Foursquare Company Profile Foursquare is a free mobile app that helps users keep up and meet up with friends. Since 2009, more than 45 million people have joined Foursquare, checking in around the world over 5 billion times. Those check-ins power the Foursquare Explore search engine, which provides personalized recommendations of the best places nearby. In addition, more than 1.6 million businesses from large brands to small merchants have used its advertising and merchant tools to attract and maintain customers. More than 50,000 developers use the Foursquare API to add location to their apps. Foursquare was founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in New York City and has offices in San Francisco and London.
Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current events. So, you may ask, why was this morning’s top story, a spot usually given to the most important foreign or domestic news of the day, headlined “Miley Cyrus Did What???” and accompanied by the subhead “Twerks, stuns at VMAs”? It’s a good question. And the answer is pretty simple. There was nothing, and I mean nothing, about that story that related to the important news of the day, the chronicling of significant human events, or the idea that journalism itself can be a force for positive change in the world. But boy oh boy did it get us some web traffic. Side note: Advertisers, along with you idiots, love videos. I don’t hesitate to call it stupid bullshit because we all know it’s stupid bullshit.
5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter, and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media. While last year’s SXSW seemed to serve as the "coming out" party for location-based services (LBS), maybe this year’s conference signifies the migration of these platforms into mainstream culture. And perhaps the only real “new” concept to emerge this year is the idea that there is finally a real opportunity to make money via "location." Here are five things that companies should consider as they look to utilize location-based services (LBS) as part their mobile strategy. 1. From finding the nearest ski slope on REI’s Ski and Snow Report to a nearby movie on Flixter, there are plenty of Top iPhone applications that have incorporated a “lead with the offer, not the capability” philosophy into their mobile product offering to provide a better service. 2. 3. 4. 5. Conclusion
Foursquare Hasn’t Started Playing The Monetization Game Just Yet There’s some hoopla today that the location-based social network Foursquare has found its business model (and as such, has beaten the more mature Twitter to one). But hold your horses. While Foursquare does have an idea for how to eventually make money (as we’ve discussed in the past), they aren’t actually focusing on making any just yet, co-founder Dennis Crowley confirmed to us today. While there is a Foursquare For Business section on the site now, there is no monetization plan for any of these deals yet. “[We're] really just focusing on getting the product working properly (crashes / UX etc). [It's] worth noting that we don’t want to shoehorn biz stuff in at the last min, which is why we’re trying to get local merchants involved now. That being said, obviously, Foursquare eventually hopes these types of deals (dubbed “Mayor Deals”) become a business of some kind. Crowley also says that they’ve been adding a good number of these specials recently. There’s also the issue of price.
Digital billboards ... big, bright, bold - and banned Flashing and moving "digital billboards" in Brisbane - virtually large-scale television sets - will be banned on Tuesday by the Brisbane City Council. The council says large moving images on roadsides are a potential distraction to motorists and can cause traffic accidents by drawing drivers' eyes from the road. The ban will not apply to warning signs at roadworks. Neighbourhood Planning committee chair Cr Amanda Cooper said the problems were obvious and planning laws need to change. Advertisement “This poses potential issues on our roads as traditional billboards are replaced by high-tech digital signs that are basically de facto television sets," Cr Cooper said. "These changes put the safety of motorists and pedestrians first." Changes to the council's flashing signs bylaws will however allow smaller flashing signs for shopkeepers wanting to attract customers to their shops, Cr Cooper said. “We're now removing that burden to help them attract more customers."
Location Based Social Networks Links - BDNooZ So here is the list I compiled while looking for Location Based Social Networking sites. On Dec 2010 I started to add also Location Based Social Apps and Games. Please note it is not my intention to recommend or endorse any of them, and they are presented in alphabetical order. I encourage you to leave comments about your experience with any of them. Visit also the Location Based Social Networking list on Georillas FACEBOOK Page If you find any LBSN missing on the list, just post a comment at the end of the page. Check how to incorporate many of this Location Based Social Networks into a Location Based Marketing Strategy with georillas.com There are hundreds of location based social networks, location based services and location based advertising solutions. Aka-Aki Location Based Social Network Ask around URL: Excerpt from the website : Ask Around lets you view, join and share the real-time conversations happening nearby. Askalo USA Badoo URL: Coloci
It’s 4SQ Day, But Foursquare Has (Almost) Nothing To Do With It It’s the day after tax filings are due, and that means one thing: 4SQ Day! Actually, the timing of 4SQ Day has nothing to do with a post-tax-filing celebration. The date (4/16) is four squared. Swarms of Foursquare users are planning to meet in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, and even London. About 150 businesses and counting across the country and a few in Europe are celebrating by giving Foursquare users special one-day deals and there is even a new badge. Even McDonald’s is getting involved. Sounds like another quirky marketing stunt by Foursquare, the geo-social startup that gives you points and prestige (okay, badges) to check in everywhere.
The Phone Arts Collective Makes Art On The Go Image by Barnie Page. PhoneArts.Net is an online collaborator network of likeminded creators who use mobile apps to update the way we see sketchbook culture. Two years in and nearly 300,000 Tumblr followers later, Phone Arts are staking their internet claim as an international visual punk supergroup that hangs out on their cell phones—no matter what their detractors may say. Born out of a desire to kill some time, founders Guillaume Hugon and Daniel Littlewood were swiftly joined by contributors Barnie Page, Michael Manning, Brian Metcalf, Bonjour Jean-Jacques, Antoine Aillot, Marcel Kaczmarek, Jeremiah Johnson and Mo Marie—all well-regarded internet artists in their own right. Image by Thomas Pregiato. Unlike the attitude they may hold in regards to some of their other work, the core members are refreshingly laid back about the work they produce for Phone Arts and the instruments they use—and that mentality is of course the very reason they use these particular tools in the first place.
Geosocial networking An infographic illustrating and comparing the popularity of different geosocial networking services in August 2010 History[edit] The evolution of geosocial can be traced back to the implication of social application programming interfaces by internet-based corporations in the early 2000s. EBay uses one of the oldest, announcing its social API at the end of 2000 and allowing free access to over 21,000 developers in late 2005.[3][4] Amazon's primary API was released in 2002, which allowed developers to pull consumer information like product reviews into third-party applications.[5] Google, Inc. began testing an API in April 2002 and currently owns dozens that are used by thousands of applications.[3] The Facebook Developer's API is considered the first to be specific to a social network and was launched in 2006. Uses[edit] Geosocial networking allows users to interact relative to their current locations. The technology has obvious implications for event planning and coordination.
The Facebook-Foursquare Rumors And Everything Else You Want To K Leiden Anthropology Blog - Articles - Exposing the interface: the critical future of (cyborg) anthropology By Ebayink Should ditigal research by anthropologists, or cyborg anthropology, be made available as a corporate market research technique? Or should it make explicit how our “predictions” for the future normalize political and corporate interests? “Wear these glasses. This is the Future” On February 21, 2013, the front pageof the Dutch newspaper NRC-Next carried a picture of a woman wearing an odd-looking pair of glasses. The author of the article writes that “a beautiful Google commercial” convinced him that this gadget is “almost without doubt” going to influence “our lives drastically.” The author sees the Google glasses as the prefiguration of an ever-increasing blurring of the lines between technological and human perception, communication and control. Not only journalists, but also anthropologists interested in “digital culture” are increasingly invited to spice up their social-scientific narrative with corporate lingo and futuristic prediction.
Foursquare Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Foursquare è una rete sociale basata sulla geolocalizzazione disponibile tramite web e applicazioni per dispositivi mobili. A fine 2009 Foursquare raggiunge 100.000 utenti. Nell'agosto del 2010 i responsabili del social network comunicano di aver raggiunto i 5 milioni di utenti registrati.[1] Il 1º settembre 2010 l'azienda ha vinto il premio Technology Pioneer al World Economic Forum. Il 20 giugno 2011 raggiunge i 10 milioni di membri, notevole crescita rispetto ai 6 milioni di inizio anno, con una crescita del 67%.[2] Nell'aprile 2012 l'azienda comunica di aver raggiunto i 20 milioni di utenti registrati, di aver superato i 2 miliardi di check-in, e di aver assistito più di 750.000 commercianti con la propria piattaforma.[3] Nel gennaio 2013 Foursquare ha comunicato di aver raggiunto i 30 milioni di utenti registrati e 3 miliardi di "check-in".[4] Funzionamento[modifica | modifica sorgente] Foursquare 2.0[modifica | modifica sorgente]
Whitespace: Wearable computers - the fifth screen has arrived Issue 84: April 2012 Screens have dominated our lives for nearly 60 years. First there was the TV, then came the second screen in our lives, the PC. Ubiquitous internet access brought the smartphone's third screen and tablet computer's fourth screen to life. Emerging examples of wearable computers, or wearables, include smartwatches, a smartphone that you wear, computer screen glasses that place information before the user's eyes and even smart tattoos, a more bizarre but apparently achievable IT concept. Where are wearables now? Expect smartwatches to be big news in the next few months. The ultimate driver of smartwatch use will be "micro-apps" that fulfil clever stand-alone functions. A whole new look for spectacles In a sighting that's excited a lot of futurists, Google co-founder Sergey Brin was last month seen wearing a set of goggles with a tiny in-built projector capable of turning the inside of what looks like a pair of glasses into a computer screen. Augmenting life as we know it