As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic upgrades. But a new, subtle update [...]
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Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It’s hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. One of them peeked out a bit early: Foursquare.
Earlier today, the latest version of Foursquare, 1.6, went live in the App Store for a brief [...]
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Sun, March 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The idea was a way to show people the best food in Japan beyond sushi — to literally show them, in picture form. Then the thought morphed into writing to a book, where the best food in the world was shown. But that’s a lot of travel for one person. So the thought became, why [...]
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Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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