I recently came across some great applications of a developer API, and began to wonder why people/agencies don’t take advantage of APIs more often. Two of the more recent items I saw were Instaprint (from the great forward thinking Brooklyn digital shop Breakfast), and Postagram. Instaprint allows you to print your Instagram photos from an [...]
I’ve noticed that a lot of the traffic that comes here, is focused are Foursquare questions. The most phrases appearing the most are usually something like “how can I cheat at Foursquare?” or “Can I check in at home?” This probably has to do with some of my previous posts. Since this is how a [...]
Each week I like to do a roundup of five article. There is no ranking and no “most important” articles, they are just five that I picked that I think would be interesting or informative to others. Normally I do this on a Sunday but wasn’t able to do so this week. There was however, [...]
Yesterday I stopped into Radio Shack to pick up a pair of headphones (or ear buds if you insist). I of course checked in via Foursquare, as I do most places and saw that I had unlocked a 10% discount. Upon checkout I presented the coupon on my Droid to the sales associate. And what [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking by Stephanie Clifford, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/business/media/29adco.html A Troubling Precedent: NJ Court Says Bloggers Are Not Journalists The American Culture http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/04/28/a-troubling-precedent-nj-court-says-bloggers-are-not-journalists/ N.J. student protests showcase Facebook’s role in mobilizing social movements By Kelly Heyboer, The Star-Ledger http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/facebook_student_protest_mobilize.html Senator calls on [...]
Why do virtual contacts/followers/friends seem to shun connecting in real life? I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. Every day I get a new friend request for Foursquare…from people I don’t actually know. Some are people who I literally know nothing about and are thousands of miles away. Most come from people I [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Finding a Kidney Donor on Facebook by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/08/finding-a-kidney-donor-on-facebook/ Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million by Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-considers-buying-foursquare-for-100-million-2010-4 FarmVille user runs up £900 debt by Jill Insley, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/apr/07/farmville-user-debt-facebook On foursquare, cheating, and claiming mayorships from your [...]
It’s been said before, and I’m sure it’ll be said again…it looks like 2010 is going to be the year of location based services. Leading the pack are Foursquare and Gowalla (sorry BrightKite, Loopt, and others). As most people know, with most location based services, the main function is to check-in at a specific location. [...]
Each time I sign up for a new online service I see the same trend popping up…auto posting to your twitter and Facebook streams/feeds. I choose not to enable these options just about 100% of the time. Why? I don’t need to pollute my “main” feeds with updates from every single service I use. I [...]
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 [...]
A roundup of online activity, mainly focusing on marketing, communications, social media, entertainment and more.