Daily Archives: March 8, 2011

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Geosocial Android App Announced

Woomark announced the launch of its new location-based geosocial network and Application for Android mobile devices.

Technology has evolved and the raise in popularity of Google maps, Street View and GPS, has created opportunities for new services like Foursquare, Yelp, Qype and Woomark to emerge.

Looking for places of interest anywhere in the world, such as a skydiving center in Autralia, places to practice Parkour in the UK, insolite restaurants in Italy, places to play Poker in Germany or places to go out in Moscow, is now made easy with the Woomark location-based services and Android App.

Users can register to Woomark for free by using their existing Facebook, Google or Yahoo accounts and can add, share and discover places around them either from the woomark.com website or directly from their mobile application using the GPS.

The Woomark web and mobile applications allow users to connect with like-minded people, to explore places of interests based on location and posted by other users. They can then share those one they like on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Stumbleupon and other popular services.

Users can also join groups, create new ones, follow other users “a la Twitter” and even send each other private messages to get in touch.

Woomark is fully integrated into Google maps and Street view and users can get directions to places and get a print-friendly summary of their directions.

Visit www.woomark.com for more details.

Virgin Media Throttling P2P Traffic

Virgin Media announced it will throttle both P2P and Newsgroup traffic at peak times to prevent slowness in other areas such as online multiplayer gaming.

Trialing of the new traffic management plans started on March 2 and only applys to upstream traffic, download speeds will be unaffected.

The new traffic management plans will apply on top of the existing traffic shaping Virgin Media has in place and will affect all packages, including the previously unmanaged 100mb service.

Virgin Media said:

“After the successful out of hours trial of our combined upstream and downstream file sharing traffic management policy we will be trialling this new policy between 17:00 and 00:00 for one week starting on Wednesday 2nd of March.

Between these times P2P and Newsgroup upstream traffic will be managed in a similar way to our current downstream traffic management. If the trial is successful we’ll launch the new policy immediately.

We’re interested if you could tell us how this affects your gaming experience over the next few days and if you see any general improvement in latency and ping at peak times.

We moderate the total volume of file sharing traffic on our network between 5pm and midnight on weekdays and midday and midnight on weekends. This policy, which applies to all broadband packages, is restricted to Peer to Peer (“P2P”) applications and Newsgroups (which are commonly used to distribute large amounts of data). This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like watching iPlayer, online gaming, making calls via Skype, downloading music tracks from iTunes or streaming them from Spotify and sending an email or normal browsing are unaffected.”