{"id":542119,"date":"2010-04-23T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=114540"},"modified":"2010-04-23T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:00:41","slug":"searching-for-the-location-gold-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542119","title":{"rendered":"Searching for the Location Gold Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/3879562005_a7a57842df.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"3879562005_a7a57842df\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/3879562005_a7a57842df.jpg?w=210&#038;h=139\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-114670\" \/><\/a>Investments into the next generation of location and augmented  reality applications these days are as big as the buzz surrounding them. But while we&#8217;re  seeing amazing apps and demonstrations, we&#8217;re still not seeing  compelling revenue models.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, April 28, a select group of about 75 entrepreneurs,  investors and technologists will gather at the GigaOM offices for our 11th GigaOM Bunker Session to debate  how we will monetize location and AR services. In this session, we will explore what revenue models will work in the  near term, and what timelines we might see for the realization of  further revenue. The conversation will be moderated by <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/members\/philhendrix\/profile\/?utm_source=gigaom&amp;utm_medium=promo&amp;utm_term=location&amp;utm_campaign=bunker\">GigaOM Pro  Analyst Phil Hendrix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few speakers will lead the debate at the forum, but the overall  emphasis will be on participation and comment by all those invited. Our  conversation leaders will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt Galligan, SimpleGeo<\/li>\n<li>Tom Coates, Yahoo<\/li>\n<li>Marc Davis, Invention Arts<\/li>\n<li>Rahul Sonnad, GeoDelic<\/li>\n<li>Michael Liebhold, Institute for the Future<\/li>\n<li>Ted Morgan, Skyhook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event is open to invitees only and will be live streamed at our subscription research site, GigaOM Pro. To submit questions or discussion topics, watch video or the event, and access post-event analysis from GigaOM Pro contributors, <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/sign-up\/?utm_source=gigaom&amp;utm_medium=promo&amp;utm_term=location&amp;utm_campaign=bunker\">subscribe now<\/a>. For a limited time, we are also offering a 20 percent discount on a one-year subscription. Enter the code &#8220;BUNKER0428&#8243; at checkout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Research Briefings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/2010\/02\/location-the-epicenter-of-mobile-innovation\/#briefing\/?utm_source=gigaom&amp;utm_medium=promo&amp;utm_term=location&amp;utm_campaign=bunker\">Location:  The Epicenter of Mobile Innovation<\/a>,&#8221; by Phil Hendrix<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/2010\/01\/report-mobile-augmented-reality-today-and-tomorrow\/#briefing\/?utm_source=gigaom&amp;utm_medium=promo&amp;utm_term=location&amp;utm_campaign=bunker\">Mobile  Augmented Reality Today and Tomorrow<\/a>,&#8221; by John du pre Gauntt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/>\nImage <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">courtesy <\/a>of Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdcoregirl&lt;\/i&gt;\/\">nerdcoregirl<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=114540&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=JdSzEXCDDhA:kinaNimL9_M:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/JdSzEXCDDhA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investments into the next generation of location and augmented reality applications these days are as big as the buzz surrounding them. But while we&#8217;re seeing amazing apps and demonstrations, we&#8217;re still not seeing compelling revenue models. On Wednesday, April 28, a select group of about 75 entrepreneurs, investors and technologists will gather at the GigaOM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}