Social-Loco Startup Competition
Enter the Social-Loco Startup Competition for a chance to pitch your company to 100s of
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Social-Loco Conference
Social-Loco will dive into social and mobile web convergence, and what that means for SMB, big brands and consumers. Learn from real-world successes in daily deals, location based services and advertising, mobile marketing platforms and more. Executives from Groupon, Facebook, Google, ATTi, Microsoft and leading investors will address these topics in a highly interactive setting.
Social-Loco takes place on May 5, 2011 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. ChimpIt will be demo’ing there and giving away our cool schwag. Come on out to participate and meet us. We’d love to meet you!
Laya's augmented reality
If you’re still at a loss as to the significance of augmented reality, Layar’s own explanation from inside the app explains it well: “Layar is a tool to browse the world. It enables exploration, more informed decisions, serendipity and fun. [...] While looking through the phone’s camera lens, a user can see houses for sale popular bars and shops, touristic information of the area, play a live game, etcetera.”
Layar aggregates all those little niggly bits of extra information you often wish you knew when visiting a certain new place–the best way to the train station from the point you’re standing on, where the best cafe is, and so on–and overlays it on the real world as viewed through your phone’s camera. And there is a whole lot more functionality that’s waiting to be realized. Layar’s code lets developers create their own informational overlays for the real world. As the Layar release notes, gaming is a significant potential exploit of the code, with everything from advanced geocaching treasure hunts to virtual shooters being obvious possibilities. There are all sorts of social networking uses too.
via Fast Company
Social Mobile is social networking on-the-go. It’s about pairing up the power of social networking with location. Instead of simply meeting someone online, a social mobile app can help you meet someone nearby now, find something to eat within walking distance, or buy that special gizmo around the corner.
Social Mobile apps are relationship-aware and location-aware, meaning they are at the center of a great puzzle—how to make money from hyper-local advertising.
Less Networks combines a network of WiFi hotspots with social networking and mobile advertising. Smart WiFi users are able to find out who and what’s nearby, when they are out and about. The quality and quantity of this kind of information is getting better and better. Today, there are over 300,000 WiFi users who benefit from Less Networks Smart WiFi.
