The Hotlist is a ‘geo-social aggregator’ that tells you ‘what is happening around you at any given point in time’. The service pulls in data from sources including Facebook, Twitter and Yelp. ‘A unified geo-database would simplify things,’ co-founder Chris Mirabile said a day before the launch of Facebook Places.

MeetMoi spin-off Xtify offers an SDK that lets developers integrate geo-targeted messaging into mobile applications. ‘We need to work out the issues of all this fragmentation,’ says CEO Josh Rochlin. ‘Noone truly yet gets it.’

NYC Way was both the public’s and the investor’s favorite of the NYC BigApps competition, but the Grand Prize went to Wayfinder.

Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena brought the architectural perspective to geoweb with projects like Fulton Fence. ‘The focus is still on the screen,’ he says. ‘What we are forgetting is the spatial experience.’

New Jersey-based development team Onederr took the no-nonsense approach to the data sets New York City provided for the BigApps Competition. NYC Way is the most comprehensive app in the competition and a clear popular favorite.