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,” […]
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