CloudMade Takes Top Accolade at Mobile Premier Awards at Mobile World Congress
Tonight we were selected by a jury of prominent mobile industry leaders for the most prestigious accolade the mobile industry has to offer, Best Emerging Startup at the Mobile Premier Awards.
At a large event this evening at the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Nick Black, Co-founder & Head of Products at CloudMade, took to the stage to present CloudMade’s unique offering for mobile or web developers wishing to create and monetize compelling, best selling mobile applications and web sites. 600 companies from across the globe were in the running for this year’s awards, which recognize talented companies from the best grassroot startups.
Commenting on the win Nick said, “It’s a great honor to be recognized by the mobile industry elite as the Best Emerging Startup. We had formidable competitors which makes this award an even greater achievement. We’d like to thank the Silicon Valley Chapter of Mobile Monday for nominating us, our talented developer community which is so vital to the success of our company and the organizers of the awards themselves, for putting on an outstanding contest.”
CloudMade’s comprehensive and flexible mapping platform has been built from the ground up with the needs of mobile and web developers in mind. It empowers mobile and web developers by giving them the freedom to create and monetize exactly the type of apps they envision, and allows handset vendors and operators to take control of their own destiny by giving them a key control point to create successful consumer applications that blend maps, navigation, advertising, and local search.
The jury was made up of a number of industry heavyweights including: Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist with Vodafone Group Research & Development, Richard Wong, Partner Accel Partners and AdMob Board Member, Inmaculada Martinez, President of Stradbroke Advisors, and David Wood, Principal at Delta Wisdom and co-founder of Symbian.
For more information about the Mobile Premier Awards visit : http://www.mobilepremierawards.com/
February 15th, 2010 - Posted by Paul Jarratt in events | | 0 Comments
If you’re at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Let’s meet up!
CloudMade is going to have a busy MWC, we’re meeting with press, developers, partners, investors and if you’re game, you too! If you’d like to meet us come along to one of the below events or if you’re a developer why not come to one of our Developer Drop-In sessions we’re running daily where you can enjoy a coffee and pose your questions to our developer team. CloudMade will have a table in the restaurant ‘Buffet – R2′ which is located here:
To reach the CloudMade table at MWC:First, enter the courtyard between building 1,2,4 and 5. Then, head out of the courtyard towards the area between building 1 and 2. Look for the place called “Restaurant Buffet”
Or if you are a FourSquare user? Get an impromptu meeting by searching for one of the team:
http://foursquare.com/user/nick_b
http://foursquare.com/user/copetersen
http://foursquare.com/user/cnilson
Sunday, 14 February
19:00– late - Mobile Sunday – Come and socialize before the big event at the Mobile Sunday drinks evening. You’ll be able to recognize us from our CloudMade name tags and badges
Monday, 15 February
14.30-20:00 – Mobile Premier Awards – We’re presenting as a finalist but still want to catch up with as many people as we can after or during the event, so please come talk to use we’ll be wearing badges
11-12:30 - Developer Drop-In
Tuesday, 16 February
16-17:30 – Developer Drop-In
Wednesday, 17 February
16-17:30 – Developer Drop-In
Thursday, 18 February
11:00– 15:30 – WIPJam @ MWC – ‘Getting Cool Content from the Cloud’ (location: App Planet Auditorium (Hall 7))
16-17:30 – Developer Drop-In
February 9th, 2010 - Posted by Paul Jarratt in cloudmade, developers, events | | 0 Comments
Going for Gold at Mobile World Congress
We recently found out that we’ve been selected as a finalist for the Mobile Premier Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for mobile start-ups at the world’s largest mobile conference, Mobile World Congress.
The awards replace the popular Mobile Monday Peer Awards from which companies such as Fring, Plazes and Opera have risen to great heights.
This year’s awards have some heavy hitting sponsors including: BlackBerry, 02 Limtus, RCR Wireless, Mashable and Tech Crunch and if past year’s events are anything to go by, will attract the most influential movers and shakers of the mobile industry.
It’s by no means a small feat to be selected as a finalist considering the quality of the other 250 start-ups that were initially chosen, including companies such as Layar and Waze.
CloudMade was voted by the Silicon Valley chapter of Mobile Monday as its nomination for the awards. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the chapter for choosing us and plan to follow through on stage with a compelling presentation when we pitch our products and company to leading VC’s, handset makers, operators and press.
We feel that we’ve made it to the finals because of our unique product offerings, including our comprehensive and flexible mapping platform which is the only one available built solely for developers. It empowers mobile and web developers by giving them the freedom to create exactly the type of apps they envisage, and allows handset vendors and operators to take control of their own destiny, by giving them a key control point for their mobile business to make successful business ventures.
Combine this with our innovative mapping tools that allow anyone to easily contribute to OpenStreetMap, and we’re well on the way to the democratization of geo data and expanding access to it.
Good luck to the other start-ups and we look forward to taking to the stage on February 15th in Barcelona. We hope you can join us.
For more information or to register for The Mobile Premier Awards click here
Here’s more about our latest product offerings:
Data Market Place, a market place offering a wide variety of rich, pre-integrated third-party commercial datasets for developers to add to CloudMade maps.
Navi Studio, a suite of tools that make it simple to build fully featured turn-by-turn navigation apps for all major mobile platforms.
iPhone SDK, allows developers to add customized maps, geocoding and routing to iPhone applications with ease.
Mapzen and Mapzen POI Collector, allow anyone to easily contribute to OpenStreetMap and share their experiences via Facebook and Twitter
January 30th, 2010 - Posted by Paul Jarratt in cloudmade, developers, events, geodata, iPhone, mapzen, news | | 0 Comments
Upcoming London Events: MiniBar June, GeoMob, London iPhone Developers Group
There are a load of great events happening over the next few weeks. Here are some highlights:
MiniBar June – Friday 26th June 2009
London’s favorite Friday tech meetup, MiniBar, returns to the Truman Brewery this Friday. A great way to unwind after a long, hot week.
GeoMob – 30th June 2009
GeoMob is a relatively new event that has picked up an impressive follow amongst London geo and mobile developers. This month’s event is being hosted by the British Computer Society and features talks on mobile advertising from AdFonic and local search from Spoonfed. Needless to say, the CloudMade team will be there en-masse
iPhone Developers’ Group – London and South-East
If you missed WWDC and want to find out what all the fuss is about, the July 8th meeting of the London and South East iPhone Developers’ Group is not to be missed. CloudMade will be talking about the abilities and limitations of MapKit, CoreLocation and our own iPhone Maps Library.
To hear more about upcoming CloudMade events, follow CloudMade and Nick on twitter.
June 24th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, developers, events, iPhone, products, talks | | 0 Comments
CloudMade WWDC iPhone Developer Party
Last night’s iPhone Developer Party was a huge success – with around 200 developers joining the CloudMade team to celebrate the inauguration of the “CloudMade Developer Award”. The Spring award went to Felix Lamouroux, creator of the smash hit iPhone applications Trails and OffMaps.
Felix Lamouroux, creator of Trails and OffMaps received the inaugural CloudMade Developer Award
OffMaps up-close. OffMaps lets you view CloudMade maps offline – never be stuck without a map in a foreign city again
The crowd gather in Swig, San Francisco to hear about CloudMade’s newly released iPhone libraries
June 11th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, events, iPhone, products | | 1 Comments
iPhone Developer VIP Party – June 10th 9.30pm San Francisco
Tonight CloudMade is excited to sponsor the iPhone Developer VIP Party at Swig bar in San Francisco. Doors open at 9.30 and we expect a full house!
CloudMade has been active at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference this week, engaging with iPhone developers who are creating the next great mapping and location-aware applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tonight we’re looking forward to talking with many of you one-on-one to discuss your vision on the future of location-aware apps. We also want to find out what features you’d like to see on the iPhone, web and other mobile platforms. Over a Maptini, of course!
Starting with our rich, crowd-sourced maps, CloudMade gives iPhone developers an easier way to build more immersive mapping applications than Apple’s MapKit. Developers will find our suite of iPhone supported Libraries gives you easy access to CloudMade services while supporting a number of unique features like vector data and MapSafe location management service. CloudMade’s non-restrictive licensing even allows for advanced services such as routing, geocoding or tracking functionality – without having to call a lawyer or break the bank.
So if you’re a developer looking for better ways to incorporate maps and location into your app, sign up for a API key at CloudMade’s Developer Zone and get started today. Adding customized CloudMade maps will delight your users and make your app stand-out from the crowd!
For mapping success on the iPhone and iPod Touch, just add:
- Crowd-Sourced Maps
- CloudMade Geo APIs
- Your Cool Application
June 10th, 2009 - Posted by Cragg Nilson in Uncategorized, api, cloudmade, developers, events, maps, openstreetmap, tools | | 1 Comments
WhereCamp 2009 – The Unconference for Mappers, Hackers and Geo People
Update: We’ve just announced that CloudMade will be sponsoring WhereCamp 2009. We’re excited to be joining WhereCamp’s organizers and helping to put together the best geo unconference of the year. As well as sponsoring the event, we’ll be sponsoring a special hacking contest to be help from Friday night – Saturday. This is your chance to build something inventive and inspirational using the latest geo APIs around. We’ll provide awesome prizes for the winners and snacks and refreshments for late night hackers. We’ll release more details shortly – keep an eye on our @cloudmade twitter account for details.
WhereCamp will return in 2009 bringing two days of geo hacking, map making and locative fun. This year’s event will be held at SocialText Campus at 655 High Street Palo Alto.
If you haven’t been to a WhereCamp before, here’s what the WhereCamp organizers say:
“We are self-organized in true bar-camp style. Bring your projects, work and ideas to get feedback from a group of the worlds most passionate social cartographers. Topics are whatever you want them to be. Over the last two years we’ve seen presentations ranging from emergency crisis response such as the work http://ushahidi.com is doing, to local food such as http://www.serveyourcountryfood.net/ to psycho-geography to visualization, to mobile mapping to re-factoring urban landscapes.
The expectation is simply that you participate. It’s your event and we’ll all get out of it what you put into it. As usual the event is zero dollars to enter – we will be seeking sponsorship to make yummy food and other consumables appear.”
The main auditorium at the Google Campus, WhereCamp 2008
Over two days participants will have the opportunity to interact with the world’s leading geo developers. CloudMade will be well represented, making this the perfect opportunity to talk one on one with the people who build CloudMade’s tools and APIs. Get tips, hear about upcoming releases and have your say on future development.
To find out more and to sign up, click here.
April 10th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, developers, events, talks | | 3 Comments
CloudMade at the Mobile Jam Session, CTIA
If you’re a developer attending CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas next week (April 1-3), you should set Thursday 2nd aside and take part in the Mobile Jam Session.
Mobile Jam Sessions give developers a chance to talk, debate and share ideas in a fast paced, challenging environment. They fuse the freedom of expression found at “un-conferences” like Bar Camps, or the awesome Where Camp with a topical set of discussion topics lead by industry experts. If you are developing mobile applications this is a great chance to hear the latest and greatest from the people building the handsets, networks and developer tools, as well as catch up with other like-minded developers.
I (Nick) will be leading a discussion about adding social and locative information to applications. We’ll be talking about the apps and approaches that have worked and seeing what we can learn from past successes as well as failures. We’ll also be exploring the different sources of map data that are out there for developers – particularly useful given Apple’s recent announcement telling developers to “bring your own maps” to iPhone applications.
If you want to add location to your mobile app, but don’t know where to start, help will be at hand. Even seasoned geo-pros will discover new, useful information and contacts.
The event is free to attend, and you can sign-up here.
March 25th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, developers, events, talks | | 0 Comments
Bring CloudMade Maps to Your iPhone Application
If you’re looking for maps to add to your iPhone application you’re in the right place.
CloudMade’s iPhone Maps Library is an open source library that gives application developers everything you need to create great navigation applications on the iPhone. You don’t need to wait any longer to add turn-by-turn navigation for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.
The iPhone Maps Library is part of a suite of CloudMade APIs and tools that give developers access to regularly updated crowd-sourced maps. Give your users a unique experience – take control of the look and feel of your application and create richer, more interactive experiences.
The iPhone Maps Library integrates with other CloudMade tools including Style Editor, a web based tool that gives access to a variety of professionally designed map styles, which you can customize to fit your application’s specific purpose.
The are several applications in the App Store that already use CloudMade’s maps, with many more in the pipline
Trails – Relive your greatest biking, hiking and walking
moments and share them with your friends; Trails lets
you view your activities on a choice of different
CloudMade maps.
The main features of CloudMade’s Map Library are:
- Quick development time with easy to follow examples
- Mapping framework & controls
- Custom tile serving
- Geocoding
- Routing service via vehicle, pedestrian and cycle
- Integration with iPhone Location API
WorldView Live – If the view out of your window isn’t
exotic enough WorldView Live is the app for you; This
great application lets you view live webcams from all
around the world.
CloudMade’s iPhone Maps Library provides developers with a real alternative to standard mapping on the iPhone. This, combined with the ability to let consumers bring their custom maps across with them – across desktop, mobile and web – make for a compelling end user experience.
March 19th, 2009 - Posted by Cragg Nilson in api, clients, cloudmade, developers, events, ruby | | 9 Comments
CloudMade #GeoMob and Minibar – The Perfect Combination
If you are in London on Friday 27th March and you aren’t going to MiniBar, you should re-think your plans!
MiniBar is the perfect end of week meet-up for anyone working in technology, new media or start-ups in the London Area. The tech meet-up event like no-other, MiniBar is held in the old Truman Brewery where you can sip on beer (free to early arrivals) and cocktails whilst discussing the latest trends in the London tech scene.
This month’s MiniBar is a Location special, brought to by CloudMade and #GeoMob. The line up includes:
- CloudMade – Nick Black – Why Your Application Needs Maps from CloudMade
- OpenCycleMap – Andy Allan – Why Cyclists Need Special Maps
- Nestoria – TBD
- GeoMob – Chris Osborne
- Power of Information Review – Richard Alan
Entry to the event is free, but you need to RSVP here.
March 4th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, events, talks | | 4 Comments
