Why Entertainment Will Drive the Next Checkin Craze In recent months, a crop of services have popped up that re-purpose the checkin concept, popularized by Foursquare, and connect it to media and entertainment, as opposed to location. In theory, the idea of checking-in to cultural concepts (like media, music, etc.) and not places is one that doesn't jive in the real-world. It would follow then that the apps that provide this service — GetGlue, Philo and Miso — are silly and far too extreme in ideology to attract anything more than a testbed tech audience. In practice, this alternative checkin behavior is one that is more cultural and familiar than anything the location checkin offers. The Culture of Entertainment Television shows such as Mad Men may not be monster hits when it comes to traditional ratings measurements, but those who do watch tend to do so religiously and with a fervor nearing obsession. Philo is hyper-focused on live television. Miso is also about creating a social television watching experience. The Checkin Connection
Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It's not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it's just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming. According to the comScore study, the average online vacation plan comes together through 12 travel-related searches and visits to 22 different web sites over the course of 29 days. UpTake is a vertical search engine that has assembled what it says is the largest database of US hotels and activities -- over 400,000 of them -- from more than 1,000 different travel sites. What UpTake isn't, is a booking engine like Expedia, a meta price search engine like Kayak, or a travel community. The way UpTake works is by applying its specially created travel ontology, which contains concepts, relationships between those concepts, and rules about how they fit together, to the 20 million reviews in its database.
Tripline's Use of Google Geo APIs Tripline The Google Geo Developers Blog has a great guest post from Byron Dumbrill, Founder & CEO of Tripline. Tripline was one of my Maps of the Week last month. Tripline allows anyone to easily create an embeddable interactive Google Map of a journey or trip. Byron says that another advantage of using the Google Maps API for Flash is that it makes the created maps easy to share. The lesson for other Google Maps developers is that if you want your users to be able to embed your maps then you should seriously consider using the Google Maps API for Flash. Via: Google Geo Developers Blog
Draw Your Itinerary On A Tripline Map Having just returned from a vacation, I’m in the midst of uploading videos and photos so I can send our visual memories of the trip to family and friends. But what if you could create an animated slideshow of sorts that would include an interactive map of your itinerary with photos, videos, Tweets, and even Foursquare check-ins from your trip? Tripline has launched to allow users tell a story of a trip by putting places, images and information on a map. Tripline allows you to create an interactive, embeddable map detailing a trip using your destinations. The most obvious use is to be able to share itineraries and trips with anyone easily and visually. Founded by ex-Yahoo employee Byron Dumbrill, who headed product development for video editing service Jumpcut (which was acquired by Yahoo in 2006); Tripline was created when Dumbrill and his fiancee were planning a lengthy trip to Costa Rica.
About Us A note from Founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill Thanks very much for visiting. We've worked very hard to create something unique with Tripline, and we hope you enjoy what we've built so far. We're still in Beta and we release new features every couple of weeks, so if there's something you'd like to see, click on the [feedback] link to the left, or contact us directly. Share With The People You Care About At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you communicate by putting places on a map. Your Plans Become Your Stories One of the earliest concept slides I put together had a simple statement: "Planning is a creative process". A Window On The World Aside from the most obvious use (travel planning and sharing), we've built Tripline to help you tell any story that involves moving across the map. Maps As Media Objects The story behind the origins of the Tripline concept goes back to May of 2005 - five years ago! The Very First Tripline By the way, here's the same trip, now on Tripline: A Long Road
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Flickr Follow-Up Project Has A Name, Tiny Speck. And They're Hiring. Back in June of last year, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the husband/wife team that started Flickr, left Yahoo to pursue other interests. We already know what Fake’s new project is, the just-launched Hunch. Now we know what Butterfield’s new project is. Or, at least, what it’s called: Tiny Speck. Butterfield sent out a tweet tonight announcing that the new company was hiring. The link he sent goes to a page on a site for the Tiny Speck project. So what is Tiny Speck all about? And the main page doesn’t offer much help either. Below that, you’ll find the logo, and below that you’ll find the link stating that Tiny Speck is hiring. So, is there anything to be drawn from this position they’re hiring for? So clearly this is a creative project — it almost sounds like their making an animated movie. Something else that is interesting is that this is being run out of Vancouver, according to the job posting. Looks like we may be seeing Butterfield returning to his roots.
Bootup Roommates: TinySpeck, Mozilla, & Joyent | Bootup Labs Blog There are a lot of great technologies being developed in Vancouver that we’re proud of, and personally I think we could do a better job telling our story. For example, not many people know of these three world class organizations being developed right in our city, and Bootup Labs is lucky enough to be call them “Roomies”… at least for a little while. Stewart Butterfield‘s TinySpeck has temporarily set up shop in the old DimeRocker office while they wait for their new office to be renovated. Stewart is best known for creating Flickr here in Vancouver, and now splits his time between here and San Francisco. TinySpeck’s first project is called Glitch. Mozilla Messaging’s Thunderbird 3 email client, developed by David Ascher and his team. Joyent’s cutting edge cloud computing technology lead by VP of Engineering, Mark Mayo right here in Vancouver. Like this: Like Loading...
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