Geogad recently began its qwest to find the traveler with the best submitted tour stop to the Geogad website.  The Super Traveler Contest began on July 2nd, 2010 and will run through August 31, 2010.  Every Geogad Traveler will be able to not only enter in the contest, but also vote for the best user generated tour stops.

A Geogad tour stop is a video clip or a collection of MP3 and image files that are compiled by Geogad to form an audio slideshow. These multimedia files are associated with a specific location to form a tour stop, which is viewable through Geogad’s distribution platform on the Internet, the mobile web, and Android-powered smartphones.

To begin uploading your tour stops today, go to Geogad.

Geogad has just released a new improved version of its Android app, Geogad Tours. This new, revised version now includes

• More ways to upload your own video-based tour stops directly from your phone
• Purchase tours directly from your phone
• More maps to identify tour locations
• Improved look and feel to make it even more fun to surf for tour stops

Geogad had the privilege of launching the improved Geogad Tours app at at the 4G Symposium held at Stanford University yesterday. The app was presented to a packed auditorium filled with industry reps from across Silicon Valley. The demo was well-received and went on to win the ”Best 4G Mobile Consumer Application” award. Our thanks to both the judges from Intel, Sprint, Clear, Cisco, Comcast and for Stanford, Sprint, and Clearwire for organizing this wonderful events.

Geogad will be teaching introductory Android classes on the day before Google I/O in San Francisco. This will be a very busy day because later that night, Geogad will be showing off the newest version of Geogad’s Android app at the Android Mixer at Twilio. Should be tons of fun. See you there.

As regular readers of this blog know, Geogad has been a big supporter of the Android ecosystem and is available to travelers through its own Android app. It has also been a big supporter of the upcoming Android Hackathon, the first Android hackathon in Silicon Valley. This event will take place on March 13 at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View.

The best feature of hackathons is the way that programmer spontaneously come together to form teams to transform an idea into a working app. To help beginning Android programmers pick up the basics on Android, Geogad will be presenting some introductory classes on Android in the weeks before the hackathon.

The first class is scheduled for Feb. 16 from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. The class will take place at Access Growth in Santa Clara. Two instructors will teach up to 20 students on the basics of Android including

• Setting up Eclipse to create and run Android projects.
• In-depth look at a few Hello World-type projects.
• Lifecycle of an Activity
• Intents, Services and launch modes
• Android tools bundled in the SDK
• Techniques for debugging Android projects

Since this is a good bit of material to cover in a relatively short time, all students are required to have downloaded and installed the latest versions of Eclipse, Sun’s JDK 6, and the Android SDK before arriving at the class. Students must already know how to programming in the Java programming language on which Android is based.

This class will cost $25 per person and is limited to 20 students. You can register here. For more information, contact service at geogad.com

Introductory Android Class

 Before the hackathon begins, Geogad will be helping beginning Android programmers learn some of the basics to allow them to contribute to the team projects.

SV Android Developer Meetup held a competition for its members to vote on what were their favorite Android Apps. Geogad’s Tour app was honored as the second most favorite app. Thanks for the support and the votes of appreciation. It is nice to know that Geogad’s app is so highly prized.

Be assured that we will keep up improving the app and Geogad’s entire travel content platform to provide the best services for all travelers.

As always, let us know what you think about Geogad’s services, especially its Android-based application.