Posts Tagged ‘Gowalla’

Google just continues in the direction of Twitter and Facebook. The search engine has now integrated in addition to the two other social communities like Quora and Gowalla in its real-time search. User questions, answers, posts and ratings – all food for the lagging Google feature. However, with a “lucky” algorithm, the posts can also show up in the universal search.

The German Facebook community can as of today use the new location-based feature Places. With this, people can let their friends know where they are and find out if anyone else is coincidentally in the area. Read the rest of this entry »

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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“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 »

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 »

Check-ins have actually always been social: whether through Foursquare, Gowalla, and whatever other programs that are out there, checking-in and letting your friends know where you are and what you’re up to is just about the most “social” feature available by location-based sevices. So what does it mean when competitor SCVNGR is talking about “social check-ins?” Read the rest of this entry »

Foursquare has been at somewhat of a standstill for quite some time now. The check-in features, which have already been outdone by social-network Twitter’s location features, rating service Yelp’s check-ins, and will probably be looking at the same situation when Facebook releases their own check-in service. So how exactly does Foursquare plan on surviving? The answer is quite simple: gaming. Read the rest of this entry »

First of all, what is geofencing? Basically, it’s a series of virtual perimeters for real-world geographic areas. In other words, geofencing is the process of creating virtual borders for the purpose, of say, being alerted of events in your current area, or perhaps of friends who are around the corner. So what does this mean for location-based technologies? Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter posted recently about the new feature in their blog “Twitter Places”: with the new feature, users can post their mini-messages with their current location. So users no longer have to post their coordinates, as previously required, but can now pick out places such as cafés, or even directly from World Cup stadiums. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »