The Web Life

Mashup and mold your meal into the shape of the state you live in, and snap a picture. This is one of the challenges you can participate in with SCVNGR.

May 18, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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Warning: This post is in the style of a live blog. Think volcanos.

May 14, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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For the next few days, I will be stationed in the midwest covering the 2nd annual Big Omaha.I had a chance to chat with Big Omaha founder Jeff Slobotski last month to learn what this conference is all about and what his organization is doing.

May 13, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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Transit by definition is "location". Bay Area Rapid Transit setup a partnership with Foursquare last year, creating a badge for user when they checkin to multiple BART stations.

May 5, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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San Francisco is being infiltrated this week with marketing gurus, web developers, and social media manufacturers at Web 2.0 Expo.

May 3, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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It's a bold move to build a social location app today, but Kevin Systorm doesn't care about that.I was introduced to Burbn by a friend who claimed, "it's like a Foursquare game".

April 29, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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Next month, I'll be heading to Omaha, Nebraska for a tech conference. Yep, you heard correctly; they are having an interactive web conference in the heartland and I'll be covering it right here.

April 19, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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Ted Morgan, CEO of Skyhook Wireless on the growth of locationSkyhook has spent seven years to make location work. Over 200 million wi-fi access points, 1.

April 1, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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Kati London from Area/Code spoke at Where 2.0 today in San Jose.

April 1, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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At Where 2.0, a company called Parrot (who usually dabbles in bluetooth headsets), demoed a flying augmented reality drone for the crowd.

March 31, 2010 by Andrew Mager

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