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March 10, 2011
I have written several times about Foursquare, Gowalla, and all this check in apps that are more like games and that I find myself using less and less. At the end of the day if I choose to communicate my position I would do it in two ways: Using Facebook places to let my friends […]
February 10, 2011
Content is still the king. In the past content was generated by a small elite of journalists, correspondents… big news agencies, or journalist with opinion and good writing. This has been changing. They are struggling to find their place now. Traditional media is married to a physical support (paper) which is expensive to produce and distribute, it is not […]
December 21, 2010
Foursquare has added two heavily requested features to its popular iPhone app that should make the service significantly more social: photos and comments. The new features let you attach photos to checkins, tips and venues, and add comments to the checkins of your friends. These social updates, released just in time for the holidays, will […]
November 15, 2010
I have written in the past about the fight of location based apps like foursquare, gowalla, tellmewhere, brightkite, Google etc… in several posts. Now, time has passed. I have tested everything it was new. At the beginning it was fun: having badges and mayors with Forusquare, leaving stuff and taking stuff with Gowalla… but with time […]
August 20, 2010
GrottoCenter is wiki-like website for cavers. The site allows cavers to share their knowledge and favourite caving locations with other cavers. GrottoCenter includes a Google Map that shows the locations of the submitted caves and the site’s members. Currently the map shows the location 0f over 12,000 caves and 361 grottoes. As well as displaying […]
August 19, 2010
Finally Facebook has partnered with Gowalla and Foursquare to create Facebook Places. They just updated the iPhone app but it is still not working. Nothing on the web yet. A lot of questions though: How are they going to use Places? How are they going the manage check-ins? They said they were partnering with Gowalla […]
May 30, 2010
Oh sure, Nikon’s got its own solution for adding native geotagging to your existing DSLR, but the GP-1 dongle definitely has its drawbacks. Aside from sucking down around 4x more power than Gisteq’s new PhotoTrackr Plus, it also eliminates the ability to use a dedicated flash in the hotshoe while capturing GPS data. Moreover, it has to warm […]
May 27, 2010
The current crop of location-based social networks mostly focus on getting users to check in and share tips about local venues like restaurants, stores and coffee shops. DeHood, which officiallylaunched earlier today, wants to bring a bit more value to its users by going beyond check-ins. The new location-based social network wants to bring a local […]
May 19, 2010
I have reviewed and written several times about location services, giving you my thoughts and preferences on mobile applications such as foursquare, gowalla, tellmewhere, latitude and others. Now I would like to try to predict what what it is going to happen to what I think is one of the key avenues for social real time media. […]