Where 2.0 Conference
The Where 2.0 conference starts in San Jose Tuesday, May 29... and several social media mapping mashups will be launching. These startups continue to extend the number of hyperlocal venues that are now populating Web 2.0. Many of the launches are not publicly accessible yet - here is Mashable's short description. I'll check them out this week as they launch:
Dopplr is a social network formed around your locations, and provides calendar and location tools. It looks to be helpful for travel planning, and connecting with others based on your current or future locations.
Fatdoor, still in stealth
mode, is looking to be the wikipedia of people, with a reported 130+
million people and business profiles at launch, to be used for search
purposes. You’ll be able to search groups based on a variety of topics,
keywords and interests, and get results featuring 3D geo-spatial
visualization and user-generated content as publications, adding to the
large index brimming with personal, local information.
GeoCommons is a service to
provide people with a way to tell their stories with maps. This is done
by creating a map mashup, presenting geographically related data sets
on an online map, which will display as a heatmap over a Google Map.
The social aspects of GeoCommons comes into play with the sharing
capabilities of the maps you can create.
Swivel, previously reviewed here, offers graphs and charts on a number of topics, such as extra-marital affairs by country. Data can be shared, and compared with other data sets for an interesting take on correlations. Looks like Swivel will be adding some sort of support for geodata, which will be released at Launch Pad.
UpNext is a 3D virtual cityscape, providing users a way to explore cities. UpNext will offer ways to search visually online to find out what’s going on in their city, or cities, on a local level.
WeoGeo is a mapping marketplace of sorts, utilizing Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services, providing tools for business mapping such as surveyors, engineers, cartographers, and scientists for storing, searching and sharing CAD and GIS mapping products. Users can sell their data sets, and researchers can find the data they need. WeoGeo is also offering a blogging service for sharing stories and ideas, as well as forums and a wiki.
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Boring! They are all rushing to recreate a version of someone elses idea. No consumer value yet!
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