Opening Up the ‘Walled Garden’: Content APIs and the Location Layer
For small-radius media, in which location plays a far greater role than niche or national media, walling off content will substantially impede industry growth. Ignoring LBS as a viable distribution channel is tantamount to leaving the industry’s most valuable asset grossly under-leveraged.
Street Fight Daily: 12.07.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming ‘Check-in Offers’ Feature (TechCrunch)…
Only 5% of Adults Use Location-Based Checkin Apps (Mashable)…
Mobile Dining Apps LocalEats & BiteHunter Announce Partnership (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.06.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Foursquare Hits 15 Million Users (BetaBeat)…
Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win (TechCrunch)…
Newsday to Hire 25 in Hyperlocal Digital Expansion (Poynter)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.01.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups... New Foursquare Button Lets You Collect and Use Reviews Later (Mashable)…
As Stock Tumbles, Groupon Q4 Off to a Stellar Start (Yipit Blog)…
Zaarly, TaskRabbit and the Rise of the Convenience Economy (BetaBeat)…
Foursquare Partners With Scoutmob to Syndicate Offers
This morning, deals site ScoutMob and location-based social network Foursquare have announced a partnership that will see the Atlanta-based company’s local deals distributed across Foursquare’s platform. 500 deals from Scoutmob’s thirteen markets will join offers from a handful of other sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Gilt City that are already on Foursquare…
Case Study: At Choice Hotels, a Check-In Consolidator is Key
For nearly a year, Choice Hotels has been running a special offer that rewards members of its Choice Privileges program with 50 extra points each time they check-in on Foursquare, Facebook, or Gowalla at more than 1,500 participating properties. By partnering with Topguest, Choice has been able to use LBS to build customer engagement without worrying about managing the infrastructure that a large-scale program requires…
Street Fight Daily: 11.29.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.…
LocalVox Launches Full-Service Marketing Solution To Help Local Merchants Target Their Customers (TechCrunch)…
Groupon Stock Now Half Off (AllThingsD)…
How Groupon and Livingsocial Impact Businesses and Users (Washingtonian)…
Street Fight Daily: 11.23.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.…
Gilt Groupe Is Talking IPO (GigaOm)…
Fondu Is Foursquare For Foodies (TechCrunch)…
Location-Based Revenues in Europe Will Double by 2016 (GoMo News)…
Street Fight Daily: 11.22.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups... 102,000 Cupcakes! Small Bakery Burned by Groupon (MSNBC)…
Knight-Backed Local News Site ‘Brooklyn Bureau’ Launches (PaidContent)…
Google backtracks a bit on charging for its Maps API (Nieman Lab)…
DNAinfo Expands — As Does NYC’s Rep as Hyperlocal Incubator
With its expansion, DNAinfo joins a new class of hyperlocal companies — led by tech startups like Foursquare — that were spawned in New York City and now are in the process of scaling their products into other markets. New York (and Manhattan in particular) has become a hotbed of hyperlocal activity in recent years…
Street Fight Daily: 11.16.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Foursquare’s Website Just Got a Lot More Useful (ReadWriteWeb)…
Despite Groupon’s Big IPO Pop, Most Flippers Lost Money (Business Insider)…
Street Fight Daily: 11.14.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
25% of American Adults Use Location-Based Services (ReadWriteWeb)… Journal Register’s John Paton: Newspapers’ Digital Apostle (New York Times)…
Oink: A Help to Yelp?
With Oink (“Rate the Adventure”), Digg founder Kevin Rose has chosen to address a glaring problem in the existing world of online (and offline ratings). Namely, what do I buy when I’m there? Or what do I do? Or what should I try? The idea is, with this nifty mobile app, Oink users can give a thumbs up or a thumbs down to anything at all.
Case Study: DFW Airport Uses LBS Offers to Spur Traveler Spending
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is a massive, luxurious airport that in some areas resembles an upscale mall. Many of the travelers who passed through, the airport found, were tech-savvy. 84% owned smartphones and 36% were checking in on location-based services while waiting to board their flights. So to connect these travelers to the stores near their […]
Case Study: Non-Profit Uses Foursquare For Fundraising
At BART stations in the Bay Area in 2010, commuters were encouraged to check-in on Foursquare to posters placed by Earthjustice, a non-profit focused on environmental awareness, as part of an effort to gain traction in the tech community. They hit 6,000 in just a few months’ time and earned media as well, in the New York Times, Mashable and elsewhere. Senior marketing manager Ray Wan discusses the organization’s strategy.
Street Fight Daily: 11.07.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups…
Combined Urban Airship + Simple Geo Take $15 Million in Funding (Uncrunched)
It looks like Simple Geo may have made a solid bet after all. Last week the company was acquired by Urban Airship in an all stock transaction that was actually part of a much larger financing: Urban Airship’s Series C round of funding…
Kevin Rose’s Oink: Stop Rating Places – Rate the Stuff Inside Them Instead (SiliconFilter)
The big difference between Oink and Foursquare or Yelp is that Oink doesn’t focus on places so much as on the things inside them. Instead of rating a local restaurant, for example, you would rate the pizza you had there…
The Capitulation of a Social-Mobile High-Flyer
Two years ago it would have been hard to imagine Gowalla selling for anything less than a pretty penny. But a couple things have happened since then to devalue mobile apps. First, the location-based gamification juggernaut has not developed as quickly as some had predicted. Second, the competition for mindshare on handsets has magnified as many more eye-popping apps vie for attention. It’s a real street fight out there in the land of mobile apps and we will likely see more casualties, even among worthy players like Gowalla.