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Foursquare Goes Dark Too. Unintentionally.

Earlier we made fun of Bing for going “dark” today to save energy in a way that doesn’t at all save energy. But Foursquare has an actual way to do that: take down the entire service.
Yesterday, Foursquare had some downtime. That’s nothing new, startups have downtime all the time — see: Twitter, that was [...]

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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google: Flickr Can Keep Using Picnik. Yahoo: We Have No Comment.

Earlier today, in writing about Google buying the photo-editing service Picnik, we noted that the most interesting thing about the buy may be that Picnik is currently Flickr’s default photo editor. Upon hearing the news, we reached out to both Google and Yahoo (which owns Flickr) to see what it means for the future of [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

iPhone Still Dominates Foursquare Usage; Android, BlackBerry Up And Coming

Foursquare is growing fast. Real fast. Traffic may be up as much as threefold over the past two months. But how are people actually using it?
The main Foursquare account tweeted out stats today that give a nice breakdown of usage. It’s just over a seven day span, but given that the service is now finally [...]

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Fri, February 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments