http://saunderslog.com/2006/12/02/beyond-where-kakiloc-at-barcamp-ottawa/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:06:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://saunderslog.com/2006/12/02/beyond-where-kakiloc-at-barcamp-ottawa/#comment-84084 Maple Leaf 2.0 - Where are You? I’m Here, Kakiloc Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:28:51 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/12/02/beyond-where-kakiloc-at-barcamp-ottawa/#comment-84084 [...] Alec Saunders recently attended BarCamp in Ottawa, and came away impressed with a start-up called Kakiloc, which he describes as something that “marries social networks and location based services”. Using Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, the Ottawa-based start-up lets people broadcast their locations (longitude and latitude) to friends and family through a computer or mobile devices. Kakiloc looks to among a growing number of companies trying to capitalize on the growing interest in GPS technology among consumers. The mobile market is particularly fertile as more consumers subscribe to location-based services. Last month, Sprint Nextel rolled out a friend-tracking service call Boost, while Helio launched Buddy Beacon. Kakiloc looks like an interesting “feature” that could prove useful to wireless carriers looking to attract young consumers, and/or a social networking site that wants to build customer loyalty. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner [...] [...] Alec Saunders recently attended BarCamp in Ottawa, and came away impressed with a start-up called Kakiloc, which he describes as something that “marries social networks and location based services”. Using Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, the Ottawa-based start-up lets people broadcast their locations (longitude and latitude) to friends and family through a computer or mobile devices. Kakiloc looks to among a growing number of companies trying to capitalize on the growing interest in GPS technology among consumers. The mobile market is particularly fertile as more consumers subscribe to location-based services. Last month, Sprint Nextel rolled out a friend-tracking service call Boost, while Helio launched Buddy Beacon. Kakiloc looks like an interesting “feature” that could prove useful to wireless carriers looking to attract young consumers, and/or a social networking site that wants to build customer loyalty. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner [...]

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