Posted in Social Media, Social Network on Jun 21st, 2011
Foursquare has just announced on their blog that they have reached 10 million users, thus being the first location-based social network to do so.
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 Marketing & Communication, Social Media on Mar 8th, 2011
According to the Wall Street Journal, Foursquare has partnered with American Express to offer discounts for shoppers who use Foursquare. For American Express cardholders, it is an expansion of their credit card service and a way to engage their customers. Vice Chairman for AmEx told Wall Street Journal that they want to go where the [...]
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, Marketing & Communication on Nov 5th, 2010
Written by Tehneyat who currently resides in London, United Kingdom from where she is blogging for Mindjumpers. You can follow Tehneyat on Twitter @tehneyat. Two days ago, Facebook announced how they are going to use Facebook as a platform for communication between users and franchises. Facebook is offering people deals from different places they check [...]
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 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 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 [...]
