More Details On SimpleGeo, The AWS For Location
TechCrunch Nov 19 09This morning at Under the Radar, former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan are taking the stage to unveil SimpleGeo, their new infrastructure for location based services. We've been following the company over the last few months and uncovered some basic details earlier, but this marks the first time the founders are talking about the company in public. SimpleGeo is akin to an 'Amazon Web Services' for location: developers looking to integrate location based services (LBS) can plug into some simple APIs and SimpleGeo will do most of the legwork for them. The startup originated as a gaming company, but after spending four months building out their location platform, Stump and Galligan realized they had stumbled across an opportunity: location is soon going to become an expected feature in many applications, and there's no reason developers should have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to include the feature. Full story...
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