GeoGraffiti Voice Marks on Google Earth

May 20th, 2009

This is the 2nd article of a three part series. This one covers how GeoGraffiti Voice Marks can be seen on Google Earth.  If you haven’t read the previous article, read it here:   GeoGraffiti now has Twitter Integration.  

This Google Earth Integration is mostly for your enjoyment.  Whether you are new to Google Earth or a current user, you will have the pleasure of being able to hear the latest and greatest Voice Marks directly on your Google Earth :).  While not all the functionality of the GeoGraffiti Voice Mark Map is available, you will get the most important function — listening to the audio.  The Voice Marks have permalinks to the Voice Mark on the GeoGraffiti website in case you want to reply, create your own Voice Marks, etc.  

Video Demo

Links

Limitations

  • Most content is in the United States.  Why?  Well… phone calls are horrendously expensive in other countries :)… but we have some alternatives.  We just need to find the time to implement it.
  • Not all functionality of GeoGraffiti is available on Google Earth.  This isn’t that big of a deal.  You can listen to the Voice Marks and if you’re interested in more, there is a link to the GeoGraffiti Voice Mark Map in the balloon.

Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions!  

Cheers,

- Adrian, Chad, and Latte

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GeoGraffiti now has Twitter Integration

May 14th, 2009

We’ve been incredibly busy during the past couple of months with a big GEO SEO project.  We can’t describe everything about it in one post so we decided to talk about a new feature every day for the rest of this week.

Our first feature we’d like to show is our brand new Twitter Integration.  The feature is really simple.  All you do is enable Twitter Integration on your GeoGraffiti account and any Voice Mark you create will result in a Tweet to your Twitter account.  So what appears as your status on Twitter when you create a new Voice Mark?  Here’s a screenshot of my recent Twitter updates.

Status message from GeoGraffiti/Twitter integration

Status message from GeoGraffiti/Twitter integration

Your new Voice Marks will update your Twitter status with a message similar to what you see in the screenshot.  So why not put the text transcribed Voice Mark as your Twitter status message?  Well… it’s just hard :).  We can’t possibly transcribe audio real-time in order to update your Twitter status.  This process still requires some human aspect to it so there’s just no way…right now…but soon!  So, you’ll get your nifty Voice Mark title along with a direct link to the Voice Mark where users can listen to the audio.

So why is this cool?  

There are many reasons, but I’ll list a few below

  • Just because you are away from your computer doesn’t mean you have to stop Tweeting!  With any regular phone, anyone can call the GeoGraffiti TUI (Telephone User Interface) @ 213.221.3802 to leave a Voice Mark.  As long as you’ve created a GeoGraffiti account and enabled Twitter Integration, all your Voice Marks will be posted as Tweets!  You’ll run into situations where Tweeting is actually cumbersome or somewhat limiting (not because Twitter is bad, but because Twitter may not be the right medium).  Imagine you’re out and you find some interesting museum or hole-in-the-wall restaurant that you love.  If you want to talk about the places in detail, writing a review via text on a mobile phone will just take too long and you only have the 140 character limit.  Instead, just use GeoGraffiti and get on with your life :).  It’ll take a about a minute.  Plus, your Voice Mark will be there for the rest of the public to benefit from.
  • It doesn’t matter how you create the Voice Mark… your Twitter status will always be updated.  There is no need for any fancy equipment!  Remember that GeoGraffiti is a platform and all our our end-user interfaces are simply interfaces.  All the magic happens on our servers.  This means that you can use GeoGraffiti on iPhone or TMobile G1 to create a Voice Mark and your Twitter status will be updated.  Your tech-challenged grandparents can use their plain ol’ mobile phone or land-line and their Twitter status will be updated (of course they might need your help setting up a Twitter account for the first time)… they might not even go on Twitter at all…all their tweets can be Voice Marks :).  
  • People are apparently making money from Tweets…???  That’s what I saw on the news a few days ago.  Well… if that’s the case, then they too can keep earning $$ by leaving Voice Marks!  
  • Our not-very-publicized Biz Marks (Business Voice Marks for free advertising) will benefit from this by using Twitter as a medium to spread the message.  Basically anyone interested in using GeoGraffiti for SEO/GeoSEO purposes will definitely want to enable Twitter Integration.  I’ll write about this in more detail in a blog post later this week dealing with SEO/GeoSEO.

So there you have it.  These are just a few ways to use Twitter Integration.  I’m sure you, the user, will come up with more and have better ideas.  Don’t be shy!  Let us know what features you’d like to see and we’ll crank it out :).  

Ok.  Enough out of me… here’s a short video to demonstrate how to enable Twitter Integration.

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GeoGraffiti Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day

March 24th, 2009

Today, we are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day to honor the GeoGraffiti Women in Technology.  What is Ada Lovelace Day?  Taken directly from http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay, “Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.”

Here at GeoGraffiti, we want to thank and honor the 3 women who helped bring the latest GeoGraffiti Voice Map Mashup to life.  Here they are in alphabetical order :) …

Eva Cheung

Eva Cheung

Eva Cheung, my beautiful girlfriend, has helped with GeoGraffiti from the start.  What is her role?  One of the most important roles in any user-facing technology is that of user acceptance testing.  No I don’t mean she develops test plans and test functionality according to some test matrix.  I mean REAL honest no-hold-barred user acceptance.  Basically after I develop some feature, I want honest feedback so she’s happy to offer constructive criticism.  I’m not looking for “This is a good value-added feature…blah blah blah“  I’m looking for what a user thinks and she has said stuff about some of the GeoGraffiti features like, “That’s ugly…“, “Mmmm… yeah no… I can’t use that…“, “It sucks…“, and the ever popular, “It’s just not pretty!“  While this may sound funny, it’s feedback that we take very very seriously!  After all, GeoGraffiti is for the the community so to have someone give you this sort of feedback is priceless.  This is the stuff you want and basically the root of what caused us to completely redesign the GeoGraffiti Voice Map Mashup from scratch.  I’m not the only person who thinks this way.  In fact, Guy Kawasaki, mentions a woman’s common sense as a valuable tool in producing a technology, business plan, etc.  In one of his books he mentions that if you have an idea, run it by 3 women and if they tell you “It sucks”, “It doesn’t make sense”, “I wouldn’t use it”, etc. then you’d better get back to the drawing board.  We take this to heart and really value this sort of opinion and feedback.  For your feedback and contributions, Eva, GeoGraffiti thanks you and honors you on this Ada Lovelace Day!

Gisselli Rodriguez

Gisselli Rodriguez

Gisselli Rodriguez, my youngest sister, has helped with GeoGraffiti since this past August when she moved to LA to attend Cal State Northridge.  What is her role?  Gisselli oversees all the GeoGraffiti Voice Marks and makes sure that all the data is accurate, corrects and updates our geographic data in order for GeoGraffiti to provide you, our users, the most accurate data possible, and removes any Voice Marks that aren’t exactly legal or violate any terms of service (there aren’t that many of those, but you’d be surprised with the kind of stuff we get sometimes).  Aside from her main role, she also requests feedback from her friends and ocassionally leaves a Voice Mark.  While this is just personal, I would like to thank her for taking some work off my hands when I was busy developing the Voice Map some months ago… no joke… I had a SERIOUS case of identity theft and she was able to take care of it for me within a month!  This is huge!  I had been battling this for over a year and within a month she had my record cleaned.  For your feedback and contributions, Gisselli, GeoGraffiti thanks you and honors you on this Ada Lovelace Day!

Yannell Rodriguez

Yannell Rodriguez

Yannell Rodriguez, my other sister, has helped with GeoGraffiti since Eva told me “It’s ugly…“  What is her role?  My creativity only goes so far when it comes to graphic design so I decided I should consult someone who has a passion for this kind of stuff.  Who better than your own sister?!  It’s been a long and grueling process to get the GeoGraffiti Voice Map Mashup to the state it’s in today (yes yes I know there are still bugs… don’t worry we’re working on them :) ).  Her talent is amazing.  I’ve sat down with her countless hours just spitting out thoughts in my head about what I want and what I want to experiment with and she’s able to take this and turn it into art.  She’s also been instrumental in keeping us from making graphic design mistakes.  Much like Eva, she too will gladly tell me, “You know… this stuff just looks like @!#$” or “What are you thinking?!  That’s not the way you should do that!“  Wow… I guess after picking on her as a kid, it’s her chance to get back at me!  Ok ok… just kidding.  Again, this feedback is priceless.  We love when people are candid and don’t try to rephrase their sentences into something more acceptable.  It just makes everyone’s life easier and gets right to the point.  It’s exactly what you need when you’re working at a startup company pace!  She’s currently helping design the next version of the iPhone and G1 apps so watch out for those in the next few months!  For your feedback and contributions, Yannell, GeoGraffiti thanks you and honors you on this Ada Lovelace Day!

Don’t forget to forward this around to make sure our GeoGraffiti women are recognized today!

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New GeoGraffiti 2.0 Voice Map Available

March 12th, 2009

It’s done…well it is for now. GeoGraffiti’s new Voice Marking map mashup UI. I guess you could say it was a team effort, but really there was only one “man” behind the man who did all the heavy lifting. He was born to code, likes working the vampire schedule, but can occasionally ignore public guidance.

The Man behind the Man

No seriously check out the new UI and features at www.geograffiti.com/map

Some of the most notable new features are:

  • Search – We have enabled our Voice Map @ www.geograffiti.com/map with content search.  When a new Voice Mark is published, its title, tags, address information, and category will become searchable within within a few hours.  What does this mean for you?  It’s now easier than ever to find Voice Marks.  You can type in what you are looking for in the WHAT box and, optionally, constrain the search to a specific location by typing the location into the WHERE box.  The better part of this search comes into play within a few days (it could be as short as one day or as long as three).  That is, we index your Voice Mark audio content and it becomes searchable so you are able to search for Voice Marks where a person mentions, for example, “parking” in “Los Angeles,CA” and all Voice Marks related to parking will show up.  It’s not perfect, but it is WAY better than what we had before (nothing) :). 
  • Social features – You now have the ability to view who your fans are, who you are a fan of, and view user profiles.  This can be done by clicking on the “My Account” tab on our Voice Map.  To view user profiles, you can click on a Voice Mark’s creator link or search for users by clicking on the “Search Users” link on the top right-hand side of the Voice Map page.  You can also upload a profile picture to associate with your profile by clicking on My Account.  We have also enabled a rough version of groups support.  We are still actively working on this feature so any input on what you want “groups” to do will be greatly appreciated.
  • Notifications – This feature will allow you to keep up-to-date with the latest buzz.  You can now enable notifications for “users responding to your Voice Marks” and “users becoming your fan”.  To do this, you simply click on the My Account tab and then proceed to the Notifications section.  You can enable two types of notifications:  Email and SMS Text Message.  In order to have a text message sent out to you, make sure you select your Carrier in the My Phones section.  You will now be notified when someone responds to your Voice Mark (good for Voice Marks about help, advice, dating) and when someone becomes your fan.  Some of our users will be happy about the response notifications because they want to use GeoGraffiti Voice Marks to “hook up”.  Hook up?  It seems like plenty of users want to post a Voice Mark that functions like a personal ad (…looking for woman in …. that likes dogs…).  If someone is interested, they can reply and the user will be notified and the two users can take it from there.  Pretty cool, eh?
  • A “prettier” look – You may have noticed that our Voice Map and home page have been redesigned.  We wanted to provide you with a better user experience so we redesigned everything… our company logo, the voice map page, color scheme… One of the best parts of the new Voice Map is the resizable map.  That has been a complaint from users from day one.  People with huge monitors or high resolutions were not able to see a bigger map.  This is all taken care of now.  The Voice Map will now stretch to accommodate your entire screen.  If you have any comments or suggestions about the redesigned look, email us using the Contact Page.
  • Social Sharing – Every Voice Mark now includes a [better] Sharing feature.  You can retrieve the direct link (just like before), send to a friend’s phone, or share via Email,AIM,etc (provided by AddThis).  Our Send2Phone feature allows you to send a Voice Mark to your friends via telephone.  You type in their number and click Send.  Your friend will get a phone call (your number as the caller ID) and GeoGraffiti will say “GeoGraffiti will now play that Voice Mark that was sent to your by your friend” and then play the Voice Mark on their phone.  There is one catch though… YOU MUST be signed in and have a verified phone number.  This is to comply with the law and to prevent anyone from sending out Voice Marks as spam to annoy other users (remember YOUR phone number will appear as the caller ID on the other person’s phone).  The other sharing feature is provided by AddThis.  This will allow you to share a Voice Mark via Email, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and a whole lot of other services you currently use.  To try this out, just click on the “Share via Email” link on any Voice Mark on our Voice Map.
  • Better URLs – Aside from this being a no-brainer must-have feature, this was inspired by a friend of mine that left a Voice Mark from his iPhone for a waitress at a restaurant.  But how would that waitress listen to the Voice Mark?  Prior to this release, you’d have to link to a Voice Mark like this http://www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=1. YUK!  That won’t help my friend at all because the link doesn’t even fit on a napkin!  Instead, you can now link to our Voice Marks like this:http://www.geograffiti.com/X or http://www.geograffiti.com/voicemarks/X where X is the Voice Mark’s ID.  For example,   http://www.geograffiti.com/2708 or http://www.geograffiti.com/voicemarks/3114What’s the difference?  Not much.  We provide the former style for scenarios like “I want to leave a Voice Mark for a guy or girl at a bar”  The latter style is what you should use when linking from a blog, website, etc.

GeoGraffiti is platform to publish a voice message and geotag the message to a location.  It is not a private voice mail service.  Rather, every Voice Mark message is made available to the public and accessible from anybody’s mobile phone (although the GeoGraffiti iPhone3G and G1 apps make geotagging easiest).  Everybody has local knowledge, opinions, advice and warnings that the rest of us can benefit from. It’s wisdom of crowds intelligence.

GeoGraffiti offers a public voice information exchange that all generations (Gen-Y to Boomers) can relate to and use because it just requires phone, an opinion and a voice message.  Our voice2.0 map mashup website interface is most convenient for setting notification preferences, joining social groups around a topic, and searching or filtering for specific content.  The phone interface (either from an iPhone, Android G1, or direct call to GeoGraffiti at (213) 221-3802) is available when you are mobile on location.  Why voice?  It’s expressive, personable and authentic.  We have nothing against text messaging and are exploring the idea of partnering with a text messaging platform, but our focus and goal is organizing location-specific voice content.

To hear a little more about the idea and use cases for GeoGraffiti, view a TechZulu interview with Chad taken right after our launch a while back.  Note:  Chad drank enough gin & tonics that our gin bottle was 3/4 empty :) … but somehow still managed to finish the interview.

– Adrian & Chad

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GeoGraffiti for Android/TMobile G1

February 13th, 2009

We released our 1.0 version of GeoGraffiti on the Android Market two days ago on 2.11.09.  We are VERY impressed with the Android community!  Let me tell you how it went down…

Picture this:  It’s 8PM at GeoGraffiti Labs in Los Angeles and I (Adrian) am staring at some code wondering why it won’t do what I nicely asked it to do…you might know the feeling…sitting there frustrated with your hair looking like you just woke up, fist clenched, and veins popping out of your forehead…yup that’s the look.

Chad sends me an IM saying, “Dude?  I think we have traffic.”  I glance over at monitor 1 and 2 and whatttttdya know!… the logs are going crazy!  Request after request from “Google Android.”  That woke me up.  It was pretty exciting to see that within minutes of the application being made available, people were downloading it and trying it out.  5 hours later at 3AM and I’m still sitting here making sure everything is up and running and the amount of traffic has just slightly lowered…my head hits the desk with a thump….zzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzz.

Well it’s now 2.13.09 and we are still getting traffic from Android users.  Our hats off to all of you!  We aren’t playing favorites here, but you guys have put the iPhone users to shame with the amount of VoiceMarks that were created and listened to.  Thank you all for trying the app out!  We received a bunch of feedback from users and we’re going to sort through it this weekend to plan our next set of features. If anyone wants to submit feature requests for the Android Version, iPhone Version, Telephone Version, or Website Version please let us know…send us an email, send us feedback, or just reply to this blog post.  We’d love to hear what everyone thinks and how we can improve GeoGraffiti for you!

Some of the major gripes have been about the lack of VoiceMarks in certain areas and missing features on the app.  We hear you!  This content is all community generated and we’re in the beginning stages of getting a community going so no worries…we’re only going to get better.  Anyone can help by spreading the word about the application.  You don’t have to be a G1 phone owner or even an iPhone owner.  Our application is accessible from the web @ http://www.geograffiti.com/map or even from a standard non-fancy telephone by calling 213-221-3802.

We have some very exciting updates planned for GeoGraffiti so stay tuned (subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed for the latest announcements).  If you want to talk directly to me or Chad you can even email us directly for an immediate response.  What are our email addresses?  Well…. read back up on this blog entry…. could it be our names @ our service.com???  I guess you have to try to find out!

Thanks again for trying out the application and for all your feedback!  We really appreciate it!

Here are a few of the VoiceMarks that were generated from the Android community.  Be aware that some of these could be stamped with “Parental Advisory:  Explicit Lyrics”… yep we heard that feedback item numerous times so we’ll be pushing that out soon.  For now, those of you who don’t mind listening…here are the direct links:

http://www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=2611

http://www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=2581

http://www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=2414

http://www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=2368

http://www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=2323

– Adrian

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GeoGraffiti Voice Marks part of Google?

August 8th, 2008

Who would have thought it?  We have … but we’re still waiting for the Google invite.  In the meantime, GeoGraffiti got a nice review in a Todd Lucier podcast.  It’s always encouraging to hear that somebody else “gets” the possibilities of the GeoGraffiti voice platform.  Listen to it below:

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GeoGraffiti is accessible from any phone by calling (213) 221-3802, as an app for the iPhone3G, and via our Google Map mashup.

[Todd is a tourism host and consultant and runs the Northern Edge Algonquin retreat.  The full length GeoGraffiti podcast and Todd's other podcasts can be heard on Todd's blog.  Thanks for reviewing us Todd; someday we hope to have the time and resources to visit your retreat facility up in Ontario ... if Google acquires GeoGraffiti :) ]

Voice Mark the World,

The GeoGraffiti Monkeys

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iPhone3G App v2.5

July 24th, 2008

As of last week, the latest iPhone3G GeoGraffiti app is available. For a early video demo of our iPhone3G app see GeoGraffiti App Demo for iPhone3G

Although the iPhone3G makes Voice Marking a location or retrieving and listening to other’s Voice Marks an extremely easy mobile user experience, we created GeoGraffiti to be phone and wireless carrier agnostic.  GeoGraffiti can be used on any phone while out-n-about by freely calling the GeoGraffiti voice platform at (213) 221-3802.  And of course if you are in front of a desktop, our Google map mashup is available at

http://www.geograffiti.com/map

Keep the suggestions and Voice Marks coming!

Be heard and Voice Mark the World,

The GeoG Monkeys

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GeoGraffiti Biz Marks – Empowering the Small Business

June 19th, 2008

We have recently released a few new features.  The first is a feature for the small business and enables the owner to quickly publish verbal message advertisements or promotions concerning their store’s special offerings, and target those ‘Biz Mark’ messages to mobile users traveling within the store vicinity.  You can read more about the new Biz Mark feature in the below press release.  We hope this free Biz service helps small business owners communicate with mobile users and brings relevant information to GeoGraffiti end-users looking for local promotions, etc.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/6/prweb1038134.htm

Also, we have added another way for users to designate their location (for phones without GPS capabilities).  The new feature gives the user the option to enter a location’s phone number (previously only zip code).  GeoGraffiti will look up the address of the location based on this phone number and geotag it accordingly.  A phone number can be used to designate a location for searching Voice Marks, or used to publish a Voice Mark about a particular location.  Since we correlate the phone number to an exact address, it is more accurate than using the general area zip code.

Finally, we will be a sponsor at the Twiistup 4 event in Santa Monica, CA on July 17th.  It is currently a sold out event, but if you are luckly enough to be attending, please stop by our booth to check out our latest demo.  Not only will we be giving away some fun gifts, but we’ll be demoing an exciting new feature and announcing an upcoming ’Best Voice Marker’ contest to win a new Jawbone bluetooth headset.  We have one spare ticket to the Twiistup event, so if you are interested in going please contact us – the first request will get this free attendee ticket.

We are working hard to bring new and useful features to GeoGraffiti.  The location-specific voice platform was built for you the people and like all platforms dependant on community generated content, it will become more valuable as more content is added.  So please take a minute and Voice Mark your hood with your opinions or advice!

Cheers

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Getting Started with GeoGraffiti

April 30th, 2008

So a bunch of people have asked for links and description about GeoGraffiti. The main page is at www.geograffiti.com/map To register you can click on the Login link on the top right-hand corner of your screen. There are 2 ways to register. If you have a Facebook account, you can sign in through Facebook by clicking on the Facebook icon. If you don’t have a Facebook account you can register with GeoGraffiti by clicking on the Register link. What’s the difference? Not much. With Facebook sign-in you don’t have to remember yet another password and we offer some basic integration with your Facebook account. You and your friends will receive messages on the news feed and mini-feed about the stuff you publish on GeoGraffiti. Aside from that, nothing else is different.

Before you sign up, watch this video to get the basic gist of what GeoGraffiti is. I warn you, it’s a bit long, but worth your time since this concept is new and hasn’t been seen before. N.B. The UI has been updated since this demo was created but the basic functionality is very similar. We’ll have a newly updated demo soon.

GeoGraffiti Voice Mashup Video Demo v1.0

Ok. so after you register, you will be asked to verify your phone number so have that phone handy. GeoGraffiti will call you and give you a code that you enter on the site. Once the phone number is verified, you can continue and you’ll be taken to the map. Click down into the area you want to search for Voice Marks in. Right now all Voice Marks are in the Los Angeles area, but you can add them anywhere you want. Having trouble deciding what to contribute? Why not search for your favorite restaurant, bar, or club and say a few words on why it’s cool and unique. Maybe suggest the best hostess or drink to order. Seeee that wasn’t so hard! Feel free to browse, forward, and respond to other Voice Marks, etc.

Will my phone number be made available to the public?

Absolutely not! We ask for your phone number for internal reasons so our system can associate the Voice Marks you create with your GeoGraffiti user nickname. If you choose to activate the advanced notification preference, GeoGraffiti will call you or SMS a notification to your phone when somebody publishes a response to one of your Voice Marks, but this is an optional setting that is not active by default. To be clear, your number will never be seen or revealed to the public.

How do I get my Facebook news and mini feed stories to work?

First make sure you are signed in to Facebook and then click on this link http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=3344130540&ref=mf to install the application and register with GeoGraffiti. If you click on the GeoG application in your side bar, you may experience an error. We don’t know why Facebook is doing this yet…we’ll figure it out. For now, just click again and it should work. When you start the GeoGraffiti app in fb, we take you to the GeoGraffiti.com site since the fb canvas size isn’t big enough to support our google map-mashup, but all your Voice Marks will appear in your fb news feed so you can keep track of who is leaving new Voice Marks.

So what should I do after I create Voice Marks?

Because we released this yesterday, there isn’t a lot of content on there. We want to encourage everyone to make this work as a community much like the Wikipedia or Yahoo!Answers. The content will get better as time goes by and more users sign up. Please email info@geograffiti.com with your feedback and suggestions. We want to work hard to make GeoGraffiti work for you so send everything you can :).

Parting Words

Keep in mind that this is a new beta service so don’t go out and have a milllion people sign up…you’ll kill us :). We will adjust as the traffic and users grow to accommodate the load. Feel free to forward the link to a FFFEEEWWWWW of your friends…not your entire entourage…especially if you roll 1000 deep :).

Thanks for helping out! We really appreciate it!

Cheers,

The GeoGraffiti Chief Tech Monkey

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Hello World…GeoGraffiti is alive!

April 30th, 2008

On behalf of GeoGraffiti (GG), I should begin with a great big THANK YOU to our talented group of developers and dedicated group of private beta testers. Today, GG emerges from hiding and formally announces its public beta availability. Anybody with access to a US-based telephone can now Voice Mark the World!

As I review GeoGraffiti’s bug report and feature list accumulated over the past year, I find it hard to believe we solved all the minutia involved in creating GG. But I’m sure we missed something, probably lots of something … so we look forward to your comments, suggestions and critiques. Please be civil when contacting us – we created GG for the public’s benefit and enjoyment, and its free :)

There are many GeoGraffiti features to be discussed, but this entry will start with our Facebook integration feature. The Facebook application lets you and your friends stay up-to-date on each other’s Voice Mark activity on geograffiti.com by publishing stories to your mini-feed and your friends’ news feed. Currently you will be notified about new Voice Marks and Voice Mark responses created by your friends. So how do you get it? Here is the link: 

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=3344130540&ref=mf

If you have any questions or suggestions, don’t hesitate to let us know.  And check out our very first Voice Mark: www.geograffiti.com/gu/SearchMap.html?vmid=1

Cheers,

The GeoGraffiti Chief Exec Monkey
and
The GeoGraffiti Chief Tech Monkey

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