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Tagwhat: Creating Location-Based Stories
Foursquare gave us location-based community and merchant information and established check-in behavior among consumers. Now Tagwhat, a Colorado-based company, hopes to build on that legacy by enhancing users’ location experience with what they call a “mobile encyclopedia of where you are.”
Foursquare Brings Explore Update to Mobile
The once geo-social-pioneer-turned-local-juggernaut, has updated its Android and iPhone applications with many of the local search features launched a few weeks ago on Explore for the Web — namely, better filters and in-search photos, as well as improved recommendations through wider access to Foursquare’s dynamic dataset…
Street Fight Daily: 02.09.12
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Groupon Reports Quarterly Loss, But Beats Revenue Expectations (AllThingsD)…
AOL Hires Chief Content Officer for Patch (Reuters)…
‘There Are No Layoffs Planned,’ Says Patch (Romenesko)…
J-Students Go Local: Inside NYU’s East Village Hyperlocal Site
As editor of The Local’s East Village blog, Daniel Maurer teaches his students about community reporting in the streets around their campus — letting them wet their feet online, and sometimes get picked up by the Times. The site is fully funded, but part of Maurer’s mission is also to remake the site into a viable business by bulking up restaurant coverage and other service features, setting the groundwork for ad sales, and potentially planning a neighborhood events series…
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