Skyhook’s Tools = Music + People + Location
Geosocial music? Listen up: After integrating Skyhook‘s Local Fave’s toolkit, deploying geosocial features, Intersect World LLC‘s music apps experienced a growth spurt and has seen over 2.5 million downloads. They are not alone in the effort to tie together an emotion-based, inherently social experience of online music with human connections. But Skyhook is doing some interesting things to make it happen. […]
5 Questions for Sam Altman of Loopt
This is the third in a series of brief Q&As with leaders in the local space.
Describe Loopt as if a friend’s mother asked, “So what is this Loopt?”
Think about the last time you walked into a coffee shop, and saw someone that you hadn’t seen a long time, or you stumble into a gallery that you love. This is one of those great life experiences that are amazingwhen you have them, but they don’t happen terribly often on their own. With Loopt, you get a sharper view, you can see that a friend is 10 blocks away, get alerts when they are close, see what places your friends like around you. These “intentional accidents” are what make Loopt fascinating to a lot of people…
Global GeoTweet Map Gone Rad
The fabulous frog design has crafted a slick live aerial view of tweets as they come in and then are overlain on a world heat map. You’ve seen this before in various forms but this one has at least one thing the others don’t: 3D. Yep, put on your glasses, select “3D Stereo View” and immerse […]
5 Million Reasons to Develop that Geo-News App
Think you’ve got a great idea for disseminating news using geoX technology and want to vie for a part of five meeelyion dollars? Sure you do. Welcome to this year’s edition of the Knight News Challenge, where anyone and everyone is invited to submit their solution for advancing the future of news by funding new ways […]
5 Questions for Mark Josephson of Outside.in
This is the second in a series of brief Q&As with leaders in the local space.
So who are you?
Mark Josephson
What do you do?
CEO of Outside.in
Describe Outside.in as if a friend’s mother asked, “So what is this Outside In?”
Outside.in collects news and information from a wide variety of sources across the web (everything from your local weekly paper to your favorite local blog) and organizes it all by neighborhood. We then take all of these locally relevant headlines and show them on our site, Outside.in, as well as on the sites of hundreds of major media companies like CNN, NYTimes, Tribune, NYPost and more…
Playboy ‘Scout’ Reveals Geo-Based Nightlife Content
Has Geo-local jumped the shark? Mmm, not yet but close. Xtify’s Playboy Scout is a “mobile application enhanced with location-triggered content delivery” using the company’s geo-location push notification technology. Available on Android phones and soon on other smartphone platforms, the Scout application presents “exclusive” nightlife oriented offers and information about events, clubs, and bars which […]
Hob-Knob and WiFi Equal Instant Geo-Community
Just briefly: We seen this attempted before with different levels of success. But no reason to think Florida-based Hob-Knob has not overcome past challenges and is prepared to pull a neat rabbit from their hat. Essentially Hob-Knob’s app (iPhone, Android by Q4) empowers ephemeral communities to pop up based on a wifi geo-fence. That is, […]
5 Questions for Walt Doyle of Where Inc.
This is the first in a series of brief Q&As with leaders in the local space.
Who is he?
Walt Doyle
What does he do?
CEO of Where, Inc.
Describe WHERE as if a friend’s mother asked, “So what is this WHERE?”
WHERE is a service on mobile phones and the web that helps people discover their local area. Based on some information about your interests, WHERE helps you discover great places and great deals that you may not know about. WHERE Ads is an advertising network that helps connect business owners with a local audience…
WHERE, Constant Contact Partner to Drive Daily Deals
Constant Contact and WHERE are teaming up to deliver a novel solution to help merchants drive local commerce. Hey, why should they be left out of the geolocation deals bonanza? The integration will allow small business owners to create daily deals through WHERE and market them to their current customers through Constant Contact’s email marketing […]
In Geosocial Universe: Big Suns, Shooting Stars
It might be appropriate on a day that Facebook announces single sign-on, new API to Places, local deals and that its service is “multiples” larger than any other (Foursquare: Snap!) that we recall a visual from the recent past by JESS3 (click image for large version). You’ll note how products are compared in relative terms […]
TeleNav Opens Location and Nav to Mobile/Web Devs
This is a little cool. TeleNav, Inc. the location-based services provider behemoth, is releasing APIs enabling developers to connect such things as such as turn-by-turn directions and location sharing to mobile and web apps. The APIs called TeleNav Connect and TeleNav Share, are available through the TeleNav Developer Platform. “We have made it easy for […]
#ivoted – Foursquare, Google, JESS3 Make Voting Social
Time’s running out to prepare for The Big Checkin. As you might be aware Foursquare has launched its “I Voted” campaign with a goal of illustrating in real time where you are voting and when (or at least checking in) – it all starts November 2. And of course there’s a badge (#ivoted). According to […]
Check-Check-Check-Check-Check-Check in Everywhere
That terrible choice you had to make every time you wanted to check in (which service do I use?? Brightkite? Foursquare?) has been tackled by a few different players of late, including Footfeed and Check.in. No longer do you have to pick your favorite child – a nanny-app will log you into all at once. But Footfeed will help you get proper credit for those checkins – hey, become mayor/king/sultan/boss of your fave coffee shop all at once…
TownFlier Launches (and Launches…) Local Suite
I intended to introduce you to a TownFlier, a freshly minted Maryland-based startup that morphs mapping with neighborhoods with communications. But before I could got the words down the swift developers over there cranked out several somewhat derivative, or complementary, sites all spinning from the beta TownFlier. But I’ll start where I was in the […]
New Service Might Make You the ‘Town Wizard’
So you want to become the local digital publishing barron but lack the tools, resources, know-how … essentially everything except ambition. Today it still might be possible to both invest little and still get decent returns. At least that’s the promise being made by TownWizard, a new service offering all the tools needed to create […]
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 […]
‘Hyperlocal’ – Everyone’s Sold Except Advertisers?
This guest post, originally here, is from BRANDWEEK writer Elena Malykhina
Hyperlocal is not all it’s hyped up to be as an ad medium – but such venues are making efforts to juice up their offerings and turn the focus on targeted consumer-centric content and experiences into increasingly compelling opportunities for advertisers…