Archive for 8Motions
Experimental feature: Twitter update and Flickr posting
Two new interesting features:
First one, twitter update: if you take a picture from your mobile using 8Motions, this could generate a “twit” with the link to the photo and place that has been uploaded,like this:
http://www.8motions.com/p/11463
To enable this, go to your 8Motions account (my account on the top left of the page) and put your twitter [...]
Using LWUIT with J2memap
One of J2memap user wanted to use the application with the LWUIT framework from Sun. So, after some research, it appears that only one modification was needed: a callback to notify the host that the screen needed to be repainted.
This has been done by adding a new callback in the mapDisplayListener:
asBeenRepaint();
So here is the code [...]
Two new functions added in OpenCellID API
Just added two new useful functions in the OpenCellIDAPI:
measure/list to list your measures
and
measure/delete to delete on measure
This is usefull if you made some errors…
Also note that entry with either lat or lon equals to 0 will not be accepted, as this is a frequent error…
8Motions: another wins!
8Motions was a winner of the latest french contest for innovative companies! Once again, this is a proof of the interest of 8Motions project, both on technology part but also on business part! So thanks to the jury for selecting us…..
Interview for Telematicsupdate about OpenCellID
Following conference Telematicsupdate conference about LBS, I’ve been interviewed by Thomas about OpenCellid and impact on the industry. Result is here: Towards free location on all devices.
Lonely Planet API
Big news in my view in the tourist area: Lonely Planet, one of the biggest brand in traditionnal tourist guide, just launched an API to access to his content.
The API is REST/XML based, quite easy to understand. So congrat to Chris (yes, one of the numerous former ex-In-Fusio guys in this area!)
A nice mobile web [...]
8Motions in the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference
We will take part of the panel “How to build a community and monetize your local social network” next week in the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference, in Amsterdam. Seems to be a lot of ince speakers, for various companies. If you are here, and want to chat, just send me an email.
New cells contributions
Good news, OpenCellID is taking off in a great way. Nick Gering from Device54 contributed by providing some informations about some cells located in London and Barcelona! So thanks Nick for the contribution
New version of the J2memap SDK available
Hello dear J2memap developer,
We’ve just put on line a new version of the SDK.
Beyon some small improvment, there is a major (but easy to handle) change:
Tha package name has changed, to follow our company organisation. It moved from net.landspurg to com.eightmotions. So just replace it in your source code
There was also some cleanup on what [...]
Navx launch his own platform
Navx, a french company selling customized voices and POI for GPS, seems to go also in the UGC content. They just announced yesterday the opening in public beta of their platform.This seems very similar to what 8Motions is doing, except that they are focused on the GPS market. While GPS is a big market, I [...]