Centrl Makes It Easier to Publish Data
With its new convenient online submission form, Centrl has made it easier for its users to publish their data on the Centrl network.
For more information, please visit http://centrl.com/publishers/
Embed Centrl into your Webpage
Now you can embed Centrl into your site with just a few lines of HTML. For more information, visit http://centrl.com/developers
Centrl - in Turkish & Japanese!
Our crack team of translators have been working hard to translate Centrl into Turkish and Japanese! To access the Turkish and Japanese versions of Centrl, just change your browser’s language settings.
Centrl iPhone Application Makes It Easy to Save and Share Locations
Version 1.40 of Centrl’s iPhone application introduces a new feature that makes it easy for users to save and share locations. Just click location from the menu bar at the bottom, verify your current location by entering in address or selecting one of the detected near-by locations, enter an optional note, click share, select the users with whom you want to share, and your friends will receive a notification containing the location’s information.
This new functionality makes Centrl a great way to tell your friends about all the cool new places you’ve found.
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Centrl Launches New Web Client!
Centrl is proud to announce the release of its new web client. With the goal of improving user experience, adding functionality, and increasing its availability, this release marks a major milestone for Centrl and sets the stage for things to come.
Centrl’s latest release includes a number of new features:
- A Redesigned Search Interface makes it easier to locate friends, discover new things, and find out what’s going on in your neighborhood.
- New Profile Pages, automatically created for everything in the Centrl network! Now anything and everything can have its own web page. Check one out here.
- Exciting New Map Layers make it easy to find anything. Check out our ‘Recommendations’ layer to see what’s popular with other Centrl users or the ‘From Friends’ layer to see what your friends think.
- A Dashboard for quickly accessing Centrl’s most used features.
- Enhanced Privacy Settings let you share your location with everyone, only your contacts, or become invisible.
Centrl Review on TechCrunch
Serkan Toto has reviewed Centrl at TechCrunch. Here is his article:
Centrl Symbian App (beta) for Nokia phones
If you have a Nokia N40, N60 or higher, now you can give Centrl a try on your phone!
You can go to this page and install it and then you can let us know what you think at support at centrl dot com.
Centrl now available on iGoogle
Now you can use Centrl on your iGoogle page:
Click here to install the Centrl gadget on your iGoogle page.
Map tiles exposed
When writing an LBS application, you have many different options when it comes to map tiles.
At Centrl, we have licensed map tiles from Microsoft (data supplied by Navteq) for use on the iPhone and BlackBerry. We pay Microsoft per transaction, which is 8 map tiles downloaded from their map tile servers.
And we use Google map tiles (data supplied by TeleAtlas and more) on our website and on the Android (through the native Android Maps component).
Now there is one more option on the new iPhone 3.x SDK: a native Maps component that comes with map tiles from Google. We think this is going to make writing LBS apps on the iPhone much easier since there will be one less issue to worry about.
But no matter where you get your map tiles, you will find that, somewhere in the world, some user will definitely be dissatisfied with the accuracy, detail and zoom level of your map tiles. So you will have to go that country, find a local partner and customize your map tiles for that location to satisfy your customers.
It’s interesting that nobody has thought of creating a network of local partners that someone can just go and choose from, like a smorgasbord of high-quality local content that is aggregated very conveniently.
Furthermore, there are even companies that will fly over a specific area for you and create super high-precision map tiles for you. Now imagine all this were offered as a single menu where you could purchase from 
