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DEMO: Footfeed aims to soothe consumers’ check-in fatigue. Footfeed is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective. Location-based check-in services like Foursquare are increasingly becoming a problem for both users and businesses. Users are now facing multiple services to check in with, and businesses need an easy way to integrate multiple services into their products. Los Angeles, Calif. The company says it has built an advanced location-mapping system that can send locations to multiple check-in services with a single user ID. Check.in, another multiple check-in service, is Footfeed’s only major competitor thus far.

The company has seen over 2,000 users sign up for its service after it began beta testing in June, and those users collectively check in an average of 1,200 times a day. Footfeed is bootstrapped by its founders, and remains entirely self-funded so far. Expand your social footprint. Footfeed Jumps into the Check-in Aggregation Game. With a number of location-based social networking applications currently available, and no clear winner as of yet, a micro-industry for universal check-in applications has sprung up, with several mobile apps available for the early adopter set. We've looked at a couple of these in the past, including the mobile Web application developed by the Brighkite team, Check.in, and GeoLorean, a check-in aggregator that features Check.in's functionality. Today, we're experimenting with a third: the oddly named, but feature-rich "Footfeed.

" About Footfeed Footfeed is a universal check-in application for the iPhone (OS 3.1.3 or greater). In theory, the app lets you check in to multiple services at the same time. Too Bad It's Buggy! Last night, for example, I checked into L.A. I also had issues with Facebook. Needless to say, I'm really confused. Features that Work According to Footfeed's "About Us" page, Twitter, Google Latitude and Whrrl check-ins will be supported soon. Footfeed for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Footfeed Introduces Feature Rich Multi Check-in App and White Label Check-in Platform -- SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14. SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Location-based check-in aggregator Footfeed announces the upcoming release of Footfeed 2.0, a feature-rich multi check-in platform that makes it easy to check-in to multiple networks with one click.

Footfeed, a new location-based check-in aggregator, today announced the upcoming release of Footfeed 2.0, a multi check-in platform and mobile app for iPhone and Android. The re-designed application will make it even easier to check-in to multiple networks simultaneously including Brightkite, Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook, Google Latitude and Twitter. The upcoming release includes dozens of new features such as Facebook Places, Google Latitude, aggregated check-in deals and rewards from all the major check-in networks, aggregated location comments and tips, a new crowd-sourced location matching system called "Select-and-Match", and a redesigned interface.

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