If Grindr can’t help you meet Mr. Right, it can at least introduce you to Mr. Right Here. Since its launch in 2009, the location-based social application just for men has reached 3.5 million users in 192 countries. Who’s on Grindr and where are they located? The company recently surveyed 22,000 of its members to find out.
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Most location-based sharing apps center the sharing activity around the idea of checking in at a location. Trover takes a different approach by focusing sharing on pictures. Previously only available for the iPhone, the free Trover app is now available for Android.
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Since its beginning Gowalla has been locked in a battle with Foursquare for the check-in app market. To their credit, Gowalla is working hard to differentiate itself from Foursquare and their latest attempt at doing so is by focusing on being a location guide rather than a check-in app. You will still be able to check-in using Gowalla, but the changes in the app make it likely you will use it more to decide where you want to go before you actually arrive at a location to check-in.
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While the general public seems to have grasped the value of accessing Facebook and Twitter from smartphones, it appears most people do not see the value of check-in apps like Foursquare. According to GigaOm, Liz Claiborne recently commissioned a study to find out how customers use mobile commerce tools. Only 30 percent of those surveyed said they expect to use mobile check-in apps.
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While I can do a lot of things with my smartphone, its main purpose is to make me more productive, which it does by enabling me to access a wealth of information on the Internet. The problem is that I have to seek out that information by loading different apps like Twitter and Google Reader, rather than the phone just presenting relevant information. ReQall Rover is an Android app currently in private beta that collects information from a variety of sources and can present it to you using text-to-speech.
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Social networking giant Facebook just announced an expansion of Places, its location-based networking feature, but perhaps it should have “checked-in” with Main Street first.
