Locle Re-Engineer Location Platform

Upgrade to Proprietary Location Platform Enable 3rd Party Developers to Leverage Location Services in Their Own Apps

Dublin based mobile start-up Locle yesterday launched an upgrade to its proprietary location platform that powers its successful mobile social service, presenting an API for web services which makes the entire web application available to 3rd parties through a set of standardised web interfaces.

Locle is a social mapping application for mobile phones that combines information from a user's mobile handset address book with social networks such as Bebo, Facebook and MySpace to create an enhanced mobile web experience that facilitates ‘here's where I am, and here's where my friends are' for social networks and groups.

The re-architected platform is fully object oriented which allows much more rapid and easier adaptation of the business functionality, introduction of new features and integration with external networks and strategic partners.

Application developers that are planning to introduce location features to their own applications can now leverage the Locle system for their own benefit. It lets developers code their own front-end (be they desktop clients, web applications, mobile apps, gadgets/widgets, SMS or voice response services) to interact directly with the API.

Locle were amongst the world's leading mobile social software developers to launch OSLO (Open Sharing of Location-based Objects) to ensure the incompatibility problems that have plagued instant messenger platforms (e.g. MSN users not being able to message AOL users) are not repeated with location based social software. The agreement enables the combined alliance 30 million users to share location information and interact between networks, which until now has not been possible across different social networks.

Established in 2008 by Ronan Higgins and co-founder, Peter Oonk (pictured above), Locle has already received several awards including the eircom web innovation award and Docklands Innovation Park Enterprise Awards 2009, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Golden Spider Best Mobile Application Award, the 2008 Nokia Mobile Innovation Award, and 'Best Use of Social Media' at the Irish Internet Awards in 2008.

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