GPS - Geospatial Annotation Project

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Geospatial Annotation Project

Tony McLaughlin

2007-06-14, 10:33 pm

This is my first post to this ng, please bare with me if the topic is not
germaine. If this is not the correct group, please let me know of other
groups to post.

I represent a group of investors seeking input, developer participation and
open source collaboration on a geospatial annotation social bookmarking
application. Our project aims to develop a web app that allows users to
bookmark locations with multi-media (text, pictures, sound, clips) for
sharing and community building. Uses include private, community and social
networking, and commercial.

The spec is for an embed J2ME app in users mobile device to identify
location (JSR 179, triangulation, etc.) and a web platform that reads
positioning from the mobile app, or users may enter positions manually and
forego the mobile app (address, lat / long, etc.). Both web based and mobile
web platform.

Think convergence of YouTube with wikipedia (ala "what I know about here is.
.. . "), LBS, Friendster, geoblogging, and del.icio.us. Whatever you like
about a place, bookmark it and add notation. Bookmark yourself as a
travelling spot on the map, and tag yourself up and down. Connect with
people based on tags. Need a date in your area of Sticksville? Drive to a
new city and find the top rated pizza place, who died where, who is single,
what local book club meets where, etc. etc. etc. Walk to your corner and
search for "taxi cab" and have the nearest one pick you up. Form a private
club for your friends ala Dodgeball.com and let everyone know where to meet
you. Talk about that new doggie park with the cute chics and where it's
located. A virtual signpost with annotation for any tag you can imagine, the
community builds and shapes the site.

We are looking for input, collab, open source developers. I am the cash guy
and principal, and willing to give "sweat equity" to hardcore developers
with vision. We have a bootstrap budget, and connects with a biz angel who
knows the product will work, but the devil is in the details. This is a no
brainer, but requires a community effort.

Could use feedback and open source participation, dialogue, a list of folks
to sign up for the prototype release (6 months) and testing, UI experts, GPS
/ GIS experts, telecom engineers, mappers, Flash artists, LAMP jockeys, Java
jockeys, DotNet jockeys, visionaries at home in your P.J.'s.

You can respond via this post or email my team here:
mark_farkinwar@yahoo
.com

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

--
Tony McLaughlin

stolarskin

2007-06-14, 10:33 pm

We are looking for input, collab, open source developers. I am the cash guy
and principal, and willing to give "sweat equity" to hardcore developers
with vision.

Might try a newsgroup for bored
millionaires, that don't
have bills to pay.
Whenever I see somthing that says sweat equity and no pay, because
of one reason or another, blah, blah, I think about film producer/dreamers,
that are looking for people to work on a project
for little or no money.

"Tony McLaughlin" <tony365@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:j5ici.14$C31.1@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> This is my first post to this ng, please bare with me if the topic is not
> germaine. If this is not the correct group, please let me know of other
> groups to post.
>
> I represent a group of investors seeking input, developer participation
> and
> open source collaboration on a geospatial annotation social bookmarking
> application. Our project aims to develop a web app that allows users to
> bookmark locations with multi-media (text, pictures, sound, clips) for
> sharing and community building. Uses include private, community and social
> networking, and commercial.
>
> The spec is for an embed J2ME app in users mobile device to identify
> location (JSR 179, triangulation, etc.) and a web platform that reads
> positioning from the mobile app, or users may enter positions manually and
> forego the mobile app (address, lat / long, etc.). Both web based and
> mobile
> web platform.
>
> Think convergence of YouTube with wikipedia (ala "what I know about here
> is.
> . . "), LBS, Friendster, geoblogging, and del.icio.us. Whatever you like
> about a place, bookmark it and add notation. Bookmark yourself as a
> travelling spot on the map, and tag yourself up and down. Connect with
> people based on tags. Need a date in your area of Sticksville? Drive to a
> new city and find the top rated pizza place, who died where, who is
> single,
> what local book club meets where, etc. etc. etc. Walk to your corner and
> search for "taxi cab" and have the nearest one pick you up. Form a private
> club for your friends ala Dodgeball.com and let everyone know where to
> meet
> you. Talk about that new doggie park with the cute chics and where it's
> located. A virtual signpost with annotation for any tag you can imagine,
> the
> community builds and shapes the site.
>
> We are looking for input, collab, open source developers. I am the cash
> guy
> and principal, and willing to give "sweat equity" to hardcore developers
> with vision. We have a bootstrap budget, and connects with a biz angel who
> knows the product will work, but the devil is in the details. This is a no
> brainer, but requires a community effort.
>
> Could use feedback and open source participation, dialogue, a list of
> folks
> to sign up for the prototype release (6 months) and testing, UI experts,
> GPS
> / GIS experts, telecom engineers, mappers, Flash artists, LAMP jockeys,
> Java
> jockeys, DotNet jockeys, visionaries at home in your P.J.'s.
>
> You can respond via this post or email my team here:
> mark_farkinwar@yahoo
.com
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Tony McLaughlin
>

Tony McLaughlin

2007-06-14, 10:33 pm

"stolarskin" < stolarskin@bellsouth
.net> wrote in message
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> Might try a newsgroup for bored
> millionaires, that don't
> have bills to pay.
> Whenever I see somthing that says sweat equity and no pay, because
> of one reason or another, blah, blah, I think about film
> producer/dreamers,
> that are looking for people to work on a project
> for little or no money.

We are looking for visonaries, developers, EE / CS dreamers and producers,
people with ideas, leaders. Sweat equity in this case means "shares of
ownership", which is common compensation in start-ups. People who lack
vision or who have yet to understand how technologies develop need not
apply.

--
Regards,

Tony McLaughlin

>
>
>
>
> "Tony McLaughlin" <tony365@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:j5ici.14$C31.1@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
>
>

Andrew

2007-06-15, 4:33 am

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:16:29 -0400, "Tony McLaughlin"
<tony365@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>We are looking for visonaries, developers, EE / CS dreamers and producers,
>people with ideas, leaders. Sweat equity in this case means "shares of
>ownership", which is common compensation in start-ups. People who lack
>vision or who have yet to understand how technologies develop need not
>apply.

Money grabbers who don't understand what Open Source entails should
also not apply.
--
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Tony McLaughlin

2007-06-15, 7:33 am

GIS / LBS will be a cornerstone of the next evolution of social networking
applications. We are looking for project developers and visionaries with
ideas, and ample compensation is being offered. We are neither socialist
open source pioneers, nor are we capitalist money ogres, nor are we idea
pirates. Our aim is to develop something of value and utility. That's all
folks.

--
Regards,

Tony McLaughlin

"Andrew" <spamtrap@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:16:29 -0400, "Tony McLaughlin"
> <tony365@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
> Money grabbers who don't understand what Open Source entails should
> also not apply.
> --
> Andrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com
> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
> please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
> Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question.

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