PlanetEye

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Where 2.0

Juan Gonzalez: Vice President, Technology

For the next three days, companies working in the location industry are getting together in Burlingame, Ca. for the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference.

The location industry includes everyone creating, aggregating, analyzing, mapping and searching geographic data. While maps are perhaps the ultimate graphic interface for the Web, most users will only get to know a handful of them. But the ecosystem of companies required to make them happen is vast.

To create a valuable online travel planning service, PlanetEye has contributed to the field by advancing geocoding techniques, aggregating unstructured geodata, fast retrieval and analysis and a superb set of tools for visualizing the data.

In the process, we have discovered that this space has learned important lessons about openness, creating platforms instead of products, services instead of Web sites and, ultimately, fostering a new generation of tools that will propel location-aware services to the forefront of consumers’ minds.

While the full conference schedule is available online, here are some of the talks I’ll be attending:

Of course, you can expect many of these to influence how PlanetEye evolves to integrate the latest technologies in the field.

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Our Canon Rebel XTi Contest

karen: Marketing Coordinator

We are very excited to announce that for the month of May, anyone who signs up for our site is entered into a draw for a Canon Digital Rebel XTi Camera!

What’s more, is once you are a member, anyone who uses the new “Invite” button (located in the top-right corner of the homepage.) Is also entered into the contest. Click here to sign up or log in, and start inviting!