New features and improvements for 2012!
Greeting from everyone at BlooSee. We are approaching the end of the year and we wanted to update you on current and future improvements. Our team is busy at work growing the BlooSee platform and we are thankful to have your contributions....
Keeping up with the new Americas Cup yachts
Tony Hembrow, CEO of Rayglass Boats discusses a new boat designed for the Americas Cup yachts. ”…the new America’s Cup cats have such incredible acceleration and can reach such high speeds, we needed a Protector that could cruise at 30 knots and reach more than 50 knots when required.”…Read the article in the New Zealand Herald....
The Fascinating World of Underwater Gliders
An interview with ocean scientist Laura Rubiano-Gómez Underwater gliders are revolutionizing ocean research, allowing scientist to get more mileage -literally and figuratively- from their scarce research funds. Ocean scientist Laura Rubiano-Gómez is responsible for the operation, maintenance and deployment of a fleet of underwater gliders, a type of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) used in the acquisition of...
Updated BlooSee iPhone App
BlooSee is proud to offer the only free iPhone app to put at your fingertips nautical charts (North America, Brazil, New Zealand and South Pacific) and live wind conditions and wind forecasts for the whole world, layered over our BlooSee map of the world. BlooSee’s app is really intuitive to use. In fact, its user interface...
Your Brain on Ocean: BlueMind
How does the ocean affect our brain? Why does the sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste of the ocean set our souls at ease? How does our “brain on ocean” behave? These questions and much more are the subject of the BlueMind Summit, the first conference in history to bring together leaders in neuroscience and...
NOAA charts now on BlooSee
We’re excited to announce that BlooSee now features the official nautical charts published by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency of the United States Government. To view the charts use the slider control that will appear in the upper right hand side of the screen while browsing US waters on BlooSee’s Explore map....
The Ocean on Twitter
Since Twitter was created in 2006, this microblogging service has gained notability and popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users worldwide. Is the ocean well represented on Twitter? The truth is that tweeting about stuff that is happening in and around oceans and shorelines can be a challenge. The reason? How do...
iPhone app updated
Short entry to inform everyone that we’ve just updated our iPhone app. There was this nasty bug in the logout sequence that made the application crash. No longer. What’s more important to most users, the infopoint icons load faster now! So we recommend everyone to update it. What’s New In Version 1.0.4 - General speed...
BlooSee updated
We’ve just updated our production server with another code refresh. Changes include: Improved the infopoint balloon: buttons are clearer, and contact info (tel., website, etc.) appear right under the description, so there’s no need to go to the full details to see them. Major improvement. Added a few categories under “Commercial services”: “Mechanical/Electrical services”, “Clothing...
Synchronization with Twitter and Facebook
This functionality had been tested in our development environment for a while, but it is finally integrated into our production server. What it allows you to do is have your Twitter and Facebook accounts (or only one of them, of course) synchronized with your activity at BlooSee. This means that you can select a set...
GSMA Mobile World Congress
Lots of people, lots of stand booths, lots of screens spitting out the next-big-thing could be seen at the GSMA Mobile World Congress that closed its doors yesterday here in Barcelona. And we were there to see a bit of it all, to see if any of those next-big-things could be useful to our project....
Google Ocean
Google Ocean (you can read all about it) is but good news to us. Having Google develop a new rich layer of maritime information for Google Earth means BlooSee users we’ll have even more useful information right from the start. It is also a statement that the oceans are essential to you. And to me....
