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 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 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 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 [...]
