another service to bolster its offering. Another idea Scoble brings up is a “check-out.” The problem with a check-out is that it’s total feature-creep. Obviously, this would auto check-out would need to be opt-in, but it seems like the perfect initial use of the new iOS with background location.

How To Stalk Yourself Online With Location Services. De Hybride Stad - page 82. Lukies. Proof That Location’s Gone Mainstream: The Celebrity Stalking Ap. Hoe?Zo! Radio wisk inf cartografie 27:50-- Bettina Speckmann. The Future of Location Services: Recommendation. Behind Foursquare and Gowalla: The great check-in battle. Locative Hypertext. Britglyph. How Location Services Could Impact Health Care. The New Geolocation Conundrum. Don’t check in everywhere you go guys!