Posts Tagged ‘Check-in-Dienst’
Fight for the Middle Class (I): Google On Call?
12 Aug. 2010 | Author: 
Technically, Google seems to have finally gotten it: whoever wants to win over the middle-class has to work for it. Somehow, the idea has caught on that the world doesn’t belong to Google, as a new “service-offensive” shows. Read the rest of this entry »
UPromote.it vs. Shopkick: Start-Ups on the Hunt for SME/CRM Solutions
What if SMEs and SOHOs suddenly had a new means of direct marketing literally in the palm of their hands? Thanks to Mark McCormack’s new website, uPromote.it, this is possible.
The principle behind the concept is that promotions can be created with just a few steps using a mobile device, proceeding to be quickly distributed to a broad range of points including Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and Email.
Though the marketing is primarily focused on current customers, the contacts of those customers are also easily accessed through social networking. In other words, there is an unlimited amount of potential customers to be accessed.
Posted in Blogroll, Events, Social Media, Web Communities, World Wide Web, Discussion, News, Practical features, Virtual world | 
Tags: Check-in-Dienst, E-Mail, facebook, Foursquare, Marke, Marketing, Mobile, Shopkick, SME, SMS, social networks, SOHO, Twitter, uPromote.it | 
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Foursquare: New Game, New Luck?
Foursquare was given an estimated net worth of 100 million US Dollars by investors, who decided to pump in an additional 20 million into the American company. With such a strong support system, the company can surely rest a bit more soundly, but the location-based check-in service will need to use their new capital wisely if they want to keep up with their competitors. Foursquare apparently is one step ahead of us and already has an idea of how to make itself stand out in the crowd: the gaming element of the service should be getting a major facelift to become more entertaining for the user. This information was confirmed by Foursquare engineer Anoop Ranganath in “The Big Money’s Disrupters” podcast. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Lokale Suche per Smartphone, Social Media, Web Communities, World Wide Web, Local Search per PC, Local Search on the go, Local Search per Mobile phone, Local Search, Localization technology, New Search Machine Interest, Search Technologies, News, Local Search Engines, Practical features, Virtual world |
Tags: Check-in-Dienst, Communities, facebook, Foursquare, Location Based Services, Twitter, yelp |
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Gowalla: Now Available as 2.0 for Android
The check-in service Gowalla has given in: the app is now starting up as 2.0 of android cellphones. With this is a number of new features. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Lokale Suche per Smartphone, Social Media, Web Communities, Local Search on the go |
Tags: Android, Check-in-Dienst, facebook, Gowalla |
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Goodbye Twitter, Hello Foursquare!
Not even two weeks ago, the experts were shocked that Foursquare has way more than half a million users. Now, the check-in community has beat 700,000. The number of check-ins is over 20 million. Blogger Ben Parr from Mashable said: “Our expectations of Foursquare becoming the Twitter of 2010 could become reality.”
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Tags: Check-in-Dienst, Foursquare, Twitter |
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