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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