Mike Blumenthal

Location-based services now hotter than hot? – Martijn Beijk,  martijnbeijk.com Location-based services are hot. Now hotter than before. Because Google just launched their Geolocation API. What does this mean in general for software or services we are going to see? Well imagine opening up your browser or software application on your mobile phone or laptop and do a search …

Urbanspoon’s iPhone application is a fun, engaging app that uses the features of the iPhone and location awareness to create a unique local discovery experience. They are now showing a heatmap (thanks to High Earth Orbit) showing where the shakes have been taking place for the last 24 hours: According to Urbanspoon: 6,000,000 shakes 300,000 …

This guest article is written by Erek Dyskant, a database analyst, who has written a number of apps that interface with Google Maps and Yahoo Local. It provides an interesting look at the inner workings of the Google Maps database. As I’ve been reading about some of the discrepancies between the Google Maps business directory …