Posted in Social Media on May 20th, 2011
About a year ago location based services (LBS) such as Foursquare, Gowalla was announced as the new big thing in digital and social media. Facebook has of course been good at picking up on media trends as they launch their own LBS service in Facebook Places in August 2010. Now approaching a year after the [...]
Posted in Social Media on Mar 1st, 2011
All eyes on future development of success stories for application development lies within a triangle – the touch points of Social – Mobile – Game Design.
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 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 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 [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Nov 16th, 2009
Written by Tehneyat Waseem Two location-based iPhone applications were launched earlier this year. Foursquare, recently launched on the Danish market, is an application that allows you to ‘check-in’ and notify your friends where you are and this allows you to earn points/pins, eventually leading you to getting a badge or becoming a ‘mayor’ of [...]
