December 2008
Greetings! We wrap up 2008 with a great deal of excitement about what lies ahead for location-based social networking on the web. We have seen our users start to employ location data in their geodiaries for fitness, adventure travel, biking and other outdoor activities such as hiking & off-road driving. We are thrilled to see some of you use your geodiaries to map the world around you with photos, video and audio clips from your daily lives AND then share your journals with your friends and family. On the technology front, the web continues to innovate despite the current slowdown and we plan to be right there with you, providing the very best capabilities to location-enable your activities online. We are working on providing our geodiary service as the underlying application for some exciting new websites in the coming new year. We are also working to regularly integrate cool new web applications to the geodiary service especially around user-generated content such as Photography, Blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter and Lifestreaming.
Website Update
* Our consumer service, MyGeoDiary which used to be at www.abaq.us has moved to www.mygeodiary.com. Many of your bookmarks will probably still work, but if they don't we are sorry for this temporary inconvenience.
* The www.abaq.us is still there and it now serves as our company website.
* We have a new MyGeoDiary home page! You can see a display of cool new public tracks contributed by our users.
* We have updated our phone applications on blackberry and Windows mobile. On the blackberry, you can now upload large tracks and picture sets directly over the mobile network.
* An increasing number of bike tracks, adventure travel recordings and vacation journals are being posted to the site. In the coming months, we will provide you statistics behind our user generated content
* We have added a 'HELP' presentations to demonstrate how to use various features in the service.
Platform
Update We have recently opened up access to our MyGeoDiary platform for partners and customers to build their own cool LBS applications OR embed location-attributes to their existing online services. We host the web services platform to record-organize-publish geotracks using a wide variety of devices; provide a suite of APIs; and a basic administration service to make this process very simple.
* We have extended our tagging system to give our users additional controls over their geo-content organization, content publishing and community interaction. e.g.
* If you want to publish all tracks under a tag to a geoRSS feed, simply create a feed with the identical name as the tag.
* If you want to publish certain tracks to your blogger account, organize those tracks under a 'blogger' tag
* We have also built a powerful messaging system which allows you to initiate notifications to your social network when certain updates are made to your geodiary e.g. this can be used to build your personal 'beacon' service for your friends & family across multiple social networks.
Please contact us at support@abaq.us if you are interested in using our APIs.
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