Ignite talk about Tagzania in Where 2.0 2007

Slide 1: Tagzania There's No Place Called Nowhere Luistxo Fernandez

Slide 2: Tagzania is a very simple mashup A del.icio.us for places Instead of URLs, you tag real-world locations www.tagzania.com/tag/where2007

Slide 4: Our own location: the periphery

Slide 5: We’re, hmmm, Basque

Slide 6: CodeSyntax We're a small normal web dev company Customers believe we \"design web pages\" Work with free software (Python, Zope)

Slide 7: CodeSyntax We're earning a living, not getting rich Tagzania's a side project, a passion An experiment if you will Global traffic, metrics, competition...

Slide 8: Competition

Slide 9: Business model Not too many expenses. Mashups and projects for bigger partners

Slide 10: Tagzania on its own is worth an extra little push Thinking about the tagline - Tagging the planet “Your personal geography” Not so much neogeography

Slide 11: Geography, old and new The Firefighter's questions: - Where's The Fire? - How do I get there? - What kind of place am I going to find?

Slide 12: Where's the fire?

Slide 13: How do I get there?

Slide 14: What kind of place is it? Review, comment...

Slide 16: The Long Tail

Slide 17: The road ahead Interact with other tools: Twitter (and clones) • Upcoming • Popfly • etc •

Slide 18: The road ahead Display other imagery: • Mapstraction: Yahoo Maps, MS Virtual Earth, OpenStreetMap • Openlayers to display WMS

Slide 19: - Far in the periphery, lost in the long tail of the geographic web... - Open to everyone - A partner with a global viewpoint, not married to anyone in particular, a virgin state...

Slide 20: Eskerrik asko Luistxo Fernandez Beloved information minister of Tagzania