This weekend I attended the Evo Conference – a new conference dedicated to “The Evolution of Women in Social Media.” It wasn’t like any conference I’d ever been to and since my dear friend Kelly Olexa invited me to be on her panel, I agreed and made the trip out to Park City, UT for the weekend…I know, life’s rough. The panel was dedicated to “The Future of Location and Mobile technologies and how...
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Where 2.0, 2010 is over, so I figured I’d share a few of few of my thoughts about the show, the people and the industry. Overall, the show was the most highly attended yet growing year over year and topping 1100 registrants. It was an interesting mix of data providers, application developers and novelty acts which I’ll discuss in some detail below… Night of the living base maps – While NAVTEQ has perennially been the data...
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As I’m writing this I’m sitting on a plane from Austin heading to the Microsoft MIX conference in Las Vegas. I have 12 of the 16 new foursquare badges in hand, a brain full of ideas for what’s to come, and a brazen interpretation of the SXSW conference. I figured I’d share a few thoughts. Augmenting Maps with Reality. For those of you who came to my Bing panel, thank you. And, of course, a huge thanks to the panelists...
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