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Now you can grab your location in XML format

You can now get your location in XML format using the Buddy tracker. That way, you can have your location sent from your phone and use it in any web application you want.

In order to do this, you need to:
- enable the Tracker on you mobile device
- go in the tracker page in the User section of the site
- Hit "Publish my location to a URL"
and that's it!!
Among the links that will appear, one will be for your location in XML format that you can use anywhere else. Click on it and you will have a URL that  you can use anywhere else.

Integrating Navizon with other applications has never been easier!

How I made 10000 Navizon points in 45 minutes

Today I decided to break the world record of the number of Navizon points earned in an hour.
So I took two Windows Smartphones (Qtek 8300) and equipped them with a prepaid sim card, one from T-Mobile one from Cingular. The cool thing with those Windows Smartphones is that they map ten times more cell towers than Pocket PCs, which certainly helped me break this record. I then paired them with my GPS device (using the Physical output port in Navizon and the Bluetooth incoming port). I added my Verizon XV6700 to the mix. So I had something looking like:
GPS -> T-Mobile smartphone -> Cingular smartphone -> Verizon XV6700

On my way back from the airport, where I was coming back from a little Labor Day get-away, I took a cab home. When I got there I looked at the  screens,  added the points earned by each one of the three phones and... Bingo!!! 10,254 points (which translates in $19.99 with Navizon's new reward system). Hehe... that almost paid for my cab ride :-)