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Maponics First to Expand Neighborhood Coverage to All Populated Continents

on April 20, 2010 at 11:03AM

We announced today the latest release of our Neighborhood Boundaries product line, which expands worldwide coverage to more than 105,000 neighborhoods in 42 countries, including top metros in South America, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. This release also continues to expand US and Canadian coverage with new neighborhoods in 100 North American cities.

“We continue to hear from our customers that international neighborhood coverage is vital to their plans to add cultural and location context to everything from local search to social networking,” said Darrin Clement, CEO of Maponics.

Click here to read the entire press release.

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Directions Magazine Podcast: Conversation with Maponics CEO

on April 5, 2010 at 8:40PM

As part of the “Hallway Conversation” series, Directions Magazine Executive Editor, Adena Schutzberg, interviewed Maponics CEO, Darrin Clement.

Listen Now: A Hallway Conversation with Darrin Clement, CEO of Maponics, Data Provider to Twitter.

Darrin discussed how Maponics worked with Twitter to provide the Neighborhood Place information in Twitter’s new Location Feature. Adena and Darrin also shared insights and trends about how location is used by consumers via cell phones and through social media in general.