Releases

LightPole Announces Partnership with Six Apart, Launches Geo-Type Plug-In for Movable Type
Company adds well-known bloggers to content partner network

Burlingame, CA — May 13, 2008 — In conjunction with O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference, LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider focused on the “Long Tail” publishing market, today announced a partnership with Six Apart, the world’s leading blogging software and services company. LightPole, working with Six Apart Services, co-developed a plug-in, which allows Movable Type bloggers to geo-tag their entries, add and manage related points of interest (POIs) and publish feeds that can be used to create LightPole channels – seamlessly delivering content to their readers’ mobile phones. The Geo-Type Plug-In for Movable Type is available immediately from plugins.movabletype.org. Read More

LightPole Announces Integration with Yahoo! Fire Eagle Geo-location Platform
Mobile Posting and My Channels Features Among Other New LightPole Enhancements

San Francisco — April 23, 2008 — LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider focused on the “Long Tail” publishing market, today announced integration with Yahoo! Fire Eagle, a personal location service platform. LightPole also added the Mobile Posting and My Channels features to its flagship release – two new capabilities that provide users with a more interactive and content-rich experience from their mobile device, no matter where they are or what they’re doing. The latest enhancements can be trialed at beta.lightpole.net. Read More

LightPole Debuts End-to-End Publishing System for Location-Aware Mobile Discovery
Company launches with support from Alloy Ventures and broad array of content partners

San Francisco — March 18, 2008 — LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider focused on the “Long Tail” publishing market, today announced availability of the LightPole Publishing System, a complete solution that enables publishers, bloggers and other content providers to distribute content to mobile devices, and engage those users in two-way communication. Read More