Archive for January, 2012

The location-based check in service Foursquare recently expanded its “Explore” feature to its web-based version, providing users with personalized recommendations for bars, museums, or other locations. Now users can also look at the menu of about 250,000 restaurants in the largest cities of the US. The data is provided by the startup SinglePlatform, according to the company blog.
The menus will be available for the desktop feature Explore, on foursquare.com, and on m.foursquare.com, and app integration is on the way. In addition to the various meals served at restaurants, some also display prices.

With the desktop application click.to, users can conduct a local search with suchen.de directly from documents, short messages from Twitter, Facebook & Co., emails, and other desktop applications. This is made possible through a cooperation between Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH, click.to’s developers, and Searchteq GmbH, suchen.de’s developer. Read the rest of this entry »

As Google receives a good deal of critique for its new personalized internet search, Foursquare has been receiving much positive feedback from its users for its similar direction. The geolocation service has released its “Explore” service, which was previously available on the mobile application, online. Users can immediately begin to discover personally recommended places all over the world under foursquare.com/explore. Read the rest of this entry »

The directory Gelbe Seiten is clearly reacting to the growing demand for applications for smartphones and tablet computers: the company has released new apps for the iOS operating system, Android, as well as Bada. Read the rest of this entry »

The Telegate AG has given its online directory 11880.com a facelift: the portal will open with a location-based local search for the correlating city. The new feature is described as being more local, personal, and structured by Kirstin Bergmann in the company’s official blog. Read the rest of this entry »

Meinestadt.de has added a new rating feature to its mobile local-search application for the iPhone and Android. Users can immediately begin to see user ratings for stores, services, and restaurants, and add in their own two cents, all on-the-go. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has released its geodata service “Streetside” in Germany as a new feature on its local search engine, “Bing Maps”. Bing Maps has thus become a competitor on the same level of “Google Maps”, which has offered its own panoramic image service “Street View” for about a year. Read the rest of this entry »