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
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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
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 –
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Locationizer Hits the Spots
Big props to Locationizer for making it even easier for us to let out brains turn to mush. Worried about forgetting, well, anything associated with a place? “Next time your
Will Google Go Local Better than Bing!
Is that a “ding-ding” or a “gong”? Business Insider has a micro interview on the subject with ReachLocal CEO (and man with the best name in the biz) Zorik Gordon.
‘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.
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