Foursquare Cleans Up Profile Pages, Hints At Key New Metrics? In the battle of Foursquare versus Gowalla in the location space, Gowalla is often thought of as “the pretty one.” But Foursquare has been attempting to improve their look and feel recently with a number of changes. The latest comes today with new profile pages. As you can see, the new user pages have a much cleaner design. Just as with the recently redesigned venue pages, Tips are now more clearly labeled and To-Dos are explained better. It seems clear that Foursquare is trying to move the service beyond the check-in and attempting to provide more utility to users with their other features. Badges and mayorships are also now look much nicer in the sidebar. And the key stats: Days Out, Check-Ins, and Things Done have been moved into a profile card that’s front and center. Previously, profiles showed “Total Nights Out”, “Total Checkins”, “To-Dos Now Done”, and “Total Things Done.”
The “Things Done” aspect is particularly intersting. Below, find the new Foursquare profile. Foursquare wants to be “the new age experience provider” for brands. Foursquare‘s head of business development, Tristan Walker, in a panel today at TechCrunch‘s Crunchup conference said that Foursquare focuses on three levels of deals: mom and pop corner stores, retail chains and brands. Regarding brands, Walker said that Foursquare wants to be brands’ “new age experience provider.” Walker said that Foursquare’s business development team receives between 500-1,000 emails per day of new incoming inquiry, and Walker and his team of five tries his best to respond to all of them. we do charge for sponsored badge promotion “The check-in enables a lot of everything that happens on the platform.
We hope to build the best social expierence for users and merchants.” “Nobody’s really been able to offer this kind of deals at the retail deals at scale,” he said. “Heatpocalypse” was a recent location that Foursquare created for the heat wave in New York City, and thousands of people checked into the “location”. The Amazing Race: Watch Episodes and Video and Join the Ultimate. Available Full Episodes: 2 Free 295 with CBS All Access Full Episodes Season 26Season 25Season 24Season 23Season 22Season 21Season 20Season 19Season 18Season 17Season 16Season 15Season 14Season 13Season 12Season 11Season 10Season 9Season 8Season 7Season 6Season 5Season 4Season 3Season 2Season 1.
Pegshot: Austin Roadtrip!! Follow h... Send Destinations via Google Maps to Ford and GM Vehicles. Google's "Send-To-Car" feature lets users send destinations from Google Maps directly to their vehicles. This feature previously worked with BMW and Audi vehicles, and now Google has extended its partner base for the program to Ford and GM. Owners of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles enabled with Ford's SYNC system, as well as Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac, Saab or Saturn vehicles via GM's OnStar navigation, can now take advantage of the "Send-to-Car" function.
To try it out, type in a destination into Google Maps search, click "Send," choose "Car" and then type in your car's details. You can then access the destination through your car's navigation system. Check out a video preview of the feature coupled with GM's OnStar below. [img credit: Ford] Sym4Square - Symbian S60 V5 App for FourSquare 360 Panorama brings real-time panoramic photography to the iPhone. Occipital, the people who brought you RedLaser, have just changed iPhone photography in a big way. With the announcement of 360 Panoramic, the company has brought real-time panoramic photography to the iPhone. Now you’ll need an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4, running iOS, in order to use it, but the results are pretty stellar: So that’s the gist.
You simply tap the screen to start and then turn a slow circle for 20 seconds. As you do, the phone will put your panorama together in real time, using literally every single frame. You’ll notice, also, that an iPhone 4 isn’t required. After your image is completed, which literally happens as soon as you’re done with your circle, all you have to do is tap the screen again to have the image saved to the camera roll. You can pick up 360 Panorama from the App Store, as of today, for $2.99. The Amazing Race. The current logo of the U.S. version of the show, introduced in its 23rd season. The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams.
Contestants strive to arrive first at "Pit Stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg. Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including airplanes, hot air balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, cars, jeepneys, trains, buses, boats, and by foot. Clues provided in each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task, either together or by a single member. These challenges are related in some manner to the country wherein they are located or its culture.
The Race[edit] Teams[edit] Money[edit] Apple acquires Poly9. Apple Earth coming soon? In a huge announcement detailed on AppleInsider, we’ve just found out that Apple has acquired mapping company Poly9. Poly9 has done some amazing work with mapping, including the Poly9 Globe project, which is quite akin to Google Earth, but weighs in at only 303kb and can run in any platform. With this acquisition, it raises the question of whether Apple is planning to aim head-on at Google’s mapping and earth projects. It would certainly seem so, given Apple’s other acquisition of Placebase last year. There are no hard details about the amount of money involved, or any exact timing of the acquisition.
For now, all we have is a “recently”, as Poly9 employees have been told to not discuss the deal. While the grumbling has continued about a dedicated mapping application for Apple devices, it appears that perhaps Apple is answering those concerns. We’ve reached out to both Poly9 and Apple for comment, and will let you know if we get a response. Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story. Quantum memory may topple Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. A quantum memory may be all scientists need to beat the limit of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, according to a paper published in Nature Physics. According to a group of researchers, maximally entangling a particle with a quantum memory and measuring one of the particle's variables, like its position, should snap the quantum memory in a corresponding state, which could then be measured.
This would allow them to do something long thought verboten by the laws of physics: figure out the state of certain pairs of variables at the exact same time with an unprecedented amount of certainty. Our ability to observe particles at the quantum level is currently limited by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The physical reasoning behind this is hard to follow. But Paul Dirac, another physicist, made up a scenario to illustrate why some variables have this contentious relationship.
Likewise, a measure of momentum would change the particle's position. Then along came entanglement. Loved the real-time tube map? There’s more like it on the way… Last month an (almost) real-time tube map got people talking when it launched as one of the first projects to use Transport for London’s API. It was an exciting example of what can happen when open data is set free to be used by developers in whatever ways their imagination takes them. The problem is that apart from Transport for London, there really isn’t any real-time data out there for people to use – yet.
A new initiative is looking to kickstart more realtime data projects around the UK. The Make It Local project from NESTA, launched today, is offering three local authorities up to £30,000 to work with local digital businesses to create “Innovative, web-based services for their communities”. The projects must result in a real-time web service that provides a need to local people. We can’t wait to see what is created.
Apple acquires online mapping company Poly9 - report. By Katie Marsal Apple has purchased a Web-based mapping company from Quebec, Canada, that creates interactive 3D software for use in a browser, according to a new report. French-Canadian news site cyberpresse.careported Wednesday (via Google Translate) that Poly9 has been purchased by Apple, and a majority of the company's employees were moved to California. Poly9's official website is no longer available. Among its products is Poly9 Globe, described as a "cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe which does not require any download.
" The total application, which includes high-resolution imagery for U.S. metropolitan areas, is just 303kb. The report claims that Poly9 was purchased "recently" by Apple, though official confirmation has not been given. Poly9 still has an office in Quebec, but the report said that it was closed a few weeks ago. If true, the purchase of Poly9 would be the second mapping related acquisition for Apple. THE WORLD IN A SHELL - The Polliniferoused Project. Techonomy » Conference 2010. Bibliotheken werken aan online nationale catalogus | nu.nl/internet. AMSTERDAM – De openbare bibliotheken, de universiteitsbibliotheken, de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en de Digitale bibliotheek der Nederlandse letteren gaan samen één grote online catalogus lanceren waarin mensen gemakkelijker en beter kunnen zoeken naar boeken.
Foto: Getty Images Deze Nationale Bibliotheekcatalogus (NBC) moet voor het einde van 2010 online komen. Woensdag werden handtekeningen gezet onder het contract voor het bouwen van de collectieve catalogus. Betere resultaten “Zoeken in bibliotheekcollecties wordt dan makkelijker en leuker dan ooit”, vertelt Bas Eenhoorn, voorzitter van stichting Bibliotheek.nl, de gezamelijke innovatieclub van de openbare bibliotheken in Nederland. “Iedere zoekopdracht gaat straks betere resultaten opleveren uit meer collecties.” Alleen al het samengaan van de catalogi van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en de 14 grootste openbare bibliotheken zorgt ervoor 80 procent van alle zoekopdrachten gehonoreerd kan worden. Belang Digitalisering. Apple purchased Google Maps competitor Placebase - report. By Sam Oliver This summer, Apple quietly purchased the worldwide mapping company Placebase — one that competed with Google's own Maps product, featured on the iPhone.
Reports of the purchase of Placebase, maker of Pushpin and openplaces.org, first surfaced in July. They were confirmed this week by ComputerWorld, as the company's former CEO, Jaron Waldman, is now allegedly part of the "Geo Team" at Apple. The Cupertino, Calif., company has never confirmed the acquisition. In 2008, Placebase was profiled by GigaOm. "Waldman thought differently," the report said. Weeks ago, when Google publicly revealed the content of its letter to the FCC in response to a government inquiry, it was discovered that Apple allegedly rejected the Google Latitude Application, because Apple believed the software could replicate the native Maps application included with the iPhone — software also created by Google.
In August, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stepped down from the Apple Board of Directors. The Audition - The Producers (1968) Geo-Loco; Where The Geo-Wonks Meet The Geo-Clueless And All Points Inbetween | Gary's Bloggage. Last week I was in San Francisco, ostensibly to meet with fellow Nokians in Mountain View and Palo Alto, the homes of Google and Stanford University respectively. But I was also there to take part in a panel on the topic of “is geo loco a business or a feature?”
At the Geo-Loco conference, chaired by geo-eminence grise Marc Prioleau. With the explosion of interest in all things geo recently (and for once I think the hyperbole is justified) and thus a large amount of new conferences on the topic, I was somewhat skeptical of how Geo-Loco would pan out. But the presence of Marc Prioleau and other geo-rati such as LikeList’s Tyler Bell, Urban Mapping’s Ian White, Tom Coates, the man behind Yahoo’s Fire Eagle and Waze’s Di-Ann Eisnor, to name but a few, swayed me to participate.
Proof that Geo-Loco was a fully fledged geoconference was evident in the Twitter back channel which was, by turns, witty, informed, damning, sarcastic, enlightening and downright funny. Oh dear. Nederlandse bibliotheken bouwen één online catalogus. Via Nationale Bibliotheekcatalogus worden collecties ook beter vindbaar in Google. Er komt één grote catalogus op internet waarin het bezit te vinden is van alle publieke bibliotheken in Nederland: de openbare bibliotheken, de universiteitsbibliotheken, de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en de Digitale bibliotheek der Nederlandse letteren. Deze Nationale Bibliotheekcatalogus (NBC) moet vóór het einde van het jaar online komen. De software voor de catalogus wordt gebouwd door OCLC.
Vandaag worden in Den Haag de handtekeningen gezet onder het contract voor het bouwen van deze collectieve catalogus. "Zoeken in bibliotheekcollecties wordt makkelijker en leuker dan ooit", zegt Bas Eenhoorn, voorzitter van de stichting Bibliotheek.nl, de gezamenlijke innovatieclub van de openbare bibliotheken in Nederland. Via de Nationale Bibliotheekcatalogus zullen de collecties ook beter vindbaar worden in Google. Veel afzonderlijke instellingen hebben hun eigen catalogus al via het internet beschikbaar gemaakt. Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera Goes Multi-Platform. Adds API And Social Gaming. Tokyo-based Tonchidot has come a long way since the spectacular launch of its augmented reality app Sekai Camera at TechCrunch50 back in 2008. We’ve spent quite a few articles on how the startup did since then, and the bottom line is that it did very well so far. Tonchidot is now offering up a lot more versions and features for its app (available for free on the iPhone with iOS4 support, iPad, and Android).
Here’s a quick rundown of what happened in the past few months and what more we can expect from Sekai Camera in the future. To recap, Sekai Camera makes it possible to create text messages, photos, and audio recordings (dubbed air tags) and “drop” them on the spot in the form of floating bubbles and icons. Other users in the vicinity who open the app and spin the camera around can then click on and interact with those geo-tagged virtual Post-It notes. Sekai Camera is essentially a flashy-looking, location-based, augmented reality-powered social network.
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