Mobile application service provider Lightpole has introduced a beta version of software that expands on its application’s geolocation capabilities using Yahoo’s Fire Eagle.
Lightpole provides businesses with a way to distribute content to mobile phone users, mostly regarding information related to points of interest (POIs). Fire Eagle, which launched last month, is Yahoo’s geo-information platform, which allows users to update their current location from other applications through an API. Locations can be set by a number of devices, including computers and cell phones (through GPS and services like SkyHook). Lightpole, one of the first developers to integrate Fire Eagle, uses this location information to find a list of POIs in the proximity. These POIs are then downloaded to the Lightpole application, where users can browse for information including business hours and phone numbers.
Lightpole’s white label application can also be used by external sites to facilitate mobile access to their databases. For example, the bar locator MappyHour has partnered with Lightpole to provide automatic lookup of local watering holes based on a user’s location. Other features in the release include support for geo-tagged RSS feeds and the ability for users to add and modify POI information in the company’s database from their phones.
Lightpole was founded in January 2007. The company received $2 Million in Series A funding from Alloy Ventures and Stanford University in Febuary 2008. Competitors in this space include Google Local and uLocate.
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I managed to signup but it doesn’t appear to work for iPhone.
How can you leave the iPhone out of this service and expect any success?
Yep, another mashup. Lets see the results when they come out of Beta.
No disclosure on seesmic added to techcrunch’s commenting system ….. What the heck?
@Lightpole, if you are reading this, you’re main page breaks with FF2.0.0.13
http://www.simplebucket.com/p/mde4nzq
We will see what happen to them when they finish
LightPole already supports hundreds of models of mobile phones, including Blackberry, Motorola, Nokia, and most phones from leading carries such as AT&T, Sprint/Nextel and T-Mobile as well as the Blackberry on Verizon. LightPole continues to add support for new phones all the time, including plans to release a version for the Apple iPhone later this year.
Of course we’re reading. We love this site, and the feedback, and hope that you will indeed continue to follow our progress. We’ll get better over time, and we ask that you please help us. We tremendously appreciate feedback, and if you have a suggestion for how we can be better, we want to hear it!
Thanks!
Khang, thanks for the FF find. It should be fixed now if you want to retry.