Why Location-Based Services Will Create Multiple Winners At The Application Layer
Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil Location, location, location. Whether you’re a real estate agent
Read More →Google Ventures-Backed Location-Sharing Service EchoEcho Raises $750k From Bullpen, PROfounders
EchoEcho is one of the more useful location-based applications on the market today. Instead of focusing on check-ins and deals, the application simply makes
Read More →From Floating Data to The Ground You Stand On: Creating an Internet of Places
The World Wide Web was originally created as a web of connected documents. What if that’s no longer an appropriate, or sufficient, metaphor? A group of geospatial data specialists today published a call for a new web architecture that would supplant …
Read More →TopGuest Apex Gives You Loyalty Program Points for Check-ins at Local Merchants
Groupon drives disloyalty, says Geoff Lewis, CEO of TopGuest. “Deep discounting is not a sustainable customer retention strategy for the long term,” he explains. With his company’s new program TopGuest Apex, the goal is to do the opposite of Groupon: i…
Read More →HistoryPin Links Past, Present, Place, & Photos in a Powerful New Location App
There’s an exhibit on display at the Museum of the City of New York currently, a series of photographs that chronicle some of the history of food carts in the Big Apple. It’s an interesting retrospective, a way to think about the “then and now” – the …
Read More →Foursquare Lands $50 Million Round of Funding
Foursquare is not going anywhere.
No matter what you think of location-based applications and “checking-in,” Foursquare has carved out a niche in computers pockets and has a devoted user base that recently eclipsed 10 million accounts. Investors are r…
Read More →Banjo’s New Mobile App Connects People & Locations
The most important thing you need to know about Banjo, the Palo Alto-based startup launching its new mobile app today, is that it’s not another social network. “Banjo is a social discovery service,” explains CEO Damien Patton. “It’s a layer on top.” Wh…
Read More →Foursquare’s Next Project: Surface More Mobile Location Data
Where are you checking in?
More importantly … why are you checking in?
In March, 16.7 million used location check-ins with services like Facebook Places, Foursquare and Gowalla, with 75% coming via mobile phones. In the next year, Foursquare is goi…
Read More →2WAY Summit Preview: Who’s Leading the Future of Location?
According to comScore, 16.7 million people used location check-in services in March 2011. More than 12.6 million of those people did so through their smartphones. The rise of the smartphone and location services are inextricably linked as platforms lik…
Read More →Foursquare & 7-11 Offer Commercial Spaceflight as Contest Prize
Never mind NASA, I’ll slurpee myself to the moon.
You had to know it would come to this someday. No longer content to give away free iPads or earth-bound vacations, the social media world is about to shoot one of its own into space. (Presuming the Wu…
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