Top Startup

Location is the web’s new frontier 2.0

Where are you tweeting? Where are you blogging? Where was that picture taken? Where are your friends?

It’s a big world out there and location is an axis on which everyone is dying to slice you up.

You don’t have to be on the terrorist watch list to get value putting your location online. I’ve picked my horse and it’s Fire Eagle.

There are a bunch of other horses for storing your location. They are irrelevant. Everyone else wants to trap “where” in a walled garden. Fire Eagle allows developers to create applications around providing your location. I’m using Navizon on my iPhone to update Fire Eagle. Fire Eagle also allows developers to create applications that utilize your location. Dan Choi helped me build the map to the right using Fire Eagle ->.

Why should I tell Twitter where I am and Google Maps where I am. I want to tell Fire Eagle where I am and let Fire Eagle tell everyone else - at the level of granularity I choose.

Developers take notice: Support fire eagle for location based services or you are a second tier web 2.0 app.

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Where am I blogging now?

Topstartup has been sparse recently. Not necessarily because I am not blogging, more because I am really busy and blogging elsewhere:

Work

• Virosity blog - the blog for my employer
• good2gether product blog - the blog about new releases of good2gether, our current project

Fun

• bikeacrossthe.us - the blog (work in progress) about the upcoming cross country bike trip
• colin.nederkoorn.co.uk - my tumble log. Short blog posts and cool things I come across on the web. This is the one place that aggregates everything I do on the interwebs, including this site.

Not to say that I won’t be spending my time writing articles for Top Startup. I intend to post now more when I have something meaningful to say, rather than to keep to a schedule.

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It’s the freakin beacon speakin

I added a new review to Yelp! and understood Facebook’s Beacon all at the same time. It’s powerful, and a very good idea. Im slightly impressed Read the rest of this entry »

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tumblr is a cool way to aggregate public (and some private) lifestream data

I’ve got this blog, I’ve got pintmaster.com, I’ve got a picasaweb account. It’s a confusing mess! I’ve got lots of “stuff” I need to share with friends. Granted, i’ve got my rel=me links in the sidebar. But, giving you guys that stuff to do something with isn’t enough. We’re all lazy. We want someone or something else to do the heavy lifting. In comes tumblr Read the rest of this entry »

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iPhone call logs = lifestream data

Beyond open social networks, I’m interested in lifestream data; data that answers the questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? - Who is doing it?, What are they doing?, Where are they doing it? When are they doing it? Twitter attacks the “what” problem well. Their goal is to capture anytime, anywhere what you want to disclose you are doing and make it public. Well, this is all good and well, but I’d like to know a little more. Read the rest of this entry »

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