Releases

LightPole Makes Official Foray into Real Estate Market
Provides location-aware mobile discovery solutions to Trulia and Brownstoner

San Francisco — July 22, 2008 — In conjunction with the Inman News Real Estate Connect Conference, LightPole, Inc., a mobile application service provider for content publishers, today announced a focus on the real estate vertical with Trulia and Brownstoner. These innovative partners are building solutions on the LightPole mobile platform to provide their customers with unprecedented access to a wealth of real-time real estate information, no matter where they are. By offering solutions that address the entire spectrum of the market, the LightPole system demonstrates the scale and capabilities needed for category leaders such as Trulia, while offering the economics necessary to support hyper-local “long tail” players like Brownstoner.

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