Abaq.us Announces iPhone and Facebook Support for myGeoDiary
Written by myGeoDiary
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Consumer myGeoDiary Service Now Available on iPhone and is Facebook-Connect Ready
SUNNYVALE, CA-August 11, 2009- Abaqus, Inc., developers of geo-social and geo-tracking applications hosted on top of a robust GeoWeb Services Platform, today announced the availability of myGeoDiary for the iPhone. myGeoDiary application on the iPhone lets users record their GPS tracks associated with lifestyle activities such as running, biking, swimming, skiing or any other outdoor or lifestreaming activity, and then directly upload, store and share them at www.mygeodiary.com service on the web. Users can also upload photos which can be automatically geotagged and placed on these tracks. This application is available for branding by business customers and further solidifies Abaq.us' position as a leading provider of location-based social networking service across all positioning devices and connecting to a variety of lifestyle applications on the web.
Abaqus, Inc. today also announced that myGeoDiary users can now easily share their content and activity with their entire Facebook community.
"GPS-enabled devices are becoming ubiquitous." said David Sonnen, an analyst with International Data Corporation (IDC). "With its new iPhone application myGeoDiary, Abaq.us provides an interesting new way for people to share their adventures and interests with friends or their entire social network."
myGeoDiary (http://www.myGeoDiary.com), lets individuals organize, personalize and share their tracks with friends, family or the entire myGeoDiary community. Users can also embed their tracks at a growing number of social networking sites, including Blogspot, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook.
myGeoDiary on iPhone
myGeoDiary Recorder is an iPhone application that lets users record personal GPS tracks and performance data while running, cycling, hiking or skiing or participating in any outdoor activity. Using this application users can record the specific tracks, waypoints & pictures, upload them to the www.myGeoDiary.com website, automatically plot their content on a map, personalize their tracks with rich media content and compare their performance from track to track, day to day and more.
myGeoDiary on iPhone is available for free, until Aug. 16, from Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/ under the "Travel" category.
The application uses the on-board location-aware capabilities of the iPhone 3G and 3GS, which accurately and continuously records a users' location.
Abaqus Inc. had previously announced support for Smartphones such as RIM BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android as well as personal navigation devices and data loggers.
"iPhone support is a perfect example of our continued commitment to expand device access options for myGeoDiary users -- letting them choose the platform that makes the most sense for their lifestyle." said Shailendra Jain, CEO of Abaq.us. "Additionally, with Facebook Connect, we open our service to the entire Facebook community and enable our users to share their geodiaries with their friends at their social network of choice."
Facebook Connect for myGeoDiary
With Facebook Connect, myGeoDiary now enables users to log into myGeoDiary using their Facebook credentials (name / password), share their content and activity with their friends on Facebook (by publishing myGeoDiary track links) and maintain similarities in their profile information between myGeoDiary and Facebook.
myGeoDiary is adding the following Facebook connect features:
Identity: A user can Login to myGeoDiary using their Facebook credentials
Profile: A user's name, photos, and more are now consistent with their profile on Facebook
In the near future, Abaq.us will further enhance myGeoDiary by extending its Facebook integration to include:
Friends: myGeoDiary users will be able to easily invite their Facebook friends to share their geodiary content and activity.
Applications: User's activities on myGeoDiary will integrate with all of the integration points within Facebook, like Facebook widget application, stream stories and notifications.
myGeoDiary is built on top of Abaq.us GeoWeb Services Platform. myGeoDiary is available for co-branding by online brands in fitness, travel, social and general social networking industries. For application developers, the GeoWeb Services platform from Abaq.us includes a suite of Web Services APIs and Web 2.0 widgets in order to enable any partner site to embed geo-social and geo-tracking capabilities into their web and phone applications. The APIs simplify and abstract mobile phone connectivity, map interfaces, location data analytics and Web 2.0 publishing.
About Abaqus, Inc.
Abaq.us delivers GeoWeb Services, the most comprehensive, hosted platform for both location-based social and business applications. Its extensible, software as a service (SaaS) architecture provides the ability to store, visualize, analyze, and utilize data from a variety of GPS-enabled devices across a variety of web applications. Abaq.us also offers myGeoDiary as a branded or white-labeled geo-social and geo-tracking application that allows users to easily and safely organize, personalize and share location data captured on their GPS-enabled mobile devices. Abaqus, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and on the web at www.abaq.us.
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