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Monday Morning Reads: Mobile Apps; LoTR Revisited; Funky SEO

Dave Fleet

Lots of really interesting reads in the Monday morning reading hopper this week: a look at why dictatorships would be unwise to cut Internet access; several pieces on the latest in mobile applications; a new take on the Lord of the Rings and a couple of neat videos. Mashable: 10 Fascinating YouTube Facts That May Surprise You.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. When to go to the application on your mobile, you open Facebook Places and according to where you are, the application will show a list of places near you. How does Places work?

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. When to go to the application on your mobile, you open Facebook Places and according to where you are, the application will show a list of places near you. How does Places work?

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OliveWoo – The First Location-based Date Service

Mindjumpers

It’s the first location based application for couples that analyzes your interests and mood to find the perfect date idea for you and your significant other. Similar Posts: Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins Facebook Introduces Geolocation Foursquare: How Does It Work?

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Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh'My

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh’My I’ve become obsessed with location based applications for my iPhone. Yelp was my first introduction to using an application to share my whereabouts with my friends. More up to par with foursquare and Gowalla.

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Realtime Olympics: 60% of London 2012 Visits Came Via Mobile; Facebook Was 2nd Highest Traffic Source

The Realtime Report

The Games organizers also used a remarkable array of platforms, strategies and applications to drive fan engagement around the games. million social media followers across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Foursquare. Social media played an enormous role in driving traffic and engagement: 66% of web traffic (to London2012.com)

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Bailout Application

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Bailout Application I could use some of that federal bail out money just about now. or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] How do you apply? Use get_bookmarks() instead.