CellGuided is a modern version of traditional treasure hunts. Use a mobile phone to receive directions and solve clues. Any mobile phone will work! No need to fiddle with GPS, SMS, installing applications, etc.

With CellGuided you can create routes, share them with your friends or publish them for all to enjoy.

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The original idea was to build a web service designed to serve isochrone and isodistance polygons. The final purpose of the application, which is an implementation of the web service, is to display bakeries locations within isochrone (or isodistance) polygons, centered around a user-defined point. Users can then get the shortest path to one of the bakeries.

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Know where you are, faster and easier, with BrailleNote GPS. Enjoy travel independence by knowing where you are, where you’re going, and the best way to get there with the BrailleNote Global Positioning System software with easy-to-follow maps.

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With HoudahGeo you may “pin” photos to locations where they were taken.

Just like an expensive GPS camera, HoudahGeo may store latitude, longitude and altitude information right within the image file – invisibly with no loss of quality. HoudahGeo writes EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags.

HoudahGeo also lets you to share your geotagged photos in Google Earth or publish them to Flickr.

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The Next Generation Web, also referred to as the GeoSpatial Web, will closely integrate the ‘physical world’ with the ‘online web’ based on the easy availability of the underlying ‘geographic’ data. This aspect of the Next generation web has started to impact everything from consumer devices, network infrastructure to end-user applications. Abaqus aims to provide the users with an easy-to-use MyGeoDiary service to manage their lives on this GeoSpatial web.

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For a long time, that’s been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering. Every day, a wealth of local information is created — officials inspect restaurants, journalists cover fires and Web users post photographs — but who has time to sort through all of that?

Our mission at EveryBlock is to solve that problem. We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We’re a geographic filter — a “news feed” for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your block.

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Brightkite connects people based on the places they visit in the real world. With Brightkite you can see where your friends are, what they’re up to, see what’s going on around you, and meet real-world friends.

Most people who have tried the service understand that Brightkite doesn’t really track you, it’s up to you to decide how often you “check in”, and at what accuracy. On top of that, we have pretty comprehensive privacy controls.

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Snappr is a service that lets you discover your world. Wherever you are and with any kind of internet-enabled device.

It is a tool which brings you to the relevant information within seconds and presents you that information tailored to your screen-size and device capabilities. There is no difference in the usability and richness of information for Snappr if you ask it find the lowest price of a CD or Book via a barcode or if you’re accessing it’s database for 2D Codes.

Snappr allows you to link any kind of information into a 2D Code and save this link into it’s database. So everybody who has access to the 2D Code can easily retrieve the information you prepared.

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SKOUT enables users of virtually any mobile device currently available to create content—messages, photos, videos—with their handsets and post it to the SKOUT network from any location. SKOUT’s unique location-based software notifies other logged-in users within a predefined radius that someone nearby has posted new information. This enables end users, if they choose, to act and connect live. Whether it’s meeting a friend based on a picture of their location, dropping in on a nearby happy hour promoted by a local bar owner, or taking a chance and meeting someone new because they just posted a cool video, SKOUT offers a new way for people to have fun and connect with others.

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LightPole, Inc. is a software and services company offering carrier-grade server infrastructure and applications that enable publishers to distribute geo-specific content to mobile devices.
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular as personal tools for social networking, calendaring, and location-based services. In the next 5-10 years, mobile phones will supplant PCs as the primary interface to the Web, particularly in applications that increasingly bring the online world into sync with our offline reality.
LightPole’s mission is to bring the world of geo-contextual content to the growing population—now counted in hundreds of millions—of mobile phone users. LightPole publishing services make it easy for publishers, bloggers, and other content providers to distribute content to mobile device users, and to engage those users in interactive communities. No special programming or expensive IT investments are required. LightPole enables publishers to easily extend the publishing systems they already have to reach new markets and build new communities.

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