Interview with Jerome Touze, Founder & CEO of WAYN
WAYN (Where Are you Now) is a web social network that lets people connect based on where they’ve been, where they are now, and where they’re going to be in the future. The company has received $11M in series A funding in November, 2006. It has about 8.5 million users so far and is growing at a rate of 15 to 20 thousand users per day. I caught WAYN’s founder and CEO Jerome Touze while he was visiting his company’s development center in Poland. We talked about how location can play a central role in online communities. Jerome also shared with me his thoughts on LBS and how he’s heading his company in that direction. Continue reading »
(3 votes, average: 6.67 out of 7)NearbyNow: Location-Based Shopping
NearbyNow allows shoppers to find products that are sold at their local stores. So far the company has received two rounds of funding worth 2.5M & 5.5M US$ both led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. My conversation with Dan Steinman, Co-Founder & VP of Customer Relations, shed a light on the company’s strategy, mobile shopping usage behaviour, and the product decisions that drive user acceptance of promotional mobile alerts. Continue reading »
(5 votes, average: 5.8 out of 7)Jaiku’s S60 Client Gets LBS’d. BrightKite Starts Location-Based Notifications.
Two interesting location-based services news for today. The first one is about Jaiku’s upgrade of their s60 smartphone client. The new version does a couple of pretty nifty things from an LBS perspective. And the second piece of news is about a newcomer into the LBS marketplace fresh out of an incubator.
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(4 votes, average: 6 out of 7)Interview With Socialight CEO, Dan Melinger
Socialight lets you use your cellphone or computer to post virtual sticky notes in a specific location. The sticky note can be a random thought or a well-written recommendation and can hold the form of a written text or a photo (video & audio are coming soon). The company is angel funded with fewer than 10 employees and has already been mentioned on the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Wired Magazine, & the New York Times. I talked to Dan Melinger, co-founder of Kamida, the company behind Socialight, to learn more about the service. Continue reading »
(8 votes, average: 6.25 out of 7)Jaiku’s Mobile Client & Strategy: An Overview
Robert Scoble interviews the two Finnish co-founders of Jaiku: Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Koponen. The discussion about the mobile aspect of Jaiku starts later in the video. Some interesting points: Continue reading »
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