Location Day

A day and night everything location. Location has become one of the fundamental layer of the web. We're using location for tracking where we move, to explore new cities, tagging our tweets, status updates, photos and videos. We can add location to every move we do on the web, and we're already doing it. /Petter Watch all videos

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Location aware and site specifically produced music. Imagine walking any city like this, with various composers and artists marking their version of the city. I want! 

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Go Vote!

For you who wasn't at the hackathon or didn't watch the grand finale, here's for you.

The people at Userbin has been kind enough to build a fantastic web based, responsive voting app for the hackathon. It's basically vote.locationday.io where you can see and vote for the best hacks. The voting app itself was built during the hackathon and you can vote on that too. 

There was local voting at the end of the hackathon but now let's spread it to your people, and make them vote for your team. Let's run the voting for another 24 hours, counting down from now! Here's a playlist of all the demos. Go check 'em out. Then VOTE

Team AOE (pronounced like an å in Skåne dialect)

Vote for events nearby. The more votes the event gets, the bigger the circle on a map. Could be based on Facebook Events e.g. Location Day Hackathon version as Android app only.

Hellberg

Like the TV program 'På Spåret'. You enter a departure place and a destination and grab the break, and guess the location. Based on Google Street View.

Labyrint

Web based 'Find My Friends' based on latest location tagged tweet or Instagram photo. Location Day Hackathon version is based on the twitter list Location Day, the attendees. 

Locadvice 

Local advice. Advice from locals basically, in all it's simple beauty.

PingPal

API + Hosted customer solution for Taxi companies around the world to run as their ordering service. Web based, mobile and based on the PingPal API. 

Voting Site

Easy-as-a-pie voting app based on the Userbin drop-in user authentication API. This is what you use to vote on the teams, including this ;)

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Jan Erik Solem reboots

Jan Erik, the man behind both Polar Rose and now Mapillary, interviewed by the local newspaper Sydsvenskan about his previous startup and the current one.

It’s all in Swedish but Google Translate might help out, and give you a laugh too.

Polar Roses grundare börjar om

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Location Day Hackathon Demos & After Party

The #LocationDay 24h Hackathon continues. The snow show must go on!

The time frame is delayed 1h 30min so you can hack until 19.30, then it's demo/hack presentation 20.00.

The demos & hacks will be LIVE streamed!

21.00 The after (math) party! See you there!

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All Videos From #LocationDay

A playlist of all videos from #LocationDay

Speakers (in order of appearance)

Måns Adler

Martin Palacios

Craig Taverner Pernilla Näsfors

Jan Erik Solem Helena Wiedling Karin Bäcklund Sofia Franzen Angelica Vargas Marcus Eliasson Tobias Antonsson Fredrik Davidsson Petter Palander Michael Nilsson Jacob Wang Riddersholm Kajsa-Stina Kallin Alexandra Bylund 

Linus Olsson

Anders Mildner Playlist on Youtube

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16.00: Platsdata i samhället

Linus Olsson Anders Mildner Alexandra Bylund Kajsa-Stina Kallin, moderator

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UPDATE : 10.00

Program starts at 10.00 with Måns Adler, founder of Bambuser - the service  used to live stream this event.

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LIVE

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locationday.io/live

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Times Of Change

In all briefness, due to the weather conditions, we're remodelling the program and will start later. Stay tuned for updates. 

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LUNCH BEAT!

This is how we do lunch tomorrow gals!

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We have a theme song for #LocationDay. It was written already back in May 1983 by the Police.

Every breath you take

Every move you make

Every bond you break

Every step you take

I'll be watching you

Every single day

Every word you say

Every game you play

Every night you stay

I'll be watching you

O can't you see

You belong to me

How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make

Every vow you break

Every smile you fake

Every claim you stake

I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I been lost without a trace

I dream at night I can only see your face

I look around but it's you I can't replace

I feel so cold and I long for your embrace

I keep crying baby, baby please

Every move you make

Every vow you break

Every smile you fake

Every claim you stake

I'll be watching you

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Hackathon Wish List

What if you have, or get an idea to an app, site or service now or during Location Day. We all have ideas, but they're worth nothing until they are transformed into actual products, services or whatever it might be.

Luckily for us, at Location Day there's a bunch of really hungry doers at place, taking on the torch after the conference part and into the night, building, hacking, doing what needs to be done to get something up running in 24 hours. 

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Fredrik Davidsson : Speaker

Fredrik Davidsson : Teknograd

If there’s someone in Sweden who knows location data APIs it’s Fredrik. He’s hacking on the APIs of Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook among more.

My quest to find the Holy Grail of location. I’ll show loads of experimental and real hacks I’ve put together over the last couple of years. The main thread of most of the things I’ve built is how location affects us and how we affect location and how we can track everything we do in connection to location.

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Craig Taverner : Speaker

Craig Taverner is an open source software developer, technology enthusiast and entrepreneur working on many kinds of projects, especially those involving Ruby, GIS and Neo4j.

I'm CTO at AmanziTel AB where I help build really cool telecoms stats platforms, and provide advice to Neo Technology on Neo4j Spatial, of which I’m a core contributor.

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Userbin : API

Accept signups within minutes with Userbin

The Location Day 24h Hackathon will be a fast paced race against the clock: don't waste your precious time implementing things that are not core to your idea.

Userbin is a drop-in authentication solution for you web application. It relieves you from things like writing pesky form validations, sending confirmation or password reset emails and connecting social identity providers. All without losing control over your own user model.

By letting Userbin handle the authentication part of your application, you’ll also get a user management dashboard out of the box, including analytics, email templates and basic actions for all your users.

Quick Start

1. Create a free account at Userbin

2. Install the Userbin library for Ruby, Node or PHP and configure it with your account credentials. If you’re doing a single-page app without a backend, see the browser-only integration.

3. Add a <a class=”ub-signup”>Sign up!</a> link to your web page. Userbin.js will automatically parse this link and open a signup popup when clicked. Read more on what Userbin.js does for you.

4. Go to your dashboard to customize the appearance of your widget, configure OAuth providers, invite users etc.

5. Read more in the documentation.

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9 to 5

Lots of people have asked when the event start and what the programme is. Well, since I've grown up and nowadays work 9 to 5 like everybody else, that's the time the conference is run.

But it doesn't stop at 5'o'clock of course. After a day of inspiration, ignition and knowledge boosting we turn the place into a maker space to build and hack on location apps for 24 hours.

And on a serious note: doors open at 08.30, December 6 and 08.45 yours truly welcomes you all. (be early for a good spot, it will be pretty crowded). The doors closes sometime Saturday night after the 24h Hackathon is over and the winner's been announced. What happens between 9 and 5 is yet to be announced but it will be fun times ;)

:: Important Times Friday, December 6 :: Doors open: 08.30 Welcome : 08.45 First Track: 09.00

photo by Jose Heitor

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LAJV STREAM FTW

The location revolution will not only be televised but streamed. Thanks to our fabulous live streaming film crew and awesome sponsors FKDV we'll be able to live stream Location Day. It's one of the best live-streaming film crews in the world so fear not, you can follow the event all the way to your winter crib in Bali. 

photo by Rebecka Gustavsson