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In this episode, Forum Nokia’s Bill Volpe speaks with Marc Kleinmaier, Business Development Manager for Location Based Services, Lifestyles, and Gadgets. In this discussion, Marc discusses his role in Business Development in these three areas. In addition Marc also mentions some key developer companies that he has been working with on the business side.
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The ZOS team just arrived back from CES 2010 and I have to say it was a a great event!
Nokia had invited us to join their booth and present zhiing on the new S60 Nokia devices (N97, E71, E72, etc). As a growing company, this was a tremendous opportunity and we can’t thank Nokia enough. Some how, we were given a spot in one of the best booths on the floor, in an amazing location. We were situated right on one of the main walking corridors. Good thing we had a team of six there, because we met, literally, with thousands of people. We had a chance to meet and interact with many of the passionate staff of Nokia and were blown away by their dedication to innovation, their products and the company. We were really lucky to be there.
A very happy ZOS Chris Russell with Nokia team member.
I had a chance to take a look around the convention for a while. It looks like the explosion of 3D televisions are now here, with Panasonic and Samsung leading the charge. My favorite booth and coolest technology I saw was at Intel. They had a giant multi-sided touch screen setup (6 feet tall). Internet feeds were being displayed as rotating three-dimensional cubes all in an planet like formation. On the cubes was live content. You could touch the screen and the content would open up. It was the first User Interface I had ever scene that could make you see how content, communications, services, education, could all fit together in a user experience. This was all run off a single laptop. Really cool.
Cool User Interface
Watch for the latest updates of zhiing going into 2010!
I know the picture links are broken. I am working on it.
Jon at zhiing.
June’s been a great month for zhiing and for the ZOS team. We have had a great release of zhiing on all the smartphones and are learning about what the users want everyday. We even released the ability to zhiing into twitter on the Android phones (the rest will be coming soon). I am actually zhiinging to twitter (twiinging) a little too much. What will be interesting to see, is, how the world will change, as location becomes more a part of the living twitter stream. Just look what’s happening when someone tweets “help.” Now add a location to that.
We are getting more and more traction from companies looking to use our platform. Companies wanting to build social networks, garner locations for applications, create geo-databases, advertising, emergency routing and notifications, parenting, the works. It’s given zhiing and ZOS a lot of opportunity. Now is the time for us to prioritize as we move forward. Never hesitate to call if you want to build that killer location based application.
Today with the upgrade of Firefox 3.5, we have upgraded the browser plug-in dialogue box. You may need to get it off the zhiing.com website. Coming soon is our new dialogue box and two-way chat from browser to mobile. Here’s your free family friend finder! Many developers have requested the code to put the dialogue box onto addresses within their own sites. If you would like this code, it is available at ww.zoscomm.com at the industry solutions, web developer’s page.
That’s it for now. I am off to run the Santa Barbara Reef and Run with the ZOS Team.
zhiing me!
Jon at zhiing
Today we launch zhiing on iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian (Nokia) and Windows Mobile. We have achieved our initial goal of creating our LBS platform and truly offering a cross platform experience. The team is exactly on schedule and I am looking forward to the feedback we will receive. I am very proud of the development team. They have worked tirelessly for more than a year putting all the pieces together. Trying to get accurate and consistent GPS calls across all the major operating systems is not an easy task. We have had some great support from our partners at RIM and Skyhook Wireless.
Please enjoy zhiing and we look forward to user feedback as we push forward into 2.0 and the incorporating dynamic points of interest into the next builds. We also look forward to many of our new partners and interested parties utilizing the zhiing platform. This is why we built it.
“zhiing me!”
Jon at zhiing
Long drive back from San Francisco Friday night. I went up there from here (Santa Barbara) for several meetings and an entrepreneurial gathering. There is no place like Silicon Valley for entrepreneurs. It’s an amazing community of people with extreme passion and vision. Dave McClure put together a startup2startup event in Palo Alto. This was my first time at this kind of event. I am from outside the area and didn’t really know anyone, except for some bloggers that I read, but only know their writing. Dave organized Steve Blank and Eric Ries to talk about some of the important lessons they have learned throughout their professional lives. Steve, author of “The Four Steps to the Epiphany,” discussed his life experiences and the fundamentals of starting up a company with customer driven product development. What’s funny, is just about every entrepreneur in the room starts their company on a vision and lots of passion. Continue reading ‘Jon’s Report - Fundamentals’
Sorry for such a delay in my reports. We have spent January and February working on building our ZOS Communications website. www.zoscommnications.com. ZOS is the parent company of zhiing and is where we leverage the technology we built for it into the enterprise space.
This focus is allowing us to incorporate the zhiing technology into corporate environments. Many of these customers have smartphones already in use, and with zhiing and some increased functionality, we are able to drop right into the current CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Systems. Without really any hardware or process changes, we can now provide a location communications process to any in-place system. Like we have always believed, we can enable LBS for any person or service and it is proving to be true. The problem really is that spans so many markets and can power so many different systems, that focusing on the first few has been a challenge in itself.
On the zhiing side, we are going to begin the next level of beta programs for Android and Symbian phones over the next few weeks and Windows Moible to follow very soon. The people from Crackberry have been extraordinary in helping with the new Blackberry Storm Beta. I am now a very big believer in power of that group and the level of enthusiam from that forum. Crackberry users have provided amazing feedback and saved us thousands of dollars and more importantly time on a fantastic beta program. We had more than 60 qualified testers in about an hour of posting. Now Storm and Bold are publically realeased (but still in Beta) and are growing nicely.
That’s it for now. I will leave you with a picture of our Sales and Business development team. When I mean team, these guys are unbelievable. They are pretty much attached at the hip with growing our customer base. Note the dress code. They were also born on the same date. Weird.
Dress Code
We are so proud to have the opportunity to support positive change in America. Right now our very own zhiing girl, Connie, is traveling around the country in a RV filming a documentary on the new generation of motivated, change oriented youth. She has taken five Santa Barbara City College students on a life-changing journey to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama. As they travel across the country they are meeting with other young leaders involved in social change.
Please continue to check the website www.thebaracknation.com to follow them on their journey as they blog and v-log across the country.
