Location, Location, Location - more than 40 WHERE widgets available for Nokia Devices
Written by LBSzone
Monday, 19 May 2008
With some 35 million GPS-enables Nokia devices expected to ship this
year users need to take advantage of their location. A Tip... With WHERE from uLocate Communications, Inc. it is easy to add applications that give you information based on where you are at the moment.
With WHERE from uLocate Communications, Inc. it is easy to add
applications that give you information based on where you are at the
moment. It’s almost like your phone has answers. Answers to questions
like: I just got off the plane, what will the weather be like here
tomorrow morning? Or: I’ve never been in this part of the city before,
where is the nearest brew pub? Or even: I don’t want to have dinner
alone, where are my friends right now? WHERE applications make it easy
to act on the answers with such features as click-to-call, get
directions to, or see a map based on the answer. Users can also send
the location of their selection to a friend via short message service
(SMS).
WHERE widgets are small applications that are built on the WHERE
platform. One reason there are already more than 40 widgets available
for Nokia devices is that the platform makes it simple for developers
to access a device’s global positioning system (GPS) data through an
easy-to-use scripting language. “The WHERE platform allows developers
to focus on creativity instead of application plumbing,” notes Dan
Gilmartin, vice president of marketing, uLocate Communications, “and
creativity pays off. Location-based services (LBS) built on the WHERE
platform were awarded ten of the fifteen semifinalist nominations in
the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge — Americas.”
Grand Prize Winner: SkyMap
The Skymap is a new application that uses GPS-enabled mobile devices to
display the current sky at the user's current location. The Skymap is a
project Mediated Spaces, Inc., an interactive design studio based in New York, NY.
Runner Up: Mapicurious
Do friends always ask you to recommend places to eat or places to go?
Maybe you ask your friends or acquaintenances places for yourself when
you travel? Mapicurious allows users to create their own maps with
interesting points nearby and share them with others.
Runner Up: DigOrDis
DigOrDis lets consumers rate restaurants or businesses by giving them a
thumbs up or down. Users can rate resturants and businesses on the fly,
and search for the most digged places around. DigOrDis puts the power
back in the customers' hands!
Runner Up: Voicemap.mobi
Voicemap.mobi is a mobile and web based system for leaving voice notes
tied to a particular location. Users can record private or public
location voice notes on their cell phone then listen to them on the web
and/or publish them on twitter.
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