Foursquare released real-time APIs (User push API and Venue push API) to give developers real-time access to a subset of Foursquare check-ins. This means that other apps can make use of Foursquare’s large user and venue information store (assuming the user opts-in).
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Soon it will not be enough to sit on your couch and happily fling your Angry Birds at evil green pigs or nasty monkeys. The new “Magic Places” feature ties physical locations in the real world to rewards in the game. It appears to be closer to geo-caching where you need to hunt for specific places to get rewarded than Foursquare where every and any location is a check-in opportunity.
Angry Birds to conjure some location Magic [Video] (Gigaom)
‘Angry Birds’ will bring ‘Magic Places’ to real world (MSNBC)
The geo-location Magic Places feature will be added to all current Angry Birds games through updates at some point in the future.
A NFC (Near Field Communicaitons) powered version of Magic was rolled out earlier this year in partnership with Nokia during its C7 smartphone launch. This earlier version of Magic was promixity based (near another C7 running Angry Birds Magic).
Angry Birds Magic hatches at WIMA (Nokia Conversations)
Ever wonder what an app named ‘Creepy’ might do? Pinpoint and share your location based on geographical data embedded in your pictures on sites like Flickr, Foursquare and Twitter – how creepy is that?
Just as quickly as Facebook waded into Google’s turf with the announcement of its new messaging service, Google shot back with “Hotpot,” a social recommendation tool. Will the fourth time be the charm for Google’s attempts at social networking?
Foursquare has announced today that it plans to provide real-time visualizations of the 2010 elections on November 2nd, using check-ins and geo-location data at the polling booths.
With all of the new ways to shop online cropping up over the past year or two, it can be difficult to sort through the best deals for your money. We take a look at all of the different types of social shopping available on and off the web, so you can become an e-commerce 3.0 expert.
The entire city of Toronto is invited to cast their vote for mayor on Foursquare today. The National Post – who partnered with Foursquare earlier this fall to promote the Toronto International Film Festival – will be conducting exit polls at all polling stations through Foursquare check-ins.
WeePlaces.com offers Foursquare and other geo-location users the ability to visualize their check-ins and see the locations they frequent most. The site has recently unveiled its latest project, Geoprofiles, which expands on this to create profiles for users based on their location-based data. Users can group their data into categories and connect with friends across the WeePlaces.com platform. We got a chance to speak with Eric Wu, founder of WeePlaces.com, about the company, the new Geoprofiles, and the future of the geo-location space. Read below the jump for the interview.
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While geo-location aka Location-Based Service (LBS) apps are a fairly new category in the mobile space, it’s already hard to keep track of the dozens available and still growing. Instead of looking at each an every mobile app which has some element of geo-data, we have a quick look in the post at some of the subcategories available, a few of which we’ve already covered at SocialTimes or in some cases our sister site AllFacebook.
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It might be Foursquare Day today, but it’s one of Foursquare’s location-sharing app’s competitors, Gowalla, who’ve announced a couple of new features for the iPhone edition of their mobile app. The first is location searching and the second is a location-filtered list of friends.
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