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Thereâs a message from your future and itâs telling you to remember to pick up milk.
Amber Case and her partner Aaron Parecki are the founders of GeoLoqi. GeoLoqi is a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends. Geoloqi has been covered in the Willamette Week and Oregon Business. It has been presented at eComm, Open Source Bridge, Show and Tell PDX and Research Club under the alias Non-Visual Augmented Reality with SMS and GPS. Read CNN's article on GeoLogi, "What's Next for 'Check-in' Apps".
What will you learn:
1. Why developers of apps should look at what users want to do now, as well as what users want to do in their future.
2. Why social apps should try to mirror realâworld relationships
3. Why sharing should be about who you share with as well as how long you want the information to be available.
4. Why developers should think about making apps "ambientâ and require less user interaction.
Meet the Geeks
Aaron Parecki is a Portland-based PHP developer and GPS fanatic. His fascination with GPS began at the age of 6, when he began tracing the routes of family road trips on a map with a highlighter. This interest has grown into groundbreaking new methods of location sharing and data collection. Recently he co-founded a company, Quicksilver Real Estate Solutions, developing software for the real estate industry. You can learn more about Aaron at aaronparecki.com, and you can follow him on twitter at @aaronpk
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and corporate consultant currently living in Portland, Oregon. She founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MITâs Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. Sheâs also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She was previously a blogger for Discovery Channel and worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MITâs Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. Sheâs also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portlandâs Webvisions 2009. She previously wrote for Discovery Channelâs Nerdabout.com and worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon.
Amber Case is known for her skills in online productivity, business strategy, and new communication methods. She is currently writing a book on applying anthropological techniques to better understand industry ecosystems. Amber was recently featured in Fast Company as one of their Most Influential Women in Technology. She is on twitter as @caseorganic.
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Amber Case and her partner Aaron Parecki are the founders of Geoloqi. Geoloqi is a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends. Geoloqi has been covered in the Willamette Week and Oregon Business. It has been presented at eComm, Open Source Bridge, Show and Tell PDX and Research Club under the alias Non-Visual Augmented Reality with SMS and GPS.
What will you learn:
*Why developers of apps should look at what users want to do now, as well as what users want to do in their future.
*Why social apps should try to mirror real–world relationships
*Why sharing should be about who you share with as well as how long you want the information to be available.
*Why developers should think about making apps "ambient” and require less user interaction. |