Pixamid App

Our iPhone app makes it very easy to share photos with the people you are with. With a few taps,  you’ll make sure the right people get the photos. But even cooler, you will get theirs, almost instantly, on your phone, if they are also using the app. And since it’s free, tell your friends whenever you’d like to get their photos, they can download on the spot.

This is but a first step as we go about solving a huge problem everyone has. We hate to organize photos. Since we rarely do, it turns out we all have many great photos, but scattered over harddrives, websites, Facebook, and our phones. We aim to bring together all, automatically organized by events, places and who you were with. From this base, we’ll then let your photos really tell your story, so you can share rich, personal parts of your life with your friends and family.

Read more about it on the Pixamid Blog, or go get it now for your iPhone

Each time you check into a place with Mappr, you can choose to send that to one of your Facebook groups

Want to share your location with a smaller set of your Facebook friends?

Use or create a Facebook Group and add it to the check-in, and Mappr posts your update to just that group. What’s really useful is that this will send out an e-mail update to all members, perfect for letting your Blackberry-addicted friends know what you are up to.

Mappr also posts your check-in to the Group’s Facebook page:

Facebook group post

Share great places with people of similar interests

Facebook groups are great for organizing strangers around common interests, and Mappr is perfect to share info on the great places for the group. Using the Mappr app, you can filter to see just places where a particular group has checked in. Adding a group to a check-in provides a great way to help other group members find these places.

Filtering by Group

Taking privacy seriously

Mappr works perfectly with the privacy sharing built into these groups: if content is open, anyone can see it, and see which places a have group check-ins. But if they are closed or secret, only members can see the content. You can even leave tips about a place that will be visible in Mappr only if you are a member of the group. Perfect to share those special insider tips with a limited group.

Group Tip

New Foursquare Features

We’ve added a few new features for Foursquare users:

• You can now add places to Foursquare with Mappr
• Foursquare specials show up on the map with a star, making it easier to find great deals for Foursquare users
• We have also now added the ability to turn on and off sharing on Foursquare. If you have connected your Foursquare account, you can now choose whether to share your check-in with your friends on Foursquare

Get it now, it’s free!

You need to know java and have a proven ability to learn new technologies. You must want to be responsible for the entire chain of development from finding out what to do, designing and implementing a solution to testing and deploying it. Linux & Amazon Web Services experience a big plus. Our technology stack is java/jax-rs/MongoDB.

Based in Stockholm, Cartomapic is a small team of 4 now, currently finalizing our first round of funding. With big plans in the emerging location-based services market, we are looking for enthusiasm, passion and creativity. If you to want have a real influence on a product that will be truly unique, get in touch.

If you are more of a frontend person, check out this position.

We want someone that is insanely great at building web interfaces. How you do this is more up to you; we will give you a REST interface with data, some well-designed pages and graphics – you do your magic from there. We are looking to take advantage of all that HTML5 has to offer, so if you are tired of supporting IE6, this is a dream job.

Based in Stockholm, Cartomapic is a small team of 4 now, currently finalizing our first round of funding. With big plans in the emerging location-based services market, we are looking for enthusiasm, passion and creativity. If you want to have a real influence on a product that will be truly unique, get in touch.

If you are more of a backend developer, check out this position.

We have put together a quick intro video, explaining what Mappr is and a bit about our Group concept:

Mappr shows you the most interesting places around you. It’s based on the idea that you and your friends’ activity on Foursquare and other location-based services says a lot about the world around us. The more you and your friends are checking into places and leaving tips, the better we can surface interesting places you might not know about.

Our iPhone app lets you see Foursquare places on the map, prioritized in a way that reduces clutter and surfaces the best in any map view. Zoom out to see the top places in the whole city, zoom in to see everything right around you. Filter on category to find exactly what you are interested in.

Adding something new to your check-ins

When you check in with Mappr, you still check in with Foursquare (assuming you have hooked up your account!), so you will still earn your badges and hold down your mayorships. But unique to Mappr, with any check-in, you can check in with a group.

But with Mappr, whenever you check in, you can also add a group to the check-in. We’ve got groups for all kinds of interests, from sports to food, fishing to rock climbing. And you can create your own groups based on whatever it is that you are interested in.

With these group check-ins, we’ve got one more great piece of info to help find the best places around. Use the group filter to find places with group check-ins, where other people have tagged places for that group.

All of these great places can be found on our website as well. It’s perfect to quickly see the hottest places around, and as we get to know you (algorithmically at least!), it won’t be just the hot places, but the places that are interesting for you.

How can I use Mappr?

Download the iPhone app here. The website is http://map.pr.!

We are working to support Facebook, with check-ins and seeing your friends. But for now, you can post your check-ins to Facebook or Twitter.

Why does it not do x? Can you do y?

We are aware of the limitations currently! We really wanted to get it out to you quick, and hear back on what you like and hate. So apologies for anything that is off, or completely borked. We would love to hear anything, you can submit feedback here, or mail us at feedback AT map.pr!

It’s been great to check out the Mappr leaderboard and see how different teams have been supported through Mappr checkins. We’re not exactly at Foursquare’s usage levels, but seeing some activity is fantastic!

Overall, there’s not much surprise that the USA leads the pack in team checkins. As the home of Foursquare, Twitter, and the biggest hub of social media, Team USA benefited from this active user base.

And obviously, the longer your team stuck around, the higher they rank. Picking up “back up team supporters” never hurts! So going into the last weekend, Spain and Holland will certainly pick up some ground, but will it be enough to break past the USA?

From my glance, the only real surprise in the top 10 is Australia. Sure, they are English speaking, and everyone loves to drink with them, but does that explain their position? Of course, with our small userbase, it may just be one Bruce who really loves his team.

While the global stats are interesting, far more fun is looking at the Nearby leaderboard. For this, we use a 15KM radius from the center of your map viewport to calculate team checkins.

New York is way ahead of the rest of the pack. Here is a view showing all the places there that had a least 1 team checkin.

Stockholm and London were also pretty active.

So, what happens come Monday and the World Cup is over? Besides football withdrawl symptoms, of course…

We are hard at work at Mappr to bring out our next release, which will replaces the existing teams with more flexible groups. You will be able to create your own group, or check in with existing ones. Groups can be anything you want them to be: it can be for your social circle, for rock climbing enthusiasts, “real sushi” lovers (that’s you, @Scoble), whatever!

Check in with a group, that’s all that is needed to tags it so others can find it easily. Its really the easiest way to add lots of value to your checkin. No need for writing a full tip or a review, just add a group when checking in, 2 clicks and done!

So this version will be ready sometime at the end of July. In the meantime, why not treat the existing teams now as more of a culinary World Cup! Wherever you find great ethnic food, check in with that team.

Please let us know what kind of groups you’d like to see, we will make sure to create some to get everyone started.

With this release, you can now post your checkins to Facebook and Twitter.

If you are checking in with a team, you get a nice icon on a map:

And when you check out a place on the iPhone, you can see how many individual and team checkins a place has.

We also have a nice World Cup easter egg, who will be the first to find it? Let us know what you find in the comments!

Our leaderboard shows the top team checkins, on both a global basis, and for any specific area.

No surprise that team USA is leading the way, with England not far behind. With the highest density of Foursquare / Twitter users, makes sense we see most usage from these nationalities.

But with both these teams now out, can anyone make up the difference? The Germany Argentina showdown should be a good chance for these teams to make up ground, as they are currently 3 and 4 respectively.

To get the local view, we use the map viewport, and count checkins within a 10km radius. So just press the leaderboard and choose Nearby option to get the count.

Of course, if you want to just see the places where a specific team has checked in, use the Team filter, on the tab bar on the right side. Here are all the places in New York City where Team Germany has checked in. So if looking for a weissbier to help cool off, these might be good places to try!

If there is one surprise in any of this, it is the amazing spread of Foursquare and Mappr. Check out Jakarta! There seems to be an amazing number of Foursquare and Mappr users in Indonesia!

Have fun playing with the data! If you have any cool ideas on other things we can show, drop us a line!

We’ll let you now know about the name of our product. We are very excited to have the name Mappr, with the great URL http://map.pr. No URL shortening will be needed here!

Our new iPhone app is about ready to ship to the App Store, and we are in final testing now. If you are interested in helping test, or just want a sneak peak, let us know!

http://beta.map.pr/

We will have our new map.pr website up next week as well, will let you know all about it once it’s ready.

In the meantime, expect some more here on what it is we have built.