Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week.
Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party
by Pamela Seiple, HubSpot Blog
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5697/Restaurant-Owner-Increases-Sales-by-110-with-Foursquare-Swarm-Badge-Party.aspx
Austin Or Bust: 25 Entrepreneurs, Five Ideas And One Bus
by Tomio Geron, WSJ
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/03/09/austin-or-tech-bust-25-entrepreneurs-five-ideas-and-one-bus/
Why do we ignore ‘real-time’ results from Google search?
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/09/google-eye-tracking-twitter-real-time-search#
Facebook turns out to be a pretty good friend to Foursquare, Hitwise data shows
by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat
http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/12/facebook-foursquare-2/
Google to shut China search engine
by Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing, Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dd69e680-2e06-11df-b85c-00144feabdc0.html