Twitter Join the Where 2.0 Facebook Group Where 2.0 LinkedIn Group Sign up for the Where 2.0 Newsletter (login required) Where 2.0 Video Where 2.0 RSS Feed Attending? Add to Dopplr Tag with del.icio.us Where 2.0 2009 Schedule Attendee Directory
  • ESRI
  • ESRI
  • Google
  • Nokia
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • AND Automotive Navigation Data
  • earthmine
  • First American Spatial Solutions
  • NAVTEQ
  • Waze
  • Google
  • NAVTEQ

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Yvonne Romaine at yromaine@oreilly.com

Download the Where 2.0 Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus

Media Partner Opportunities

Download the Media & Promotional Partner Brochure (PDF) for information on trade opportunities with O'Reilly conferences or contact mediapartners@ oreilly.com

Press and Media

For media-related inquiries, contact Maureen Jennings at maureen@oreilly.com

Where 2.0 Newsletter

To stay abreast of conference news and to receive email notification when registration opens, please sign up for the Where 2.0 Conference newsletter (login required)

Where 2.0 Ideas

Have an idea for Where to share? Tell us!

Contact Us

View a complete list of Where 2.0 contacts

Bryan Trussel

Glympse Inc.

Bryan Trussel is co-founder and CEO of Glympse, a new company focused on making location sharing commonplace. A 16-year Microsoft veteran, Bryan has lead focused on delivering solutions for Windows, Interactive TV, Embedded Systems, Windows CE, MSN and Messenger Games, and Xbox Live Arcade. He has a BS in Computer Science and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern. The privately held company, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, was founded in 2008 by ex-Microsoft veterans Bryan Trussel, Steve Miller and Jeremy Mercer. Currently in a private beta, Glympse is expected to publicly debut its new location-based service in Spring 2009.

Sessions

Glympse: Socializing LBS
Bryan Trussel (Glympse Inc.)
The next generation personal location-based service products should be much more like sharing a phone call and a lot less like forming a baseball team. Sharing location is impulsive, like text messaging and it needs to be instant, simple and clean.