Happy to announce that Geoli.st won the Lift11 Startups Competition
We spend a truly extraordinary day in Geneva presenting geoli.st at the Venture Night with a lot of Partners, Alpict, Accenture,Techcrunch, etc...and great Lift11 audience.

Thanks to the public for voting to Geoli.st

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Users can start selling within seconds: Take a photo of the bar code of the product you would like to sell; Geoli.st takes care of automatically entering the information needed for your classified. Take a photo of an object for sale; the automatic image recognition will find the appropriate product title.

But another innovation can also be found in this version: a solution that allows advertisers to put their ads on Geoli.st maps and response lists. A full “paid listing self-service for mobile” completely integrated in the iPhone, from the purchase of the campaign, to payment in one click on the Appstore; no need for a credit card or other electronic means of payment.

Buy and sell near wherever you are with your smartphone; share or exchange information on the best deals nearby. Geoli.st offers several million classifieds in the United States, Canada and England; free classifieds are geo-localized and linked to major social networks. 

Take a photo with your smartphone, write a description of what you are selling, choose a category, and your classified is available on the Geoli.st network. Easily contact the seller, who is in your area, by going to his or her place directly or by email or telephone.

Features 2.0

View classifieds nearby

• View location-based classifieds and get directions 
• Browse and search any category by price, distance or date 
• Use Augmented Reality to browse listings* 
• View, reply to, bookmark or forward classifieds

Start selling in 10 seconds 

• Take a photo of the product you would like to sell; Geoli.st looks for the description of the product via image recognition* 
• Identify the bar code of the product you would like to sell; Geoli.st scans the code and finds the right product, then displays the photo, description and category* 

Discover the classified ads marketplace

• Allows advertisers to put their ads on Geoli.st maps and response lists
• Full reports with number of views, click through, calls, replies, shares, and bookmarks
• One click payment

Social tools

• Geoli.st private social network
• Facebook and Twitter sharing 
• Push notifications

*Only on iPhone

Press release: http://pressdoc.com/p/0009sj

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Geoli.st’s version 2 for the iPhone, currently in validation at the Appstore, brings major and yet unseen changes in the way classifieds can be created by using the power of geolocalization features, bar codes and product image recognition.

But another innovation can also be found in this version: a solution that allows advertisers to put their ads on Geoli.st maps and response lists. An full self-service for mobile, a solution completely integrated in the iPhone, from the purchase of the campaign, to payment in 1 click on the Appstore; no need for a credit card or other electronic means of payment.

"For real estate, car, jobs, vehicules, etc… One service lets you automatically post to Geoli.st, Facebook, Twitter, and other Location based applications. Reach New Clients with mobile and social Marketplace. Grow and build your business using social mobile and location based Marketing"

Discover screen shots that present the various interfaces:

Offer for individuals	Offer for professionals
Paid ads on yellow background	Statistics for all your paid ads with views and clicks as well as all the information on the ad performance (see below)

Purchase confirmation on the appstore	In a few seconds, the ad is paid and is broadcast

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A great number of classifieds applications for smartphones only use the navigation and interface from the websites they came from. Ebay classifieds, OLX, and others use interfaces directly inherited from the web without using the power of smartphones.

Writing texts or descriptions on a portable phone is often difficult; navigation among dozens of screens is tedious.

Geoli.st is building for and empowering the mobile phone customer – creating, not an extension of existing mediums, but rather a new Mobile-centric one.

Geoli.st version 2 (currently in appstore for validation) offers semi-automatic, geo-localized classified creation. In just a few seconds you can create and broadcast your classified:

 
How do you want to create your classified?

Using the bar code:

Identify the bar code of the product you would like to sell.	The Iphone scans the code and finds the product, then displays the photo, the description and the category; you only need to set the price and publish the classified.

Using image recognition:

Take a photo of the product you would like to sell.
Geoli.st looks for the description of the product via image analysis.	The classified is ready to be published

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Geoli.st is an Iphone application offering a social network of location-based free classifieds. The “Geolist Free Classified” application is today the best ranked free classifieds application on Apple AppStore, before Ebay Classifieds and OLX in the US, Canada and the UK.

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Wow, after launching three months ago, Geoli.st is in the top 50 iPhone app in the US, Canada and UK in the Social Networking category, and Geoli.st launches soon on Android Market

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If you have more books than shelves but no time to prepare and run a garage sale – Geolist has just the ticket...

Read on Women's Health Magazine :

By Jessica Press

"Have a Virtual Garage Sale"

Craigslist will seem so, well, quaint, once you check out Geoli.st (www.geoli.st), a new smartphone app that's like classified ads on steroids. It helps you quickly sell pretty much anything to buyers in your area (which means you can avoid shipping to far-flung buyersand get paid in person). So take a photo of, say, that old bike you never ride or the concert tickets you can't use, upload it to Geoli.st, and buyers in your area will automatically see it pop up on their local sales map. Plus, Geoli.st lets you instantly upload your for-sale stuff to Twitter and Facebook too, so you can double your seller's luck. 

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Sellers using Geolist can promote their ads and increase selling power by automatically linking into social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In just a few clicks sellers are posting items for sale, with a price, description and photo, to appear within the area of their choice. And every classified can also be shared with the seller’s contacts in Facebook and Twitter to maximizes its reach and selling power.

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The central idea that guided the development of this application was to evolve the distribution model for free classifieds.

Often listed in columns in the traditional press, online classifieds services quickly benefited from the power of search and the interactivity of the Internet. The success of services such as Craiglist and Ebay classifieds transformed and popularized access to good deals.

The arrival of the portable telephone will enable the expansion of the distribution model, which has been fixed for 200 years, thanks to GPS localization or GSM triangulation. It will be possible to be near places where one can find interesting deals for consumption or to discover in real time.

In addition to geolocalization, the social dimension allows the publication of one’s offer on networks such as Facebook and Twitter, finding an instantaneous and qualified audience.

This service therefore corresponds very well to traditional needs and consumption habits, favoring local human contact which had practically disappeared from the web.

This application is available for free download from the App store, and covers the US, UK and Canada in terms of content. French and multilingual versions will be implemented in the near future.

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Geoli.st: Classifieds go Location-based and Social

Geoli.st announces the launch of its Iphone application, downloadable for free from the Apple App Store.

Geoli.st offers now several million classifieds as well as geo-localized coupons in the United States, Canada and England; free classifieds are geo-localized and linked to major social networks.

Both businesses and individuals can use this application, which is available on the Iphone. The concept is simple - take one or several photos with your Smartphone and post your items on the Geoli.st network within seconds. You can also purchase items easily by viewing classifieds located near you.

For businesses, this means that L-commerce (LBC or Location Based Commerce) is here!  L-commerce relies on the geographic localization of consumers - an innovative and free way to attract clients that are located near traditional businesses. Offers arrive in notification mode based on personalized criteria or on a map showing points of interest in real time.

Real Estate, job offers, products and services…. with Geoli.st there are as many possibilities for buying as selling, offering a direct way to carry out commercial transactions in the real world. What’s more, a dedicated Geoli.st social network allows users to communicate and share information about offers or items for sale with communities or groups of friends or clients.

Access to Geoli.st is free, with no registration or identification required. In addition to classifieds and coupons, Geoli.st can display the best deals from thedealmap, Foursquare check-ins, local business addresses from Google and Qype, and tweets.

Some Screenshots 

See the full gallery on Posterous

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Social search and receive (via automatic notifications of pre-selected categories) is proving to deliver the goods and information users want faster and better. Looking for the best deal on a new computer or a supplier for a new project? Your organic search results will require time to sort through and validate the relevance and quality of the links found. 

Send out the same request to your social network – especially if it’s linked to a geolocalised notification service and bingo! You have not only a pre-validated recommendation – but one that is located right next to you!

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Anyone already using a socially linked location-based product or service knows that exchanging ideas can be more fruitful than solitary reflection. And businesses are realizing that, more and more, customers trust each other more than they trust the media or advertising.

The growing appeal for customers receiving information via a location-based social network is the shared experience of peers and advertising relevant to their needs.  And businesses are benefiting from tighter bonds with their customers, leading to increased customer loyalty and sales opportunities.

So don’t shy away from the prospect of adding or using a social network as part of a product or service. Given the new levels of value it brings overall – you should, instead, embrace it.

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While you are in town around lunch time, you hear a beep. Is it your mother sending you a text message? Is it another alert informing you about the latest sports results? No. It’s an offer that arrives just at the right time, as long as you like hamburgers.

You have received this coupon because you were geo localized near a business offering a promotion for two cheeseburgers for the price of one, and the business is only 200 yards from where you are. The coupon is in your Smartphone; you just need to go to where the promotion is being offered and eat the two cheeseburgers. A check-in with the business will give you the right to a free drink. WOW!

For this to happen, you must have an application that pushes this kind of information directly to your telephone, using the multitasking of the los4 and Google’s Android, and agree to receive and personalize these alerts.

A revolution ? Without a doubt; because in this case it is not a question of unavoidable or non-solicited promotions. You can respond to them minutes after receiving them or store them in a list of favorites to benefit from them at another time.

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Years ago, GPS revolutionized the way people navigate the world. Today, geo-location services are transforming the way we explore our own neighborhood – and giving customers real value in return.

Once linked into the right geo localized service, a walk through your neighborhood can pay dividends; special discounts, notifications of products or services you are looking, customized promotions, even information about real estate and jobs.  With these intelligent and structured geo localized services, the user experience is intimate, relevant and very easy to use.

As more and more customers are discovering, the experience and value offered by geo localized services of this kind is like a new kind of adventure in which the virtual and real worlds converge.

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As location-based services become larger and more numerous, this will be true of ever more categories of local spending. So relax, check-in, and start saving money.

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Geoli.st is a second generation application that makes check-in useful and intelligent. After Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and others, Geoli.st offers a structured approach to geolocation with a system of categories and classified linked to their position.

A check-in on Geoli.st is nothing other than a classified that assumes multiply forms, from a comment on a restaurant, to a search for a dating partner, to sale offers from private individuals or businesses.

Geoli.st’s social network allows users to build lists of clients who are interested in offers or coupons from local businesses that prepare specific promotions for those who have registered. This is a kind of automatic loyalty program managed by the application itself. In addition to coupons, these tools can serve to manage client relations, e-reputation, and ads for special events.

Geoli.st thus fills the missing links between the Internet and the real world. Attracted by the mobile Internet, bystanders walking near their street front business is a yet to be realized dream for business owners.

In the screenshot on the right, a view of a classified in Augmented Reality mode.

Read also : Sick of Useless Badges and Mayorships? Topguest Makes Check-ins Meaningful

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The Web was always about communicating but it wasn’t until real conversations started taking place that the “social” aspect of the Web off (Web 2). Social functions in digital experiences at first seemed to be a trend among young people but are now so commonplace that the thought of not having socially-enhanced experiences seems illogical.

Now more than half the planet owns a mobile device. And businesses are well on board the anytime/anywhere mobile communications medium which is at the center of how people are communicating and enhancing their everyday lives.  It’s no longer about the desktop.  All of the professional and personal power of the computer, the internet and mobile communication is right there in your pocket for easy access to the best things in the real world.  It’s not called Web 3, it’s called Real World 2.0. Enjoy!

By Guest Author Julia Motet

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Location is not about a single service; rather it’s a new layer of Digital media that is very close to real life. Merging the digital and real world is a next major step, and geolocation is the perfect support. It’s not just about broadcasting our whereabouts, but about turning this data into value for everyone.

The hype over Foursquare, Gowalla, and many of the other smaller location-only players is useful in getting location to take off. But it will be whoever moves in to offer consumers real value that will have a massive impact on the location-based service environment. Those that fail to evolve will quickly die.

By Guest Author Julia Motet

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Last year mobile advertising grew by 85% while the overall ad industry suffered. This year many analysts and major players in the advertising industry have said mobile is growing strongly. The mobile phone offers an unmatched channel for delivering content-rich, interactive and targeted promotions/services - it’s a marketer’s dream.

What make the mobile channel unique (that cannot be done on a PC, PSP or digital camera, etc….)?

1 - Mobile is personal
2 - Mobile is permanently carried
3 - Mobile is always on
4 - Mobile will soon have  a built-in payment mechanism
5 - Only mobile is available at the creative impulse
6 - Mobile has the best audience measurement
7 - Only mobile captures social context of consumption
8 - Only mobile enables real augmented reality

Don’t bother with copying the tired old models of older media. Especially since consumers actually prefer the more advance mobile ads (when they are not copies of old concepts).

Some “mobile savvy” marketers and Digital Agencies have started taking advantage of this new media to carry out their marketing mix on the mobile. But if they are not taking into account mobile’s unique abilities, then it is as if they are running a radio ad on TV or showing a IAB Banner as an ad in the cinema.

By Guest Author Julia Motet

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