User:VladoD/Bloosee

BlooSee, Inc.
Company type	Private
Industry	Maps and Social Media
Founded	2010
Headquarters	Palo Alto, CA and Barcelona, Spain
Website	http://bloosee.com/

BlooSee, Inc. is a company that produces consumer web software, mobile applications, APIs, social media and maritime navigation-related services that enable users to add, edit or comment on user geolocated knowledge and information about the oceans, seas and coasts. BlooSee is designed for sea-lovers, like sailors, power boaters, wind/kite/surfers, kayakers, scuba divers and ocean conservationists. Unlike its competitors, BlooSee's software allows multiple, naturally overlapping marine leisure verticals to share a common map and social community. The BlooSee products and services enable marine leisure verticals to plan, record and share their experiences interacting with the world's bodies of water, ranging form oceans and seas to rivers and lakes.

BlooSee's iPhone application allows users to access the social map on the water, away from a desktop, through mobile devices. Although, any personal computer that can access the Web through a mobile wifi connection can be used to download from and upload to the BlooSee social map while on the water. Since mobile network coverage extends for up to 20 miles offshore in most visited coasts of the world, BlooSee is currently accessible to all but ocean-crossing voyagers.

BlooSee was conceived in Barcelona and commercially launched in Silicon Valley in 2010. Its product and service is available worldwide.

Website

BlooSee's social online mapping destination where sea-lovers, like sailors, power boaters, wind/kit/surfer, kayakers, scuba divers, beach combers and ocean conservationists, share knowledge and information about the oceans, seas and coasts is viewable at bloosee.com/explore. It's free to browse and free to create or edit content on the map, though creation and editing requires registration. There is also a free BlooSee iPhone app.

BlooSee also provides a social media platform for sea-lovers. Users can share their knowledge and ideas within the BlooSee environment or on other social networks (Facebook[[1]], Twitter[[2]] and others) through convenient built-in settings. Each bit of geolocated information, an "infopoint", is assigned a unique url. So, now BlooSee has made it possible to blog, tweet, email... about a pod of dolphins, a beautiful reef, an anchorage, a surf spot, any dynamic and ever changing thing about the seas that previously had no way of being geolocated and talked about over the Web.

History

BlooSee, Inc. was formed in 2010 and headquarterd in Silicon Valley. The BlooSee project was started earlier by founders Pedro Valdeolmillos and Marc Puig in Barcelona, Spain. Pedro recognized the lack of a really useful and comprehensive online, map-based destination for sailors to geolocate and share, especially local knowledge about locations and sea conditions. Marc teamed up to help develop the software tools and presto, www.bloosee.com. The project then moved to Silicon Valley and expanded its draw to include not only sailors, but also almost every other marine leisure vertical. US team members include Vlado Defranceski [Wikipedia author since 2004], VP of Business Development and Manuel Maqueda, VP Community. Everyone on the team is a passionate sea-lover, sailor and licensed captain, some are also active scuba divers and ocean conservationists. BlooSee is committed to keeping free and available to sea-lovers of every kind the unique, experiential, local knowledge of people with a life-long connection to the seas that are willing to share it with others. All content on BlooSee is crowd-sourced, without manipulation or commercial bias, free to browse and open to anyone to improve or add anew.

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Expansion.com (2009-09-17) La 'Wikipedia de los mares' busca un socio inversor en Silicon Valley. Last visited 2010-08-06.
StepOne Blog (2010-05-30) Reporting the Spanish Movement in Silicon Valley. Last visited 2010-08-06.
Informe Semanal (aired 2010-06-05, interview at 12th minute of program) A la conquista de Silicon Valley. Last visited 2010-08-06.

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