Posts Tagged ‘Location’

Colombia is the latest addition to YouTube’s list of locations, bringing YouTube to a total of 37 localized countries around the world, from Algeria to Yemen.

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Pew Internet released summary information from a survey that tells us how adults in the U.S. use mobile and social location based services. The highlighted statistic, however, literally only tells part of the more complex story.

When planning an online or mobile business, founders and co-founders must begin discussing ‘location’ as soon as possible. By location, I particularly refer to the launch and base location(s) of your online or mobile business. The following are four pointers I suggest you to consider in your startup location discussion: Firstly, is where you live [...]

I usually leave Location Services on my iPhone and iPad turned on. However, I must have turned it off on the iPad for some kind of test and neglected to turn it back on before trying to copy a screenshot to Dropbox for later use. You can see the warning I received from Dropbox that: [...]

FourSquare is on a roll, extending new iPhone tools to the Berry platform. What comes next?

Does FourSquare need to be more than fun? Here are seven ways the company can solve its identity crisis.

This morning Google officially announced their Google Places application for iPhone and after playing with it for a bit, it appears as though the company just stole Yelp’s business, something that’s much cheaper than acquiring them.

The social location Website and application Gowalla just released the Highlights feature, which lets you label places according to categories like “Date Night” and “Guilty Pleasure.” The feature is supposed to reveal both more about different places and your own personality. There are currently 18 Highlights categories, which Gowalla describes as “little rewards you can [...]

Facebook has been actively testing multiple location products and considering various implementations of some form of location feature, however Twitter has announced their official plans for location. While the implementation of Twitter’s new location feature isn’t exactly surprising, it highlights the company’s ability to push out product iterations quickly, something that Facebook has often touted [...]

Dennis Crowley, the CEO and Co-Founder of Foursquare, announced at Techcrunch Disrupt today that the company had 700,000 checkins last Friday. It was a new milestone for the company, and the volume appears to be increasing every day. While the number of users is unknown for that day, it was contrasted next to Chris Cox [...]