2009

Okay, so it has been 1 year since I posted...I stink at this.  I'm still at Skyhook in Boston and loving it (although if we could shrink winter, I'd be happier!).

A lot has happened in that one year (other than the global economic disaster, the historic presidential election, etc.), some location highlights:

• Wifi positioning has become an accepted (expected?) method for enhancing location determination
• Millions of devices are running our software
• We grew to over 100M APs and over 400K Cells in our system
• Major GPS vendors have licensed our tech to include XPS with their chips

2009 will:

• see location becoming a first-class citizen at the OS/driver level
  
• see a growth in privacy concerns as the number and types of apps grow
  
• see a huge growth in web based location integration
• see location based context become a focus
• push the capabilities of indoor location to an unprecedented level

I'll be continuing to work with the team to push on these and other fun technology fronts (scalability being another interesting one) as well as working on some more futuristic researchy items related to the above.

On the personal front, probably best to track me on facebook if interested in that sort of thing.

I promise to push myself to keep this one active on the resarchy side of things.

Kipp