After Jobs announced the new 3G iPhone, location based applications are all the rage. The coolest part of the iPhone is that the lat/long will be available to developers through the phone. You can literally build a location based application without the need to work with the big telecom carriers!

This is great news for Zoodango. We've been working on a location-based "geo-social" technology platform for the past 6 months now. This is the perfect opportunity that we've been waiting for. You will see our focus on building applications that help people make social decisions based on their location. We have some very cool products in our roadmap to leverage our location-based technology platform.

We had to build the platform first. This platform will be coming out in the next 2 months....this platform will allow you to find any restaurant or place through outside sources like Google. So basically, you'll be able to find any place that Google can find. With this venue platform, we will then put some valuable applications including our smart invite app and a mobile app that will help you make every day social decisions.

Thanks Apple for finally building a mobile platform for companies like us!

Thanks for all the feedback on this initial version of our launch. We are 100% focused on implementing your feedback to create the best consumer experience possible.

Smart Invite

We are building a redesign of the invite application to make it simpler to choose multiple venues and date/time options. We are incorporating more invitation and guest features. You will also have full management capabilities with edit features that will allow you to change options on the fly. Your guests will also be able to suggest additional options for "where" and "when" to meet up.

Homepage and Site Redesign

We are redesigning our homepage and subpages to make the navigation much easier to find places, people, and use our applications. We will be incorporating a softer and simpler look/feel to the current site.

Increasing the Number of Venues

We are working on a solution that will provide as many venues as Google can find. We currently have 700,000 venues, but we definitely want to provide more venues. We are working on an API solution through Google.

Map Search

I'm most excited about this brand new product. This application will allow you to conduct spatial search for venues and allow you to discover the places that your friends or other Zoodanglers like. It will be a rich and interactive experience of finding venues with a geo-social technology powering the results.