Posted by Gleep on 06/15/07 03:28

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:28:57 -0400, "Tony McLaughlin" <tony365@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
>This is my first post to this ng, please bare with me if the topic is not
>germaine.
>
>I represent a group of investors seeking input, developer participation and
>open source collaboration on a geospatial annotation social bookmarking
>application. Our project aims to develop a web app that allows users to
>bookmark locations with multi-media (text, pictures, sound, clips) for
>sharing and community building. Uses include private, community and social
>networking, and commercial.
>
>The spec is for an embed J2ME app in users mobile device to identify
>location (JSR 179, triangulation, etc.) and a web platform that reads
>positioning from the mobile app, or users may enter positions manually and
>forego the mobile app (address, lat / long, etc.). Both web based and mobile
>web platform.
>
>Think convergence of YouTube with wikipedia (ala "what I know about here is.
>. . "), LBS, Friendster, geoblogging, and del.icio.us. Whatever you like
>about a place, bookmark it and add notation. Bookmark yourself as a
>travelling spot on the map, and tag yourself up and down. Connect with
>people based on tags. Need a date in your area of Sticksville? Drive to a
>new city and find the top rated pizza place, who died where, who is single,
>what local book club meets where, etc. etc. etc. Walk to your corner and
>search for "taxi cab" and have the nearest one pick you up. Form a private
>club for your friends ala Dodgeball.com and let everyone know where to meet
>you. Talk about that new doggie park with the cute chics and where it's
>located. A virtual signpost with annotation for any tag you can imagine, the
>community builds and shapes the site.
>
>We are looking for input, collab, open source developers. I am the cash guy
>and principal, and willing to give "sweat equity" to hardcore developers
>with vision. We have a bootstrap budget, and connects with a biz angel who
>knows the product will work, but the devil is in the details. This is a no
>brainer, but requires a community effort.
>
>Could use feedback and open source participation, dialogue, a list of folks
>to sign up for the prototype release (6 months) and testing, UI experts, GPS
>/ GIS experts, telecom engineers, mappers, Flash artists, LAMP jockeys, Java
>jockeys, DotNet jockeys, visionaries at home in your P.J.'s.
>
>You can respond via this post or email my team here:
>mark_farkinwar@yahoo.com
>
>Thank you for your time.
>
>Regards,



Check out the May 2007 issue of Inc. see page 40
company called Loopt the VC company is Y Combinator.
they have been working on this app since 2005.
how many people e ar walking around with GPS phones
and be willing for fork over an additional $10 a month.
i'd rather get one of those Magellan units, that have
all that GPS stuff 6million or so points of interest.

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