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Miso Gets Big Brand Love. Check-In To The Hot Tub Time Machine

For the past few years, being the “Twitter for FILL-IN-THE-BLANK” has been a popular trend among startups. Now, we’re starting to see a shift. Several new startups are launching as the “Foursquare for FILL-IN-THE-BLANK.” And big brands are actually starting to take notice.
Miso is an iPhone app that incorporates the “check-in” idea with watching movies [...]

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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I’m Rooting For An All-Out Location War.

I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to listen to. Did AT&T fail? No. Actually, they did [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Pixelpipe Gets Into The Location Game With Foursquare Integration

Pixelpipe, the service that lets you syndicate text, audio, video and image files to 120 different social networks, blogs and sites, is adding geolocation functionality to its site with a Foursquare integration. The true virtue of Pixelpipe’s service is the fact that it lets you publish all types of files to various social networks and [...]

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Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Hot Potato Tosses A New Site, API, And iPhone App With Foursquare Integration At You

Back in November of last year, the location-based social event service Hot Potato launched at our Realtime CrunchUp. Today, they’ve taken what was a solid service, and made it a lot better with a number of upgrades.
First and foremost, there is a new iPhone application that just went live in the App Store. With a [...]

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Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

First Round Capital Gives Entrepreneurs A Way To Get In On The Portfolio Action

In case it wasn’t obvious, being an entrepreneur is risky business. Even those that get investments have a relatively small likelihood of a successful exit. So early-stage investment firm First Round Capital has a plan to alleviate some of the risk: an entrepreneur’s exchange fund.
For those not aware, an exchange fund in this regard is [...]

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Fri, January 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments