By Andres | In Startups
Got an email last week from Justin Cutillo, CEO of the small startup Seero.com, alerting me to some new features available on the site. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to write about the site and new features until now.
For those of you that are not familiar with Seero.com, it is a geo-broadcasting platform for users to broadcast and experience destinations around the world. From the web site:
“Seero fuses live and on-demand video with GPS mapping to create a rich and unique user experience. Our goal is to shake the foundations of how you see video with a platform that promotes exploration and geographical awareness.”
You can check out all of Seero.com’s features here. Justin wrote to tell me about a new feature that sounds pretty cool. Now Seero.com allows users to share their geo-broadcasting data as a KML network link, allowing the information to be viewed directly in Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, or any other client/app that can display KML.
You can check out an example of the KML feed being used in a user’s blog here:
Check out Seero.com’s mapping help page for more information about their KML feeds.
Nifty!
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By Andres | In Startups
Just finished reading a short and sweet post by Scott Shane on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. What I think is great about this post is that it is a gut check for entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs (I am a little of both, I guess). I am curious to read your input on whether you think these myths apply less (or more) to the geospatial industry/sector.
Here is the teaser–read the post for the full details.
- It takes a lot of money to finance a new business.
- Venture capitalists are a good place to go for start-up money.
- Most business angels are rich.
- Start-ups can’t be financed with debt.
- Banks don’t lend money to start-ups.
- Most entrepreneurs start businesses in attractive industries.
- The growth of a start-up depends more on an entrepreneur’s talent than on the business he chooses.
- Most entrepreneurs are successful financially.
- Many start-ups achieve the sales growth projections that equity investors are looking for.
- Starting a business is easy.
Would love to see a top ten myths of GIS…
What aspiring entrepreneurs often find themselves saying:
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Amazon’s S3 and EC2 web services are starting to garner more attention as a viable means for companies/organizations to leverage Amazon’s robust infrastructure to store and deliver content via the web. I first came across WeoGeo via this post on BlinkGeo Stories. WeoGeo is a Florida-based startup that has tapped into these two web services to host/deliver various types of geospatial content in a promising new way. Many thanks to WeoGeo’s two founders, Dr. W. Paul Bissett and Dr. David D.R. Kohler, who were kind of enough to provide the following information about their new venture.
Give us the equivalent of your 30-second elevator pitch for WeoGeo?
WeoGeo is a platform for the hosting, discovery, and marketing of geospatial content. At its heart is technology that matches people with geocontent in a way that eases the process of customizing and delivery high bandwidth digital products.
The technology is used in two distinct, yet linked, ways. WeoGeo Market (http://www.WeoGeo.com) provides an exchange based approach to matching the suppliers of digital geocontent (our Providers) with the consumers of those products (our Users). This mapping marketplace allows Providers to set their price for their work, and allows users to customize products to optimize the price they pay. WeoGeo handles the listing, hosting, and processing of the geocontent as well as the financial transactions. The Market is built on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3), so it is completely scalable to the needs of the marketplace. [Read more…]
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I recently had the opportunity to grab an interview with Danny Moon (CEO) and the rest of the UpNext team to discuss their technology. UpNext is an up-and-coming geospatial startup that provides a fully-interactive 3D immersion experience for major metropolitan cities in the U.S.
Give us the equivalent of your 30-second elevator pitch.
UpNext is a 3D cityscape for local exploration and discovery. We create dynamic, interactive 3D maps to show you what’s UpNext in your city. Your city is alive, our maps are alive.
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By Andres | In Startups
Geospatial startup UpNext, which allows users to explore cities interactively through an immersive 3D interface, announced that it has added a cool new feature called Hotspots.
From the UpNext Blog: “HotSpots are glowing lights that indicate what’s UpNext in the city. These lights show events, new openings, festivals, and much more. Now you can visually see what’s happening in the city.”
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