July 2008 Archives
Provides location-aware mobile discovery solutions to Trulia and Brownstoner
San Francisco — July 22, 2008 — In conjunction with the Inman News Real Estate Connect Conference, LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider for content publishers, today announced a focus on the real estate vertical with Trulia and Brownstoner. These innovative partners are building solutions on the LightPole mobile platform to provide their customers with unprecedented access to a wealth of real-time real estate information, no matter where they are. By offering solutions that address the entire spectrum of the market, the LightPole system demonstrates the scale and capabilities needed for category leaders such as Trulia, while offering the economics necessary to support hyper-local “long tail” players like Brownstoner.
In response to Antony Brydon's Post: Best-of-breed vs mobile application suites:
I would never have thought to compare our system to a portal. I don't like portals. They're closed little worlds in which someone else decides what you can or cannot see. This is exactly the opposite of what we are providing at LightPole. We are building enabling technology that allows a much wider variety of content and applications to be delivered to the mobile phone. You could think about it as bringing web 2.0 to mobile (versus previous attempts at bringing "the web" to the phone). Let me explain.