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November 18, 2008
Pushpin heat maps featured in award-winning Intuit WorkPlace Application by Universal Mind.

May 20, 2008
Placebase and The Reinvestment Fund officially launch PolicyMap.

May 13, 2008
Placebase presents sneak peak of its free Location REST API at O'Reilly Where 2.0.

May 1, 2008
Pushpin is featured at The Kelsey Group's Drilling Down on Local 2008.

April 29, 2008
Placebase and The Reinvestment Fund present PolicyMap at Location Intelligence.

November 18, 2007
Placebase announces partnership with Urban Mapping, including availability of Urban Mapping neighborhood data on the Pushpin platform.

September 19, 2007
Placebase announces the new ProView maps for Pushpin.

July 13, 2007
Placebase deepens its partnership with NAVTEQ™, joining the NAVTEQ Developer Network as a Platform Provider and Reseller partner. Visit Placebase on the NAVTEQ Developer Network.

April 16, 2007
Placebase announces the availability of Pushpin Collections: a massive library of map layers now available via the Pushpin API. Sources include ESRI™, Claritas™ and NAVTEQ™.

Jan 12, 2007
Placebase announces built-in availability of Claritas™ market and demographic information. 3000 Claritas demographic layers are available as shaded, thematic maps for 1990 through 2006 and include projections to 2011 at block group level resolution.

Aug 7, 2006
Placebase launches two new products, Dynamic Layers for Pushpin™ LE and Rendermap™, at the 2006 ESRI International User Conference.

Apr 3, 2006
Placebase launches Pushpin LE
Placebase launches Pushpin LE at the 2006 Location Intelligence conference.

Nov 15, 2005
Pushpin CX goes live on San Diego Workforce Partnership

Sep 20, 2005
Fannie Mae Foundation releases DataPlace™
Placebase and partner Vinq, LLC, along with the Urban Institute developed DataPlace for the Fannie Mae Foundation.

Jul 11, 2005
Placebase exhibits at Workforce Innovations 2005

May 20, 2005
Pushpin CX for San Diego Workforce Partnership
Placebase launches a beta version of a Pushpin CX implementation for the San Diego Workforce Partnership.

Dec 15, 2004
Entertainment Economy Institute
Placebase launches the Entertainment Economy Institute (EEI) site.


Press

November 17, 2008
WebWare
Slick data-visualizer launched for QuickBooks users

August 04, 2008
The Wall Street Journal
(PolicyMap) Map Your Neighborhood, by the Numbers

July 11, 2008
Inman News
(PolicyMap) Nonprofit opens vast database to public

June 16, 2008
Los Angeles Times
(PolicyMap) Geographic demographics

May 25, 2008
VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 149
Interview with Jaron Waldman of Placebase

May 23, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle
(PolicyMap) Web site provides wealth of housing data

May 22, 2008
Blown Mortgage
PolicyMap - Killer tool for real estate

May 22, 2008
Future of Real Estate Marketing
PolicyMap Maps A Metric Crapload of Data

May 21, 2008
ReadWriteWeb
PolicyMap (API): Demographic Data on Your Neighborhood

May 21, 2008
GigaOM
How Placebase Survived Google Maps

May 20, 2008
Directions Magazine
PolicyMap - The Official Launch

May 20, 2008
KillerStartups
PolicyMap.com - Mapping Social and Market Data

May 20, 2008
ProgrammableWeb
Demographics via API: PlaceSTAT and PolicyMap

May 18, 2008
Webware
Get lost in map data: Policymap

May 14, 2008
The Earth Times
Pushpin(TM) Introduces Free PlaceSTAT API

May 13, 2008
Webware
Where 2.0 Launchpad: The best of a dozen geo start-ups

May 12, 2008
O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference (Video Presentation)
Jaron Waldman, "The REST is Up to You: A Deeper GeoStack for Better Apps"

March 18, 2008
PR Newswire
Placebase attends Urban Mapping's Local Search Summit

Nov 20, 2007
The Kelsey Group
Urban Mapping Forms Partnership, Gets Into SEM Game

Nov 19, 2007
Greg Sterling
Urban Mapping Does Deal with Placebase

Nov 19, 2007
Urban Mapping Blog
Urban Mapping + Placebase = Very Good Things

Oct 12, 2007
go2web20
Better Maps for Professional Apps

Sep 18, 2007
All Points Blog:
Sneak Peak of New Pushpin ProView

Jul 01, 2007
Entrepreneur Magazine
Do the Mash

Apr 26, 2007
Directions Magazine
Location Intelligence 2007 Takeaways

Apr 16, 2007
GISCafe
Pushing the Envelope with the Pushpin Collections

Apr 11, 2007
All Points Blog:
Placebase to Offer Per Transaction Data Use from Claritas, ESRI, NAVTEQ

Feb 05, 2007
Tim O'Reilly:
(O'Reilly Radar) What We Really Sell to Our Customers is Control

Oct 18, 2006
Directions Magazine:
Business Geographics on a Budget – A Look At DataPlace

Sep 27, 2006
ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom:
Mapping Solution features API for layer control

Sep 01, 2006
Geospatial Solutions:
Is Web Technology Disrupting Traditional GIS?

Aug 08, 2006
VerySpatial:
Placebase: The Power of Place

Aug 07, 2006
GISCafe:
New Announcements from Placebase

Aug 07, 2006
ProgrammableWeb:
Placebase vs. Google Maps Round 2

Aug 04, 2006
Anything Geospatial:
Pushpin taking aim at Google Maps API

Jul 27, 2006
Directions Magazine:
Placebase Innovates Again

Apr 20, 2006
O'Reilly Radar:
Placebase

Apr 19, 2006
CNET:
Mashups for fun -- and profit?

Apr 10, 2006
GISCafe:
Pushpin LE Offers Google Map-like Interface for Developers

Apr 06, 2006
Guardian Unlimited:
Pins for profits

Apr 05, 2006
CNET:
Dive into these maps

Apr 03, 2006
Placebase's Pushpin LE Press Release
PLACEBASE ADAPTS GOOGLE MAPS’ API FOR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS
Placebase’s Pushpin LE Offers Google Maps Style Maps Without Commercial Restrictions

Apr 03, 2006
think:
Set your Mashups Free! (for a price)

Apr 03, 2006
WebProNews:
Google Mellows Ad Terms For Maps

Apr 03, 2006
ProgrammableWeb:
Placebase vs. Google

Apr 03, 2006
New Media Marketer:
Commercial Alternative for Google Maps

Apr 03, 2006
ZDNet:
Placebase commercial alternative for Google Maps

Apr 03, 2006
Silicon Valley Watcher:
How to monetize your Google Maps mashup

Mar 31, 2006
eWEEK:
Google, Mashup Developers Not on Same Map

Mar 31, 2006
Google Watch:
Google Mashers Turn On Google

Mar 31, 2006
WebProNews:
Placebase Plots Course Past Google Maps

Mar 30, 2006
Directions Magazine:
Google Maps Licensing Got You Down? Try Pushpin!

Mar 30, 2006
WorldCAD Access:
Commercializing Google (Or, Support Costs $$$)

Mar 30, 2006
Anything Geospatial:
Placebase to launch commercial implementation of the Google Maps API - Pushpin LE


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