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Locle for Nokia – Top 10 Best Selling Social Network Apps
We didn’t even realise it ourselves until Nokia contacted us this week, but Locle for Nokia has been a top ten Best Selling app in the Ovi Store.
If the sales figures are good, we’ll do an update for the upcoming S40 phone.
Locle selected to present at ITLG 2009
Locle will be presenting at the Irish Technology Leadership Group’s “Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland” conference in Belfast on October 21, 2009.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/1016/1224256785951.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_13420463?nclick_check=1
Established in October 2007, the ITLG is an independent organization comprised of a number of high-level technology leaders in Silicon Valley who are Irish or Irish-American. The Group includes senior executives from some of the Valley’s leading corporations, each of whom are committed to helping Ireland address the challenges of embracing new technology opportunities.
“Silicon Valley” attendees can familiarise themselves in advance of the conference. The Locle-branded implementation of the Locle Platform can be viewed at www.locle.com (desktop), m.locle.com (mobile web) and get.locle.com (mobile app download).
Developers intersted in creating their own location-based mobile social applications are invited to register their interest in the Locle Platform at developers.locle.com.
Locle Mini for Android released on Android Market
Locle Mini for Android “Google” phones, such as the HTC T-Mobile G1, is now available from the Android Market.
Locle Mini for Android is free to download and free to pass on to friends.
The mobile app is also available from Locle’s mobile download page at http://get.locle.com.
Locle Mini is now available on 10 mobile platforms: iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia S60, Nokia S80, UIQ, Palm OS, Palm Pre, Java Mobile (J2me) SonyEricsson, Windows Mobile; and also as a WAP 2.0 mobile website at http://m.locle.com and http://locle.mobi.
Locle reveals API for 3rd party developers
http://irishdev.com/Home/News/620-Locle-ReEngineer-Location-Platform.html
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/08/03/locle-launches-location-api-for-other-apps/
Locle yesterday launched an upgrade to its location platform, presenting an API for web services which makes the entire web application available to 3rd parties through a set of standardised web interfaces.
Application developers that are planning to introduce location features to their own applications can now leverage the Locle system for their own benefit. It lets developers code their own front-end (be they desktop clients, web applications, mobile apps, gadgets/widgets, SMS or voice response services) to interact directly with the API.
As Sting sang: “If you love someone, set them free”. And so it is with Locle’s location-based mobile social application platform.
This is very similar to how the Twitter platform is revealed through the Twitter API, except Locle has a revenue system built into the API, with location-based advertising, promotions and coupons, in-app micropayments and wallet.
The Locle API comes with full Twitter, Facebook and OpenSocial integration; canvas app and gadget libraries in PHP; and, soon, native mobile app libraries for Java Mobile (J2ME), Blackberry, Symbian S60 and S80 editions 1, 2, 3 and 5, Windows Mobile 5 and 6, Palm OS, Palm Pre, Android, iPhone/iPod Touch.
The upgrade included a reworking of the Locle mobile website at http://m.locle.com.
Irish Times April Fool Believable
The Irish Times ran an April Fool’s story that was amazingly similar to Locle’s own foolery. It highlights that the zeitgeist is location, but sadly also emphasised that government continues to overlook domestic technology providers:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0401/1224243795000.html
And compare our own:
http://www.dublincoastaldevelopment.com/irishtimes.com/breaking/2009/0401/breaking1.htm
