This via the waze blog… The contest is about munching soccer ball ‘road goodies’ (small icons scattered along the waze maps worth points when driven over) for the win.
Sency Launches First Ever Trends Engine for Popular Places
The Real-Time search engine will display trends powered by the places that are popular right now inside of 24 major cities.
metaio and kooaba: Taking Mobile Augmented Reality to new Levels
MUNICH / ZURICH / SAN FRANCISCO, June 1st, 2010 – metaio`s exciting new "augmented reality" browser junaio® has extended its capabilities beyond the usual location based internet services.
Tip – Go.USA.gov enables Government users to create ,share, track short urls
An awesome resource with some great finds via http://go.usa.gov/. The web service enables users to track and monitor the most popular short urls being used to point people to various government resources.
RealBird Integrates the Facebook Open Graph Platform with Real Estate Single Property Websites
RealBird Inc.has integrated its single property listing websites with Facebook. This enables real estate agents to leverage Facebook’s social media environment to drive growth and engagement on their websites. The cost of the full RealBird service remains a low $99/year.
amAze GPS Offers Location Sharing on Facebook
NEW YORK, May 10, 2010 – LocatioNet Systems Ltd., the developer and provider of the amAze GPS worldwide mapping and navigation service, released today a new version 5.2 of amAze GPS that includes location sharing with Facebook friends.
Appello releases Wisepilot 3.5 – with Traffic Sensitive Routing and Social Network Integration
Gothenburg, Sweden, May 4, 2010: Appello Systems, the supplier of Wisepilot, Europe’s leading real-time navigation and local search service is now introducing Wisepilot 3.5.
Facebook Becomes Real Time Location Based – Pocketweb with First Deep Geo Integration
Sydney, Australia, April 21, 2010 — Just in time for the facebook developer conference, Pocketweb Ltd. uses its award winning location-based social network Pocket Life to show case real time locations of connected friends, places and messages on facebook.
Pegshot Bets Huge on Check-in Fatigue via Location Based Videos & Photos
Drastic expansion of the Pegshot platform connects mobile video/photo enthusiasts, inserts gaming, and further enables people to broadcast their experiences.
PlacePop for iPhone Launches in Germany
SAN FRANCISCO, California – April 13th, 2010 – A German-language version of PlacePop is now available in the iTunes app store.