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Location Labs Shows its Athletic Side
November 15, 2010
Location Labs has always had a close connection with the ultimate frisbee community. Many of our key hires have come from relationships built through this community and the sport continues to provide a recreational outlet for our staff. This past weekend, four Location Labs employees…
Beyond the Checkin with Mayor Maker
November 10, 2010
We were excited to follow Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley (@dens) and Seismic Founder Loic Le Mur (@loic) running the New York City Marathon on Sunday! Earlier, Dennis had provided a Cool Mayor Maker Primer as heads up to the community. Using Mayor Maker (available free on iPhone), both Dennis and Luic were automatically checking into the New York City Marathon Mile Markers! The Blog AboutFoursquare and many users have provided us good feedback on Mayor Maker V1. Continue reading
Location Labs “Sparkles” — New Location & Controls Platform
November 5, 2010
As a developer have you ever wondered what you could do if you had the ability to get a constant location stream, set boundaries around a venue, target customers based not only on their location coordinates but the “context” of what is happening around them such as a music concert or the Giants celebration parade? Well you can now with Sparkle – helping you develop a completely new class of Applications. Continue reading
Facebook’s Location Offering – A Developer’s Perspective
November 3, 2010
Facebook has announced a few items today, following the existing Facebook Places strategy to make location services more mainstream to the 500 million+ Facebook user base. It is good news for all developers including Location Labs. A giant developer ourselves, Location Labs has also recently unveiled Sparkle, a platform for building core, smartphone location based control applications. See our Sparkle Product Page. Continue reading
San Francisco Biz Times & Mobile Excellence Awards 2010 Recognizes Location Labs
October 30, 2010
We are proud to be part of the fastest growing companies in the Bay Area. You can read about us and the other companies in the Fast 100 in the “paper” edition of the San Francisco Business Times, or if have a subscription to the online edition. The rankings were based on a number of criteria but primarily based on three year revenue growth, between 2007-2009. Great job to the entire team. Continue reading
Location Labs in Full Force @CTIA this week in SF
October 5, 2010
CTIA is happening in our backyard this fall and we are excited about attending and meeting you. We are proud to have a pod within the Sybase 365 booth as they are a close partner. Also, we will be participating in a number of sessions and events. Here is where you can find us (you could also simply DM us as well) Continue reading
Mayor Maker Available Now on iPhone App Store
September 23, 2010
Mayor Maker is free, and the first and only app to do both automatic checkins and checkouts on Foursquare. The app optimizes battery life on the iPhone through use of Geofencing Powered by Location Labs. Any developer, business, or retailer can use this Library to create automatic checkin and intelligent location services. Use Mayor Maker, and you’ll be the mayor in no time! Continue reading
Location Labs – One API to Locate 250 Million Phones
September 23, 2010
In case you missed the news from earlier this week, Location Labs announced that its Universal Location Service [ULS] became the first true cross-carrier location aggregator in the U.S. By adding Verizon to the platform, ULS puts the location of 250MM phones into the hands of developers. This includes the ability to locate both smartphones and feature phones… all without special software running on the phone. Because the carrier network is used to determine location, the end user does not need to download anything. Continue reading
On the Road @ Mobile 2.0 in S.F & Social Media Week in LA
September 20, 2010
Tasso will be speaking on a panel at around 1pm: http://mobile2event.com/business-day/ Akash Agarwal will also be speaking on a panel at 1pm. http://momentfeed.com/geo-tech/
Looking forward to seeing you all. Continue reading
Location Labs Sponsoring – The Location Business Summit in San Jose Sept 14/15 2010
September 9, 2010
We will be at Location Business Summit in full force next week and look forward to meeting developers, and other partners. We will be hosting a presentation on Location Based Marketing where our CEO will be speaking on how you can use various location based technologies such as Geofencing to increase customer engagements. Continue reading