Tag: "gowalla"

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, [...]

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.

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 [...]