It seems the theme of South By Southwest (or more specifically SXSW Interactive) this year is all about location based services. Understandably, the big matchup is between Foursquare and Gowalla. Earlier today I read post on The Social Times about this particular matchup. The reason I keep saying “matchup” is because of the GREAT illustration [...]
For those who live in New York or pretty much anywhere that it snows, you may have heard the term “snowpocalypse.” Yesterday in New York we even had a “slushpocalypse” for a portion of the day. What you may not know is that you were able to check-in to both snowpocalypse and slushpocalypse on Foursquare. [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Chatroulette’s Creator, 17, Introduces Himself by Brad Stone, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/ Five Reasons to Love Google Buzz, Five Reasons Not by David Coursey, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reasons-love-loathe-google-buzz/story?id=9819647 Google Working On Translating Phone Conversations In Real-Time by Tricia Duryee, mocoNews http://moconews.net/article/419-google-working-on-translating-phone-conversations-in-real-time-/ Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media [...]
Earlier today I read a short post by Shiv Singh asking if society is going to become all advertising all the time. It included a trailer from “Logorama” where the whole world was covered in logos. Is this the world that we are heading into, a world where all we see are ads plastered on [...]
Earlier today I read an article titled Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer. Prior to this article we are read about how Yelp had introduces a location check-in feature. Both article mentioned how they may have an advantage over Foursquare due to there large (or giant, in Facebook’s case) existing community. But one thing left [...]
Do you check in at your home on Foursquare? Do you check in at your office? Do you check in at “social” locations only, or do you check in at gas stations, grocery stores, barber shops and the like? Originally I only checked in at “social” locations like bars, restaurants, parks and other associated locations. [...]
I’m going to be trying out a new feature for the blog. Each week I will be posting five articles that I found interesting over the course of the week. These are not intended to be the five most important articles, just five that I found interesting and thought others would like as well. The [...]
Today I unlocked a new badge on Foursquare, the Far Far Away Badge. This particular badge is intended for those in New York City who check in at a location above 59th Street. I was happy to unlock a new badge, but a little curious as to why it was unlocked…since I was in Brooklyn at [...]
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