From the monthly archives: May 2007

The Where 2.0 “Conference So Far” post

On May 29, 2007 By admin

Quick update with what’s been going on with us at Where 2.0 thus far.  First and foremost, GeoCommons is now officially launched as of last night’s Launchpad event.  Thanks to everyone who helped us out during our initial testing phases and gave us great feedback on how to make it better.  We’re looking [...]

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Embedding GeoCommons in WordPress and Why Project Red is Important

On May 25, 2007 By Sean Gorman

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One of the goals with GeoCommons is to enable people to raise awareness about information – whether it is a cause, the news or just a promotion. Along those lines we’ve designed it so any of the data you find or load into GeoCommons can be syndicated, allowing anyone to [...]

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Closing the Venture Round: Excitement, Relief, and a First Step

On May 16, 2007 By Sean Gorman

It was a good day at FortiusOne to be able to announce the close of our VC round. We’ve been working on it for a while and it is definitely a combination of relief and excitement to have it done. It is always a learning experience and we are thrilled to have In-Q-tel and Chart [...]

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PollMappr – Syndicated, Geographically Aware Polls (or Beer and Cage Matches)

On May 8, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Since we decided to put off the GeoCommons launch till Where 2.0 we had an empty void to fill – the over whelming urge to launch something. Since we need immediate gratification of some sort we decided to push out PollMappr. Mookie and Matt came up with PollMappr between Unreal fun on Fridays. The basic [...]

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Mapping the News – Syndicated Maps for Citizen Cartography

On May 7, 2007 By Sean Gorman

Lately, we’ve been running a small project with our data team to see how fast we can produce maps relevant to breaking news. One of our hopes is that GeoCommons will provide a repository of data that you can quickly find or contribute data that provides a geographic dimension to breaking news. One of the [...]

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Launching GeoCommons at Where 2.0

On May 3, 2007 By Sean Gorman

We made the decision to postpone our launch a few weeks so we could do it at Where 2.0 along with the Ignite event on May 28th.  Should be a great forum to kick things off and lots of geo type people to give us feedback and hopefully come play with it.  The good [...]

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