copy/paste of the mobilizy press clipping:

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – February 17, 2010 – NAVTEQ awards Austrian-based Mobilizy GmbH (www.mobilizy.com) the Grand Prize for the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) edition of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge^® Wikitude Drive is the winning location based service (LBS) solution developed by Mobilizy which uses NAVTEQ® maps and offers an augmented reality camera mode and text-to-speech instructions, for turn-by-turn navigation. Mobilizy was the top winner over eleven other finalists who were each evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges comprised of executives from leading wireless and technology companies.

“We have seen mobile applications, and specifically, location-enabled solutions, play an increasingly important role with consumers and businesses,” expressed Jeff Mize, executive vice president, Global Sales, NAVTEQ. “The quality of judges and sponsors, who are a part of this year’s Global LBS Challenge, reinforces the interest in location-based solutions and we look forward to continued diversification of applications in the LBS space.”
“Wikitude Drive is surely a prime example of disruptive technology. It is a light-weight navigation system which takes a different approach than all the other navigation systems: You see the real street on your mobile phone, instead of 2D or 3D maps.  Wikitude Drive integrates natively with our core product Wikitude World Browser, which gives you access to millions of POIs and your favorite travel guides like Lonely Planet, as well as gives Wikitude World Browser a link to a light-weight navigation system. There is a lot of room to grow in this area when you imagine the possibilities by having access to the huge number of mobile services and points of interest that are already available on mobile devices. Imagine driving by virtual bill boards of your favorite fast food chain, or simply having an alert when one of them is nearby. This is going to happen within Wikitude Drive. The Wikitude platform offers numerous opportunities for monetization. To mention only two: Wikitude Drive and Wikitude World Browser offer a fantastic base to sell premium content or to display location based ads.” – Philipp Breuss-Schneeweis, CEO of Mobilizy.

The functionality of the 123people iPhone App in a nutshell:

• call/text-function: Call a telephone number with just one touch
• e-mail-function: Send mails directly to an email address from the search results
• telephonbook-function: Save new contacts directly on your iPhone
• address book-bookmark-function: Add web links to your „favorites“
• social network function: select search results such as links, pictures, videos, news or blog articles directly over Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter or Digg
• search for friends, business contacts or celebrities: the 123people iPhone App shows Telephone numbers, email addresses, addresses, photos, videos, news, blog posts, company results, documents, curriculum vitas, micro blogs, Amazon ® wishlists, and IM addresses.

The free 123people phone App is now available in the Apple iTunes store in the languages German, English, Spanish, French and Italian. The app runs on all iPhone operating systems and is optimized for the iPhone 3G S.

Download the 123people iPhone app: http://bit.ly/frKMg

source: 123people blog

Some blogs writing about 123people:

France:
123people.com, le moteur qui fiche les internautes français
123people: trouvez vos futurs proches
123people a 2 ans et 250 millions d’utilisateurs
123People.fr: Un moteur de recherche spécialisé « profils numériques »
250 millions d’utilisateurs pour 123people en 2009

Spain:
Foro informatica
Cómo buscar personas a través de Internet

United States:
123People Aims to Help You Manage Your Ever-Expanding Online Footprint

UK:
Egosurfing just got interesting

Italien:
Come Trovare Informazioni Su Di Una Persona

Netherlands:
Het succes van 123People

Im wesentlichen handelt es sich hierbei um eine  Seite, wo man nach Produkten und Kategorien suchen kann und entsprechende Gutscheine und Angebote dargestellt werden. So ist es eine Art Brücke zwischen Produktsuche und e-commerce.

So finden Sie z.B.

Gutscheine für Bücher, Gutscheine für Kleidung, Reise Gutscheine, Gutscheine für Autozubehör, uvm

Bin gespannt auf das Feedback!

more information:

wired artice

wikitude AR browser

mobilizy

Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML)

The website: Fahrschule Klagenfurt is a driving school in Austria.
The website: Bester Baumeister Kärnten is a construction company.
The website: Psychotherapeutin 1. Bezirk is a psychologist in Vienna.
The website: Osteopahtie Osteopath Neurologe Wien is a pain therapist.

I’d love to utilize my learnings for the startups I’m working with: www.tupalo.com, www.tripwolf.com, www.yellix.com, www.wikitude.org

keep you posted…

Ole!

Spanish will come first, as soon as the beginning of March. And, as each of these new versions are released upon the world, they’ll each be welcomed by a launch party. Join us this Spring in Milan/Paris/Madrid! (Milan Travel Guide, Paris Travel Guide or Madrid Travel Guide)! (More info to come soon.)

Here’s where you come in: tripwolf is looking for reliable, travel-loving writers and translators to blog for our new Spanish and French sites! Candidates must be able to translate posts from English, and be consistent.

If you are interested in becoming a part of tripwolf, email us at info [at] tripwolf [dot] com with your contact information, qualifications and location. Let us know which site you would like to be involved with by writing it in the subject line of the email. Example “SPANISH BLOG ENQUIRY.”

Thanks!

123people is based in Vienna/Austria/Europe.

Check it out, it’s name is tripwolf.com – hungry for travel.

It’s a social travel guide, use your facebook login to be one of the first to test it out:

www.tripwolf.com!

…a lot of new features and content is currently updated – stay tuned!

Beta test accounts are available for non-European markets!