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Raffi Krikorian (Twitter)
The notion of "place" is a critical piece of context in a lot of digital interactions. How can you build a system to handle that?
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Matthew Russell (Digital Reasoning Systems)
Learn how to harvest, store, analyze, and visualize your geo data from popular social web properties such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Where do all of your friends usually hang out? Where does most of your professional network reside? What role does geography play in who you friend on Facebook? These are the kinds of questions you'll learn to answer in this workshop.
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Scott Hotes (Location Labs)
The mobile apps of tomorrow must take into account much more about users than their check-in histories. Learn how to approach mobile development to derive meaningful user data and deliver true business value.
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Nicole Ozer (ACLU of Northern California),
Chris Conley (ACLU of Northern California),
Francoise Gilbert
Location information is valuable — and so is your users’ trust. Get the inside track from VCs, privacy officers, and lawyers at the ACLU about how to avoid privacy pitfalls and make early decisions that are good for users and the bottom line.
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Adam DuVander (ProgrammableWeb)
It's easier than ever to get a map on your website with one of the many APIs provided by Google, Microsoft, MapQuest and many others. Adam DuVander, author of Map Scripting 101, will show you how to do that and more in this workshop. Using Mapstraction, an open source wrapper library, you can write code once for a dozen different map providers.
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Peter Skomoroch (LinkedIn)
Learn about the newest geo-analytic tools and services.
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Bernie Hackett (10gen)
This workshop will include hands-on experience working with location data in MongoDB. Data sources will include at least a Zip code listing from the US Census and geo-coded transit stops. No MongoDB experience required, but you should have it downloaded to your laptop if you want to follow along.
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Kathryn Hurley (Google),
Mano Marks (Google, Inc. )
With Google Fusion Tables, a few clicks can turn a large tabular data file into a customized, data driven map or other visualization. With a simple user interface for querying their data, and styling it, users can create highly customized maps. And they can share their data with others while preserving their attribution. So come, learn to build your own data driven map, no programming required.
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Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Brady Forrest and Laurel Ruma welcome you to Where 2.0.
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Dennis Crowley (foursquare),
Robert Scoble (Rackspace)
Robert Scoble, Rackspace tech journalist, and Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, kick-off the morning with a discussion about the state of the location technology space and where it needs to go next.
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Patrick Meier (Ushahidi)
This presentation highlights how crowdsourced crisis mapping is being used for disaster response and outlines the new role that online volunteer communities like the Standby Task Force are playing in this context. The presentation also explains why both crowdsourcing and crowdfeeding are key to the future of disaster response. Examples from various Ushahidi projects will be shared.
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Jack Dangermond (Esri)
With the pervasiveness of mobile technology and greater opportunities for crowd sourcing, it has become possible to integrate everything that moves on the planet into a geospatial framework.
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Krissy Clark (KQED Public Radio)
The best journalism is like a map. It shows where you are in relation to others; it provides a sense of topography, a glimpse in to a new world, or a better understanding of a familiar one. Ideally, journalism helps citizens and communities discover where they are, so they can better decide where they are going.
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Microsoft)
Keynote by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Microsoft
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Scott Kveton (Urban Airship, Inc.)
Location-aware smart phones have marketers salivating at the chance to begin sending more relevant marketing messages, but unless they learn from a new wave of successful applications, their customers will tune out.
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Thor Mitchell (Google Inc.)
Google Maps API Premier has become the go-to enterprise web mapping solution. New developments with the Fusion Tables API and Places API extend the functionality of the Google Maps and Google Earth for businesses.
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Andrew Turner (GeoIQ)
We've reach a pinnacle of open location data and mapping visualization. The cutting edge is now in allowing conversations around location through shared understanding. Collaborative are allowing citizens to share climate models with scientists and mobile developers to work with businesses on social media campaigns. Learn about how collective location intelligence is evolving Where2.0.
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Hamid Schricker (Fwix, Inc.),
Jacek Grebski (Badger Media Inc.),
Lukas Biewald (CrowdFlower),
Maria Zhang (UrbanQ, Inc.),
Jeffrey Martin (360cities.net),
Kris Kolodziej (Verizon Wireless),
Benjamin Sann (BestParking.com)
These back-to-back 5-minute launch sessions showcase companies and products debuting at Where 2.0. Come hear what's new!
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Moderated by:
Nick Pudar (OnStar)Panelists:
Robert Scoble (Rackspace),
Daniel Jacobson (Netflix),
Amber Case (Geoloqi)
Always connected 24/7/365 everywhere, at any time? What does it mean? As technology and the social web continue to advance, what are the trends and what do they mean to the individual?
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Jyri Engestrom (Ditto)
A trip, a photo, a destination - they all have a location (or locations) that can be shared. However sharing a location isn't as simple as the base objects themselves. Location needs to be baked into an experience from the beginning. The creator of Jaiku and Ditto explains his methods in this session.
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Grab a drink, mingle with fellow Where 2.0 participants, and see the latest offerings from our exhibitors and sponsors.
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Highlighting the startup ecosystem’s creativity and variety, the Startup Showcase will will give you a chance to see the newest companies entering the location market.
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Robert Scoble (Rackspace),
Daniel Jacobson (Netflix)
OnStar launched the 2011 Student Developer Challenge reaching out to university students and challenging them to try their hands at designing the next OnStar voice application that will keep drivers safely connected on the road. The top six finalists will present to a prestigious panel of judges following the Exhibit Hall reception on Wednesday evening.
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The Startup Showcase judges will announce their picks and reveal the audience favorite. Each winner will get 2-minutes on stage to give their pitch.
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Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are informal after hours sessions that provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs are entirely up to you. We provide the space and time, you provide the engaging topic.
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Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Details coming soon.
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Julia Grace (IBM Research - Almaden)
Online or offline, the location revolution has changed where we go, what we buy and how we buy it. But has it made our lives easier?
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Matt Galligan (SimpleGeo),
Michael Malone (SimpleGeo)
With the check-in getting quickly commoditized, what's the next step in location-aware services? What are some ways that companies can leverage a world of real-time information and capabilities to build new and more compelling offerings?
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Steve Martocci (GroupMe)
Group messaging services have grown in popularity with mobile phone users. These tools enable people to communicate with their real life network, making plans and other group decisions in real-time.
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Diann Eisnor (waze)
Location based services have unique scaling challenges-on the web it is relatively easy to find a million people interested in anything. Now try finding several thousand users in a specific location with a specific phone with a specific app. This talk will focus on the lessons learned in using game mechanics as a start point and explore the shift from a "fun" app to a "functional" utility.
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Genevieve Bell (Digital Home Group - Intel Corporation)
Answering the question, “where are you,” seems perfectly straightforward. It on the surface a question about location. However, location is not a straightforward as: I am here. In this talk, Genevieve uses a series of ethnographic moments to challenge our notions of location, direction, and place to suggest some other ways of making sense of where we might be.
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Ted Morgan (Skyhook Wireless)
This session is a roundup of the trends we saw in the past year and examples of apps using location in cool new ways. Skyhook will also present results of their app surveys which investigate how app developers plan to use location in the future.
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Steven Wise (AT&T Interactive)
How do consumers react to location-based advertising? What are the implications for advertisers, marketers, and publishers within location-based services? Join AT&T Interactive for valuable insights on mobile consumer behavior based on findings from an April 2011 study conducted by The Nielsen Company.
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Kiran Modak (Unsocial)
Unsocial is a location-based business networking app. It's called Unsocial because rather than focusing on your current network, it connects you to the people you need to meet. Unsocial uses geo-location and smart tagging to connect you with business people you wouldn't otherwise meet. It’s also a conference tool, able to deliver dynamic content like agendas, speaker bios and more.
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Lenny Rachitsky (Localmind),
Boris Bogatin (NearVerse),
Paul Smith (C3 Technologies),
David Levine (Geostellar),
Danny Moon (UpNext),
duncan mccall (PlaceIQ),
Babak Hedayati (MobiLife),
Bo Fishback (Zaarly)
These back-to-back 5-minute launch sessions showcase companies and products debuting at Where 2.0. Come hear what's new!
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Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso (The Washington Post)
This session will examine the best ways to map and visualize data.
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Rich Kilmer (LivingSocial)
This talk will show 5 different frameworks that allow a single
language to be used to target native applications on leading mobile
platforms. "Cross-platform" does not mean the exact application
executes unchanged on multiple platforms, but that a single language
can be used to target them.
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