LightPole Launches v1.2
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?
My Channels
You can build your own private channels from existing web sources and add them to your mobile devices by simply copying the URLs into the LightPole interface. For example, if a you have a community tagged map on Google’s My Maps, LightPole can use the KML feed as a channel and provide you with a mobile version of this collection of POIs. Over time, your submissions of interesting channels maybe added to the LightPole-sponsored list.
You can find My Channels at: http://www.lightpole.net/user/my_channels
Mobile Posting
Content publishers can now accept user-generated Points-of-Interest (POIs). If the channel owner sets the “Accept POI Post” option, any POIs formerly added only to My Places list will now be submitted back via Post to the content owner’s website for the benefit of the entire community. HotSpotr and MappyHour are the first LightPole content partners to take advantage of this new feature.
Fire Eagle Integration
With v1.2 and LightPole's integration with Yahoo! Fire Eagle, a service that allows anyone to share their location with sites and services online, Mobile Discovery™ is more a reality than ever before. If you associate your account with Fire Eagle and you changes your location through LightPole or another Fire Eagle-enabled application, that information is then stored for other trusted applications and sites to access or update automatically.
You can associate your account with Fire Eagle on the profile page at: http://www.lightpole.net/user/prefs
And read more about Fire Eagle at: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
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