Location-sharing startup Glympse looks to expand its reach with first public SDK

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Seattle startup Glympse has made its mark with time-based location sharing technology, letting people share their spot on the map with others in real time, for a limited period of time. Increasingly the company has also been working with partners — including BMW, Ford and many others — to incorporate the technology into their own… Read More…

GeekWire Calendar: Must-attend events and a ‘One Man Star Wars’ ticket giveaway

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Looking for some great events to attend? You may have noticed our fancy schmancy new GeekWire Calendar and now we’d like to officially kick this baby off with some hot picks just for you. These are our hand-picked events, which we’re compiling in this new feature that will be coming at you each week (or so). And to really get… Read More…

Weaponless defense: React Mobile app notifies contacts, keeps you safe in emergencies

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A weapon, pepper spray or even your fist may not be the best way to keep you safe in times of trouble. It might just be an app on your smartphone. That’s the thought behind Seattle-based React Mobile, a free app that essentially turns your smartphone into an SOS device. “React Mobile, like a fire extinguisher,… Read More…

Meet the new Glympse, easy location sharing for groups

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In what’s being described as the biggest release since its debut, Seattle startup Glympse today rolled out a fresh design as well as new features that makes it easier for users to share location information with groups of people. In the past, users could send Glympse alerts to multiple people, but it was difficult. With… Read More…

You are the machine: CyborgCamps to probe human-technology interaction

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Drop the word “cyborg,” and most casual conversations will take a jarring turn toward Star Trek, Terminator, or Battlestar Galactica, where beastly human-machine hybrids threaten to take over the world. But that’s not what cyborg means anymore — at least not to Amber Case and organizers of two upcoming CyborgCamps: one happening this weekend in Seattle (it’s not too late to snag… Read More…

Where ‘Where are you?’ is: The future of location and discovery

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“There’s a graveyard of geo experiments,” says Amber Case. She’s the CEO and co-founder of Geoloqi, a company that helps mobile developers integrate, track and measure their users’ location data, and she was a panelist at the Location & Discovery discussion at the Privacy Identity Information conference (pii) in Seattle. And she’s right. As smartphone market… Read More…

Whitepages upgrades iPhone app: Now you’ll never forget your neighbors’ names

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When I first moved into my neighborhood, I’d scribble down the names of neighbors on a scrap piece of paper so the next time I’d meet them on a stroll I could refer to them by name. It was a flawed strategy, however, since I never carried the paper with me and I frequently lost… Read More…

Seattle startup Placed nails down $3.4M for ‘location analytics’

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Let’s face it: The startup name of Sewichi never quite rolled off the tongue. A combination of the Korean words se (three) and wichi (location), founder David Shim said the name was always meant as a placeholder of sorts. But the Seattle startup is growing up, ditching the Sewichi name and transitioning to the moniker… Read More…