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Sorry, content has become Queen. I have stressed this in some Dutch interviews over the last days, but the opening of the doors of content has started and can’t be stopped. 2010 is about context.
Context is King – Mathys van Abbe
东城区南锣鼓巷胡同(地安门东大街与鼓楼东大街之间) #圣拿威.酒吧街# 南锣鼓巷是北京一条有着非常特色的酒吧街，是北京保护最完整的四合院区，整条酒吧街以四合院小平房为主，门前高挂小红灯笼，装修风格回归传统、朴实，遵实于四合院的氛围和格调。这里的酒吧大多比较安静，和谐、自然、身居闹市却远离闹市的喧嚣，非常贴近于生活。 北京市海淀区新建宫门路19号 我在颐和园：态度很不端正 忍忍算了 http://t.cn/zjZ6aYM 请稍等
Bedo贝多，基于地理位置的移动交友社区
.DoubleDutch Launches
Lawrence Coburn is the CEO of RateItAll.com , the parent company of brand new location based iPhone App DoubleDutch ( app store link ). Lawrence is also an editor of the location blog here at The Next Web. In this interview, we discuss RateItAll’s new DoubleDutch iPhone app. Chad: So what is DoubleDutch? Lawrence: DoubleDutch is the first white label, geolocation check in app for the iPhone. Now conferences, hotels, companies, universities, etc. can provide a social location experience under their own brands for their own communities.
Geomium aims to be “Foursquare for real life”
Geomium is a new location-based service with grand plans to become the next evolution in personal communication. “With all that Web 2.0 has brought us, Facebook, Twitter, etc, nothing had improved basic social communication over phone calls, emails and SMS”, says co-founder Ben Dowling. ”People today have mobile phones that are permanently connected to the Internet, and location aware. We want to harness this technology to improve communication.”Realtors beware, a project that won in round 1 of the 2009 MIT Arab Business Plan Competition Aqarmap.com has launched a platform that enables the buyers/renters to search the market by browsing an interactive map instead of using keywords alone.
The End of Realtors in the Middle East?
Award winning Aqarmap.com has relaunched with a new interface and some changes based on user feedback in what appears to be some improvements on the platform’s way to do business. In case you don’t remember Aqarmap ( read more about them here ) is a crowd sourced project utilizing Social Networking and Media tools such as Google Maps for real-estate location, Youtube for property tours and Twitter / Facebook for sharing and listing in the social web.