Earlier this month we were deeply chuffed to announce that Yahoo! Geo Technologies would be hosting the first #geomob meetup in London of 2009 at Wallacespace in Covent Garden. After much hard work on the part of Chris Osborne, the organiser and founder of #geomob, the final speaker line up can be announced.
The meme for this meetup continues to be exploring the connection between context, location and device and there will now be four exciting and visionary speakers:
- Russell Middleton from the Google Geo team; at the last meetup Yahoo! Geo Technologies spoke at a Google supported event and it seems only fitting that we will now have Google speaking at a Yahoo! supported event. Russell will be talking about some of the lesser known features of Google Maps together with a review of their newly launched features.
- Andrew Scott, founder of rummble.com, the location based social search and discovery tool.
- Alfie Dennen, the man behind Moblog, Britglyph, StoppedClocks and What Is The Question? will be talking on ‘The Internet of Places, or, How to Get a Man to Stand in a Field in Glasgow. At Midnight’. Alfie will be revealing more as he talks about fusing mapping, GPS, ARG/Gaming elements and art
- Terry Jones, the inventor of FluidDB and founder of fluidinfo.com. Terry will be talking about FluidDB, the database with the heart of a wiki. With commendations from tech evangelists such as Robert Scoble and Tim O’Reilly, this will provide a fascinating end to a packed and varied set of speakers.
Unfortunately the guest list for this event is currently closed and at capacity but head over the the official #geomob site and sign up for news and announcements on this and future meetups.
Gary Gale, Head of UK Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies
