Tag: "foursquare"

Apple Building a Mobile Social Network?

Apple Building a Mobile Social Network?

The latest, greatest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, apparently has a hidden easter egg, a new “find my friends” feature, MacRumors has discovered. It seems most likely that Apple is building a geo location-based social network to compete with Foursquare, GoWalla, Google’s Latitude, Facebook Places and the million other startups in the mobile, local, [...]

Six Social Media Trends for 2011

Six Social Media Trends for 2011

David Armano has written an interesting piece on social media trends of 2011 for the Haarrrrvard Business Journal which is worth taking a look at. He talks about how the mobile and tablet wars will be heating up. He discusses how Facebook is going to take the location-based world by storm. Armano also talks about [...]

Hey Foursquare….Kill The Point System!

Hey Foursquare….Kill The Point System!

Happy Foursquare Day – and in the words of one of my clients that is new to Twitter… what the f#@k is Foursquare? Since he is still trying to wrap his head around Twitter I left the explanation at this “ Foursquare is a location based social media platform that is great for service based [...]

The Cheating Hipster (note the fancy moustache)

Cheating at foursquare

That’s right. Some people cheat at foursquare.

I Want To Play “SimYou”

I Want To Play “SimYou”

Remember “The Sims” – the game where you got to watch someone live out his/her life. With social media, we can all be Sims.

Can I Add My Couch as a Location on Foursquare?

Can I Add My Couch as a Location on Foursquare?

Ok so hear me out….last week our new couch was delivered for the upstairs playroom.  This is no ordinary couch, this is a king size relaxation station. I’m serious. I am an extremely active individual. I work out 6 days a week and am always on the go. That being said, since the couch arrived, [...]

Mark Zuckerberg is at the keg in the backyard!

Facebook Wants to be like Foursquare and Gowalla

Facebook, the ever wanna-be, “me-too” company, has decided that they too would like to be like Foursquare… decides to add location updating.

Foursquare Introduces Business Analytics

Foursquare Introduces Business Analytics

Foursquare plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about their business visitors.

Please Rob Me – Location Based Social Networking Burglary

Please Rob Me – Location Based Social Networking Burglary

I used Foursquare less than 20 times before the kind folks at forthehack who created Please Rob Me helped me see the potential danger of not only stalkers (you know who you are) but the new breed of tech savvy burglar who are using Location-based social networking. Social sites like Localtweeps make it easy for [...]

Now We Need to be Afraid to Use Geolocation Services????

Now We Need to be Afraid to Use Geolocation Services????

I went out on Saturday night, seriously…way out, in fact I’m still feeling it today. If you follow me on Twitter you might know this because I checked in on Foursquare repeatedly and sent the notification to Twitter. I do this for two reasons; one, to support local business by letting others know where I [...]

8 Things Stalkers, Burglars and Psycho Ex’s Love about Social Media

8 Things Stalkers, Burglars and Psycho Ex’s Love about Social Media

Back in the old days of stalking and burglary, criminals had to stake out people and locations to find out optimal times to be criminalish. Social Media has made it easy.