About Us
- Who's Behind Fon11?
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Fon11 is brought to you by Mo'Blast Inc.
- Who is Mo'Blast?
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We like to think of ourselves as innovators in the location based services space.
We have spent the last few years researching, developing our very own location-based platform and
a set of APIs one can use to build new, interesting applications centered around location, presence,
proximity, and mobility.
- Where is Mo'Blast?
- Fon11 is a global effort. Our team is likewise global.
We work from Sunnyvale, CA., Berkeley, CA.,
Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and soon Paris, France.
- How is it Made?
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The Fon11 is mobile Web buzz compliant. It's built using standard Web technologies, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and various
libraries such as JQuery and DWR. Our core is EJB 3.0, using Hibernate and TopLink with PostgreSQL database.
Our backend, the location-based platform, is designed for high availability and scalability.
We implemented a divide and conquer strategy; running many small applications (applications deployed on Apache,
Tomcat, JBoss, and GlassFish instances) on arrays of commodity servers. We aggressively cache and index with
Apache ehcache and Lucene index. Our production servers are
heavy duty, Quad-Core machines build by us. We backup in real-time using RAID 5 technology.
Mo'Blast developers code in Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. We use NetBeans and Eclipse IDEs. Our production
servers run RedHat Fedora. We use XEN virtualization in our sand boxes.