Tyler Bell

Yahoo's Tyler Bell discusses innovation in open location at Where 2.0 Wednesday. Yahoo's idea is to make all online content geo-relevant with tools like GeoPlanet, which is designed group content related to a specific place. Yahoo's Placemaker, an XML API for developers, identifies places, extracts data, and enables developers to organize Web content, e-mails, and documents based on relevant location information. Yahoo is focusing less on displaying information and more on creating location-accessible infrastructure, which developers can use and build on top of.