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RWW Most Promising Company of 2011: Simplegeo
- atldev 16y agoThey chose Tumblr as the "Best Little Company" for 2010, and their track record for this award is pretty good: 2009: Aardvark 2008: Zoho 2007: Twitter 2006: YouTube 2005: 37signals 2004: Flickr(Ludicorp) Look at these "little companies" from just a few years ago. I love the new speed of business.
- ecoffey 16y agoI know some of the SimpleGeo folk, and they are highly intelligent, awesome people.
- joshu 16y agow00t. (i'm an investor)
- indiekid 16y agoAnd we love that about you :)
- felipe 16y ago> The original plan of CrashCorp was to create mobile games using augmented reality, but the young company soon learned that the hardest part was developing the back-end geolocation infrastructure that would support their applications. Geolocation technology is around for decades, with widely supported standards and a number of open-source servers available. Augmented Reality in the other hand sounds very challenging, due to image manipulation and dealing with an environment with limited resources (mobiles). Am I missing something?
- indiekid 16y agoIt's not you missing something, it's RWW. We were actually trying to build "Alternate Reality" games, not "Augmented Reality". The clear distinction is that our plan was to build "game worlds on top of the real world" but didn't worry about our implementation. It could have been some list-based game, and it still would have been Alternate Reality. However, we were looking into using Augmented Reality as the delivery mechanism for these games. Then we open sourced the AR stuff that we had built to that date: https://github.com/simplegeo/SGAREnvironment https://github.com/simplegeo/SGAREnvironment