Archive for September, 2010

The Frankfurt based TVG Verlag, which publishes the telephone books for Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich, amongst other things, was the only provider in the local search field nominated by the Telekom-portal Softwareload for Software of the Year 2010. Today was the last day that people could cast their vote. The possible prizes have a total worth of 10,000 euro.
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The Berlin-based Yoc-Group has officially „pimped“ the iPhone App for the Deutsche Post (German Post). Not only is „Post Mobile“ 2.0 optimized for the iPhone 4, but it now offers an augmented reality.
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Welcome to the club: now the rating community Yelp is offering a “deal of the day”. The start-up is just in San Diego. Next in line are New York and San Francisco. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s no doubt that Google’s perfect image has become, well, not so perfect in the last two years. A lot of the problems were home-made, such as pushing services that nobody wanted, like Wave, on people. A lot of it came from some discussion from the self-entitled data protection gods, especially when it came to Street View. The cracks from NMA World Edition in Taiwan have now joined the discussion and are attacking Google yet again through a series of videos they’ve posted online about the firm’s attempt to gain control of the world.

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This is how check-ins are made fun: Topguest, a so-called all-in-one check-in service, has now integrated Facebook Places with itself. So whoever uses Facebook Places check-in service and links it to their Topguest account can collect points and use them later to help for travel.

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KaufDA is currently something like “everyone’s darling” as far as local search goes. Cooperation with Immobilienscout, DasTelefonbuch, or theDeutsche Telekom, the purchasing of DeutschlandCoupon, being voted as “Startup of the Year 2009″ and tons of the right kinds of media attention – this doesn’t come around too often. Now the company is fueling the fire with kaufDA-Ticker. Read the rest of this entry »

“Kilroy was here” – the little graffiti with the respective saying should be the most famous in the world. When a service calls itself qilroy, the its name is program. The new spin-off of the American cell provider Qualcomm shows its users who, in a given local area, is currently updating on Facebook, Twitter, and Gowalla. On the flip side, whoever uses MessageParty can chat with people in the local area. Read the rest of this entry »

It doesn’t take a genius to realize what’s going on with Facebook right now. Though all of the kinks have yet to be fixed with the new Place feature, market researcher Comscore has come up with some spectacular numbers: Facebook is just one step away from beating Yahoo as the third most visited website in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Even if – or maybe even because – Facebook just fueled the check-in hype with Places, the veterans in the market, Foursquare and Gowalla, are being as boring as rocks. At least Foursquare wants to release a new feature, though. Read the rest of this entry »