WhereCampPDX, a free conference focusing on all things geographical, is being held at the Souk office center in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon on Oct 17-18.
It’s an unconference, modeled after O’Reilly’s WhereCamp and planned by the participants. Everyone gathers together, plans sessions, and have break-outs. It kicks-off with an art opening at Olympic Mills, tonight.
The exhibition is called Equilibrium, the Human Mashup and presents artworks that explore the ways art and technology deal with Momentum, Maintenance, Multiplicity, and Mobility. WhereCampPDX will be running a game at the reception. Players are asked to find another specific person at the reception, when they do, an arrivals board announces that a caravan/ship/train/airplane has completed a journey from one of their hometowns to the other.
On Sunday morning they will play Pac-Manhattan in the nearby North Park Blocks. It’s a chase game that is played by teams of runners and operators. A runner plays the part of PAC-MAN and other players play the parts of INKY, PINKY, BLINKY, and CLYDE.
Geolocation businesses and startups in Portland include:
- Platial (Portland, OR): A free resource where hundreds of thousands of people around the world share and discover all kinds of Places. Anyone can map just about anything including their towns, lives, travels, feeds, files, photos, video and stories in one simple interface. Works with the iPhone, too
- Humaninet (Portland, OR): which does disaster communications and mapping, has a Maps 2.0 initiative availble for people dealing with crisis such as tsunami, hurricanes and other disruptive events.
- Cartosoft (Portland, OR): a geospatial startup based out of Portland, hopes to bring geospatial technology to a broader audience. Sometimes they develop mashups in their lab or integrate existing open-source solutions such as GeoServer.
- FreeRange (Portland, OR): Creates mobile feed readers used by the Wall Street Journal and Portland Trail Blazers among others.
- TriMet’s Transit Developer Resources has dedicated developer site for using Google’s transit feed.
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Makerlab (Portland, OR): is a New Media Prototyping Lab. They specialize in rapid prototyping and interaction design for web and mobile.
- NeutralSpace (Portland, OR): was founded in early 2007 in order to explore and help drive new developments in web 2.0 and social networking technologies.
- WeoGeo (Portland, OR): creates a one-stop marketplace for the mapping industry. Geo-content providers can easily list their data for sale, and users can quickly find the data they need.
- Cloud Four (Portland, OR): Have done the interface design for the Mobile Wall Street Journal app among other things.
- GoLife Mobile (Hillsboro, OR): Building a Java-based framework that runs on practically any handset. They see information flowing between devices and networks, providing personal, context sensitive services.
- Don Park (Portland, OR): Dailywireless.org co-founder Don Park has an Openmoko open-source phone and is developing a mobile social location applications for Android.
- Raven Zachary (Portland, OR): Creator of iPhoneDevCamp, chair of the upcoming iPhoneLive conference, and consultant to a number of iPhone developers in town and around the nation.
- Mobile Portland (Portland, OR): If you really want to stay in tune with what’s happening in the Portland mobile development scene, there’s no better place than the Mobile Portland group. Holds regular meetings to discuss topics affecting the mobile scene.
- The Silicon Florist Blog (Portland, OR): Rick Turoczy runs the website of record for Oregon startups. The TechCrunch of Portland.
IDC predicts internet advertising revenue will surpass newspapers, cable and broadcast TV by 2012. IDC predicts overall Internet advertising revenue will double by 2012, from $25.5 billion in 2007 to $51.1 billion. The Internet, says IDC, will move from the number 5 medium to the number 2 slot in just 5 years, second only to direct marketing.
Here’s the Schedule:
- Friday October 17th: Art show at Olympic Mills (4-7pm)
- Saturday October 18th;
- 9:00 AM We congregate together
- Breakfast will be provided [ muffins and bagels ]
- 9:30 We will plan sessions collaboratively, with participants posting sessions, getting feedback and picking session slots.
- 10:00 Break out into sessions
- 1:00 PM Lunch
- 2:00 PM Reconvene into sessions
- 6:00 PM Closing circle
- 6:30 PM Evening activities
- Sunday October 19th: 9:00 AM reconvene, Game day
ABI Research predicts the location-based services industry will turn into a $3.3 billion market worldwide by 2013, Research firm Gartner has projected mobile advertising spending will reach $2.7 billion globally this year, jumping a full $1 billion above 2007 levels.
By the end of 2011, Gartner expects that the global mobile ad market to grow to $12.8 billion with a disproportionately higher share in the U.S., due to its higher levels of mobile Internet usage.
Location-Aware Apps for the iPhone (and soon the Google Android phone) include:
- Loopt – free: A Virtual Earth map allows you to see both friends and Yelp search results together.
- AdMob: Mobile advertising that targets the audience and device you want
- Funambol: Open platform design to push location aware ads and sync contacts with other phones, webmail systems & email clients.
- Platial – free: Search or browse millions of Platial geobits – from food to arts and culture to activism to history to recreation and beyond.
- ShoZu – Free: One-click uploading of camera phone videos and pictures to over 30 online social networks, blogs and photo sites. Can geo-tag your photos and videos.
- Kyte Mobile Producer for iPhone: Instantly broadcast pictures as you take them, create slideshows from your iPhone’s picture gallery and chat with your audience real-time.
- Where – free: Released by Ulocate on Sprint last year, it makes it easy for developers to build location-aware widgets.
- Omnifocus – $19.99: It will use your location to help you create location-based to-do list.
- Urban Spoon – free: A restaurant picker
- Twitteriffic, Twinkle and Twittelator – free: Post Twitters and follow people. Twittelator lets you send a link to a map of your location and has a “Twitter 911″ feature.
- NearPics – free: A location-aware photo browser. It uses your location to select local photos from Google’s Panoramio service.
- Whrrl – free: Like Loopt, is shows friends and businesses on the same map but adds more browser functionality (showing places reviewed by friends).
Handango, the leading retailer of smartphone apps, announced today it will be the first retailer to offer both paid and free apps for the Android phone, anticipated to launch on October 22. Customers can purchase apps via the Web and then download them to their device.
There are 1.5 billion TV sets in the world. 900 million personal computers, desktops and laptops. The internet had 1.3 billion users at the end of 2007. But mobile subscribers have topped 3.5 billion.
Organize your friends — this train is leaving the station. Create something new. Something vital. Wireless broadband is about to get Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.
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