Scobleizer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
One is a huge company that’s well known inside huge enterprises. The other is a startup with five employees that hardly anyone knows. But they both shifted the world last week in big ways. Note I didn’t put Google’s Chrome OS on this list. Why not? Because that’s largely vaporware at this moment. Next year when [...]
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
And, now you can see what developers have built in the gallery! That was fast. With the Foursquare API and Twitter's geolocation API now available, I can better understand how the two are in competition. And, Foursquare has an edge: built in reasons ... Read more Continue reading "Update: Foursquare API Arrives"
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Heartcrossings (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Love the concept of Ideapaint - the ability to make turn any surface into a dry erase board. For parents with toddlers who at the age when the want to draw and color ever anything their hands can reach, this would be such a blessing. There is almost a throwback quality to this very modern product. Like our ancestors who drew on the walls of their caves, we could be recording our lives on the large...
Stardust Global Ventures (Free subscription) | yesterday
We’ve been big fans of location based services. We use Brightkite and Latitude. Lately Foursquare is in the rise. We’re in the air at the moment but. This quick post is a prelude to thoughts I’ll write later about where this is all headed and why it matters.
Berman Post (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Here is quick Twitter update to keeps with some of the new features and policies you should be aware of. Perhaps the most interesting or useful of which is the roll out of the Geotagging API adding location to your tweets which can also be extremely useful in searches. You should read the new privacy policy, though there is nothing that that is likely to surprise you. If French is your native tong,...
Gadgetell (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Section: We may not cover Apple 24x7… but we know someone who does! Here’s a few of this week’s hottest from Appletell to get you started… Apple patents Ad technology that freezes device Appletell reviews FourSquare for iPhone, iPod touch Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright? Appletell reviews Shortcovers eBook reader for iPhone, iPod Touch Appletell reviews...
Socialpedia (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Twitter has just activated its GeoLocation feature which will let you opt-in whether you want your tweets to be tagged with your current location. The feature is carried not on your Twitter.com account but on third-party Twitter apps which will use the Geolocation API released by Twitter. If you’re using Twitter apps such as Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare among others and those apps implemented...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp , representatives from some of the top companies involved in location based services came together to talk about the current state and future of geo-based services. Participating in the panel were: Matt Galligan, co-Founder of SimpleGeo Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform at Twitter Tristan Walker, VP of Business Development at Foursquare Steve Lee, Group Product Manager...
Gadget Lab (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It’s surprising that Yelp, the go-to site for finding restaurants, bars and other venues, has no presence in the Android Market. But that’s okay. Foursquare does the job with a social incentive to boot. Foursquare is a location-based social mobile network that allows users to check-in at different places, post tips and to-do items with their [...]
eWeek (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Twitter Nov. 19 released its geotagging API to programmers, but users won't yet be able to access location-based services from the Twitter.com Website. The feature, which allows users to selectively annotate their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about their surroundings, has been implemented on Twitter applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Seesmic...
Latest Marketing News On Marktd (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Will foursquare lead to a level of mingling between strangers in the same room?
Beth's Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN "Next Year's Twitter? Foursquare" predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010.FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. FourSquare...
seapenguin (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Geoffrey and I are still recovering from the dreaded lurgy. We're not sure if we've had "swine-style flu", or just bog-standard, or just "bad colds". Either way, we've barely moved from the fireside for about a week. But we must be getting better because we've started to get bored. Readers will know that we don't have a telly or even a wireless. We do know about these things, and...
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