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Because in order to tell all their friends where they are, they have to check-in through several services at once (because, for now, the services are walled-gardens). And because, for now, the location-based game is still a two-horse race (won't be for long), this is a royal pain in the neck. So, enter check.in , a universal check-in service that allows you to check in using Foursquare, Gowalla, and other services all at once. (MG Siegler describes in detail how the service works here ).
Universal Check-In Service Check.In Threatens To Turn Foursquare
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat.
Facebook Confirms Its Location Product
Last month, Erick wrote a post calling for the creation of an open database of places . As location-based services continue to gain popularity, each of them is building up these massive databases of places themselves, and this is going to become an issue as services like Twitter and potentially Facebook attempt to federate all this data. And Erick is hardly alone in thinking about this — nearly all the companies involved in the space talk about such an idea enthusiastically, and regularly. Yet no one seems to be doing much about it just yet. Back in March, I moderated a panel featuring key members of Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Twitter, and Plancast. When I raised the idea of a unified place database, all seemed to be in agreement that it would be a good thing.
The Unified Database Of Places Is Coming Soon. Or Maybe Never.
HP Gloe is a geo-tagging experiment from HP Labs that maps Web content to specific geographic locations. Gloe aims to provide a platform for location-based discovery of information for mobile Web users, a rapidly growing audience.
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Google Latitude now tracks your location history | News | TechRa
In what initially sounds like some nightmarish 'big brother' style innovation, Google has launched Location History for Google Latitude so you can track where you and your Latitude friends have been. Of course, you can change your settings on your phone so that Google (and your friends) don't necessarily have the option to track your movements, if you so want to. Forgot where you've been?