While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn’t sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they’ve also apparently set up a sub-site totally around location for SXSW. But here’s the [...]
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Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sampling (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly, Twitter). So, how are you going to wrap [...]
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Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac, he hasn’t given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn’t been updated since late November, a new build is due shortly with one big addition: native Foursquare support.
What this means is that anytime someone in your [...]
Tags: Annoyance, Anticipation, Email, Free Upgrade, Google, Google Map, Iphone, Late November, Loren Brichter, Mac, New Features, Phone Number, Private Beta, Public Beta, Tweet, Twitter, Venue, Video Uploads, What This Means
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Tue, March 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time.
While Twitter’s geolocation feature has been live through its API since last November, there was no [...]
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Tue, March 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments