Location-Based Deals Now Upon Request with NeMeNo
So we’re seeing all these nifty services popping with several variations on the same theme: “you do something and we’ll do something in response based on your location.” A sort of call and response for the digital age. Fine. But what if you don’t want to wait for that serendipitous moment presented by the Groupons […]
5 Geolocal Services for Business
The enterprise. No, not that one – the boring one. You know, business. It’s not an area we often think about when considering geolocation services. Good thing ReadWriteEnterprise does. They’ve got a nice piece on several apps targeted squarely at this space. These include: LOC-AID LoKast Ekahau Route4Me OpenGeo Take a look at the full […]
Google Relocates Marissa Mayer; ‘Local’ Has Arrived
Marissa, search will surely miss ya… We’re not a breaking news kinda place, but this bears mentioning (thanks Bloomberg). Longtime Google search product lead and sometimes media darling Marissa Mayer is making an internal move to manage location and local services, where Google hopes for big new dollars. We believe this is the first major […]
Whrrl Swirls Over to Android
Pelago’s Whrrl application, which allows checkins and personalized recommendations (where to go, what to do) based on relevancy to the user and the community, is expanding beyond iPhone to include Android. Inclusive of the new release is an Android widget which turns your phone into a “compass for ideas you want to do” (sic). Create your […]
Build Apps Using Web Tools With appMobi
Want to create an app that taps GPS and accelerometers but don’t posses the chops to tackle iPhone, Android and iPad? Welcome to the club. Now, however, a solution could be at hand – appMobi might be handing you a free pass out of that ClubLame. It’s a cross development platform kit (XDK) that let’s you make native applications […]
CardStar Adds Auto Checkin, Store Locator
We noticed an update recently to our rewards-and-membership-card-consolidator app called CardStar. Now in addition to storing all those cards on your mobile device, in one neat digital package (where you can hold your device up to the store’s scanner – yep, just take a pic of then ditch the paper or plastic cards) users of […]
Wrazz to Connect People with Local Businesses
…Answering: What do you want to do tonight? What do you want to do tonight? We’ve all asked or heard that one, or at least the lazy and unimaginative among us. And so many location-enabled services are sprouting to answer parts of that question that it’s hard for even us to keep up. If you’re […]
Geobrowsing for Friends, Food and Fun
Bringing it all together in a nicely organized fashion is clearly what many people want in a service that takes all things local into account – especially on the small screen. Lots have tried; a few are doing a nice job. Newcomer Geomium might just fall in with the “few”. Relying on data from Eventful, […]
Mobile Local Advertising Predicted to Explode
Some of you have been waiting for the “big shift” for years. Seems the reality of mobile local advertising is at last poised to catch up with the fantastical predictions we’ve made for the past decade. Phew. Reported by Mediaweek from the study by This means from 2009 to 2014 the local mobile advertising spend […]
Mobile BBand Should Enable More Than Apps on Steroids
Over at ReadWriteWeb.com is a brief consideration of what wireless high-speed broadband (WiMax, LTE — 4G) will bring us in the very near future. Its sponsored by Intel, supporter of the WiMax standard, but we’re not addressing technology flavors here, rather what the technology can bring. RWW, along with many others boil it down to […]
Placecast Cleans Up Location Data; Serves Up LocalBox
Developers, OEMs and Carriers listen up: there’s another location-in-a-box solution in town aiming to do a bunch of cool things, particularly make it simpler for money to be made. You can thank Placecast later. While we’ve not really tried it out (we played a bit at placecast.net/places until they threw up a password) you can […]
Foursquare API Spawns Live Connections with ChatSq
We’ve been waiting for this one… and waiting. Looks like a small innovations lab called BubbleTree LLC decided to answer the call with ChatSq. The team there is taking a crack at auto-connecting people based on location. Smartly, they are building atop an established behavior (the check-in), specifically of foursquare. Their to-be-released app for iPhone […]
Ask Ask.com to Ask Your iPhone to Ask People Nearby
About 10 years ago while at AOL we teamed up with a phone-based concierge service (VIPdesk) to build out “local concierges” for several of our city sites at Digital City. The way it worked was anyone in, say, Washington could ask (via an online chat window) questions from “where’s a good place for sushi near […]
Trending Topics: Local Edition
Over at Mashable there’s a list of the top five trends on “location” happening right this very now. We’ll not bury the lede; here they are Star Power: Celebs see the location light Just a Bit: Location is an ingredient, not a recipe Lazy Wins: Automated checkins Little Brother: Personal geofences Sally Struthers Affect: Location […]
Commuter Computer
Now this is not quite as cool as it might seem upon first look. But still… Harry Kao has taken a heap of data (albeit 10 years old) related to your daily commute and ours, and plotted it on lovely Google terrain maps. Clicking around lets you see where your neighbors commute and how long […]
SCVNGNG for Customers
SCVNGR is now rolling out the ability for businesses to create challenges for customers (that result in real-world discounts) and businesses can do it themselves with S’s simple online tool. The site recently started this silly coolness in Philly and Boston and now San Francisco has joined the fun. If you know foursquare and Gowalla then you […]
‘Sup with Daily Deals from LivingSocial?
The iPhone version of the popular LivingSocial app called Daily Deals has for a week now been bombing us with discount pop-up alerts a little before noon. One minute nothing. The next – bloop bloop bloop – a spate of three or more deals on facials and tanning salons. Maybe it’s me but I don’t […]
All Is Local
A little crib sheet dug up by Techcrunch, apparently belonging to the brain of uber investor Ron Conway, tells a good deal about what Conway’s thinking. But what it really says is that what’s hot… again … and still … is l o c a l. Take look and you’ll see “mobile + local,” “social + local,” […]