May 2008 Archives

With the release of v1.2 of LightPole, you can now not only look for interesting information around were you are or where you want to be but participate in developing channels of content and contribute points of interest to content communities. We have also integrated LightPole with Yahoo! Fire Eagle.

So what is this all about?

Company adds well-known bloggers to content partner network

Burlingame, CA — May 13, 2008 — In conjunction with O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference, LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider focused on the “Long Tail” publishing market, today announced a partnership with Six Apart, the world’s leading blogging software and services company. LightPole, working with Six Apart Services, co-developed a plug-in, which allows Movable Type bloggers to geo-tag their entries, add and manage related points of interest (POIs) and publish feeds that can be used to create LightPole channels – seamlessly delivering content to their readers’ mobile phones. The Geo-Type Plug-In for Movable Type is available immediately from plugins.movabletype.org.