Foursquare Grew By 3400% last year they also signed up their 6,000,000th user. They also released this infographic to show their growth.
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Google have release an update to real-time serach, and it now has its own url – www.google.com/realtime. It allows you to search for particular topic, or [...]
I have seen a few blog posts saying that Facebook is going to add a geolocation “check-in” feature this week, possible tomorrow. This has been rumoured for a while but it looks like it is going to happen. This will futher compund the importace of location, will facebook joining some of the other players in the space such as Google (with Google Latitude), Foursquare (who recently recived an additional $20 Million in funding), Gowalla and Twitter.
As part of BlogTalk 2010, which is happening on the 26th and 27th of August I am chairing a panel on Location Based Social Networks.
The reason I think this trend (the replacement of the wallet by smart mobile phones), is more and more important is that consumers will making more and more buying decisions faciliated via their smart phone. If you link payments with the fact consumers are now on online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter via their smart phone, then as a business you should see the need to be present on these social networks. Your business can be in a consumers pocket when they are about to make a purchase.
Mark Cahill was recently interviewed as part of an article on Foursqure, this article appeared online and in the print copy of Marketing [...]
My colleague Mark Cahill recently wrote about “Google TV – Where TV [...]
On June 14th Twitter via their blog announced Twitter places : more context for your tweets. Giving more context, give more relevance, [...]
What is foursquare?
Foursquare is a location based social networking application with a gaming element. It helps users to explorer cities. It connects friends, but it as it is location based it also designed to connect consumers to location based businesses such as bars, restaurants and retail outlets. Users check in to locations using their GPS enabled mobile smart phones.
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