Mindjumpers

AUGUST 30, 2010

Part of the idea behind Facebook Places is the same as with other geolocation services like Gowalla and Foursquare: to create spontaneous meetings. I am not sure whether or not Facebook Places will eventually overrule other services like Foursquare and Gowalla or how powerful geolocation will be.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

In true Twitter fashion, it wasn’t “rolled out” per se, it just appeared as part of the API that third parties access. However, it’s important to recognize that 3 times more people use Facebook from a smart phone every month than use Twitter at all. Since then,023% of all Tweets include location data, according to Sysomos.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. I’ll write about that soon. Pretty neat theory to think about.

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