Tag Archive: Location based services

Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint.com and 99Designs.com, and Steve Bell interviewed by CBS

Matt’s first startup, Sitepoint.com, launched ten years ago when he was 15.  While living in Vancouver Island, Canada, and his staff working in New Zealand, Matt has just opened an office for his spinoff  called 99Designs.com in San Francisco.  Sitepoint is the 799th busiest site on the internet, and Matt has run it magnificently.  He’s a very impressive and accomplished young entrepreneur.

At 99Designs, graphic artists from around the world compete with each other to develop logos, web pages, and other graphics for corporations, small businesses, individuals, and others.

Steve Bell, consistently being one of the highest-rated contest holders at 99Designs.com since 2004, was invited into to this interview when he was in San Luis Obispo, taking photographs at Cal Poly.  He spoke to CBS for 30 minutes, but only got 30 seconds of video in the edited version.

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Location Based Services – Who will make the most money?

This panel, moderated by Rajeev Chang, Managing Director at Rutberg & Co, National Chair, Technology, Sonnenschein, examined the prospects for Tech M&A and IPO over the next two years.

The panelists were Sumit Agarwal, Senior Product Manager, Mobile, Google Mark Collins, VP Consumer Data, AT&T Wireless Cormac Conroy, VP of Engineering, QCT Modem Technology, QUALCOMM Bob Iannucci, CTO, Nokia Peter-Frans Pauwels, CTO, TomTom

Moderator (Chang): What is the biggest location based service?

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Tech startup companies pitch LBS, MultiTouch, video, other promising technologies

Goldspot Media: Replacement as technology for broadcast television on mobile – maps to targeted demographics of subscribers on mobile phones.

inTouch: mobile ‘iBrowse’ platform brings quality browsing experience, content to 2G mobile phones.

iBeatYou: using star power to build a fun, interactive video social networking site.

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