Web2NewYork » Hyperlocal

Xtify is ‘not a Foursquare, Gowalla play’

Peter Verkooijen — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:17:28 +0000

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.’

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NYC Way, WayFinder win NYC BigApps

Peter Verkooijen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:29:30 +0000

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

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‘New York offers a great physical interface’

Peter Verkooijen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:37:35 +0000

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.’

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NYC Way likely BigApps winner

Peter Verkooijen — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:07:38 +0000

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.

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NYC.is latest take on hyperlocal

Peter Verkooijen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:18:39 +0000

NYC.is another entry in the crowded hyperlocal field. Columbia University graduate student Susannah Vila built the metablog in Drupal and hopes to replicate the site in smaller cities. ‘There’s a lot of opportunity to grow there.’

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