About viaPlace
Philosophy
Imagine walking up to a store and having the store's hours, prices, and specials delivered right to your mobile phone or GPS receiver. Or arriving at the airport and having your flight gate and status appear automatically. That is the primary goal of viaPlace: to provide users with dynamic content based on their physical location.
Products & Services
ViaPlace consists of a few main components. The first two components in beta are the registry system and mobile device client.
The viaPlace registry system mirrors that of a traditional domain name registrar, where users can claim particular web addresses and point that address to a server location. ViaPlace takes it in a new direction, by enabling users to register a physical address or geographic location to any number of digital assets including websites. This association allows users to create advertising, entertainment and education that can be delivered to an end user when they are present in a particular location.
The viaPlace client enables users to view digital information at a geospatial location. The client is available for desktops, smart phones and PDAs. It alerts users when they have entered the space of, or approached geographically located information, and then allows the end user to view that information or associated experience.
ViaPlace's parent company, Spencer & Marks Inc., is a consultancy of mobile experience specialists. We provide software engineering, information architecture and user experience design for mobile and geospatial applications.
ViaPlace is Patent Pending.
The Team
William Spencer
Co-Founder / Technologist
Bill has been an author, speaker and evangelist for web technologies since the early 90's. Bill was the founder of the Unity Project and co-founder of Spencer & Marks Inc. which gave rise to viaPlace.
Todd Marks
Co-Founder / Business Development
Todd has brought several products to market and grown several companies from start-up to fruition. Todd is currently spearheading business development and growing viaPlace.
Vince Buscemi
Marketing
Vince has had his foot in the marketing arena since the late 90's. Vince is now directing viaPlace marketing initiatives. Contact Vince to find out how you can advertise with us.
Patrick Wilson
Sr. Software Engineer
Patrick has been a developer with Mindgrub and Spencer & Marks Inc., helping to bring several products to market. He is now the lead developer for the viaPlace registry system and services.
John Stuppy
Sr. Software Engineer
John has been creating and pioneering rich applications for the web since 2002. John is currently the lead developer for the viaPlace mobile client and experience builder.
Mark Mirchandani
Software Engineer
Mark was brought on to the team to work on the registry and social network for viaPlace.