Posted in Social Network on Nov 25th, 2010
Gowalla is a virtual geocaching game that you can use on your iPhone, Android, Palm OS and some Blackberry mobile devices. The game works utilizing the GPS chip in the phone, so you are able to check in at places or spots around the world – like with Foursquare. However, with Gowalla you’re given your [...]
Posted in Social Media on Sep 13th, 2010
The new smartphone application called Glympse is absolutely brilliant. Where Foursquare allows your friends to see where you are, Glympse allows your friends to see where you are heading. It combines everything that has previously annoyed me about other location services such as Google Latitude. The problem with Google Latitude was the fact that you [...]
Posted in Facebook, Social Network on Aug 30th, 2010
Are you wondering what all the talk with Facebook Places is about? Here’s an explanation by the people at Facebook. According to Facebook, Places is basically about knowing where you friends hang out. From our profiles on Facebook, we all know and share all other sorts of things about each other. But a fundamental thing [...]
Posted in Facebook on Aug 19th, 2010
Geolocation has been buzzing for some time now – especially with the location based services Foursquare and Gowalla. Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users [...]
Posted in Marketing & Communication, Social Media on Aug 17th, 2010
Location-based services have for some time been announced as the new dominating technology, being the next big thing after Twitter. And the rumours of Facebook rolling out a location feature one of the next days is sizzling. I will look futher into that… Its hype among social media users is one thing, but for marketers [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Jul 22nd, 2010
On Friday, I am going to visit the SF New Tech – the Big Endless Summer Social event in Los Altos Hills, located in the San Francisco. About SF New Tech SF New Tech is the largest and longest running monthly technology event in San Francisco. Since forming in March 2006 more than 5,000 people [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Jul 21st, 2010
Yesterday, the location-based network Foursquare hit the 100 million checkin threshold. The news of the great milestone was tweeted by Foursquare’s head of business development, Tristan Walker. The NYC-based startup is only about 1 1/2 year old and has been experiencing immense growth, especially since it was announced as the new dominating technology earlier this [...]
Posted in Facebook, Tech Development on May 7th, 2010
For some time, the rumour has been that Facebook will soon launch a geolocation to their service. According to Mashable and Advertising Age, the location service can be rolled out any day now. It was expected that Facebook would present it at the F8 Developers Conference, where they against odds only spoke of the social [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development, Tips on Apr 12th, 2010
Here is a follow up on some of my previous writing about geolocation. It seems to be the great talk of the – at least in the social media sphere. During the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference last month, location based services was announced to become the new dominating technology in 2010. SXSW is a [...]
Posted in Marketing & Communication, Social Network, Tech Development on Mar 15th, 2010
More and more online services add the feature of geotagging what you post on the web. Geotagging means that your physical location is registered from your mobile GPS tool or your computer’s IP address. This means that if you upload a photo to Flickr, the location from when the photo was taking is registered and [...]
