Posts Tagged ‘LBS’

Users can search for restaurants, gas stations, shopping centers, and other places in their vicinity using WolframAlpha. The semantic search engine now recognizes the addresses from over 2.4 million providers and also provides opening times for a third of them, according to C. Alan Joyce of the WolframAlpha team. Read the rest of this entry »

The location-based mobile check-in and rating service Ditto now belongs to the online coupon giant Groupon. The Ditto team is looking forward to working together with Groupon, according to the company blog. The App, developed by Pingpin Inc., was first released last year as a mobile application. Users can check-in to certain locations, see where their friends are, communicate with them in real-time in order to meet up, and post and read ratings using Ditto. Read the rest of this entry »

The search engine giant has improved the 3D design of more than a thousand landmarks and tourist attractions in its local service Google Maps. With this, the digital map can be easily compared to the physical landscape, explains Paul Messmer, a software developer of the company, in the Google Latlong Blog. It is a part of Google’s effort to make Google Maps as accurate and useful as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

Inspired by the idea of what the were missing in their own neighborhood, Florian Eisenmangel, Simon Jacobs and Maximilian Stelzl have developed a new platform: with Spoovel.com, the start-up aims to give a meeting point for all deals, sales promotions, events, and all small and big things in the neighborhood for users and retailers to meet, according to the site. Read the rest of this entry »

Quicker has finished its Beta phase and is now introducing itself with new functionalities and the first regional offers. The location-based service portal, which launched in September last year, will put its regional product offering in residential trade into focus. Read the rest of this entry »

What are they key trends to digital economy? What will follow the Google dynasty? And why do local search servers belong to the most important providers in the social web? These questions were answered by a fascinating study by the Zukunftsinstituts.
“The Net Community – Key Trends of the Digital Age” is the name of the approximately 200 page work, that so extensively reviewed almost all facets of digital life like almost no other publication in the German language in the past years. One of the most interesting points made: the Internet will someday be integrated into so many facets of life, that we will no longer be aware of it’s true reach. The authors call this fourth and final phase of the net evolution “The Return to Reality”.
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HalloHeimat, a service from the online directory GoYellow, has been around since the middle of last year. Their operator, the 118000 AG, released the first digital weekly paper with extended content for all regions in Germany as an individual portal.
Starting immediately, users will not only find deals, coupons, and brochures from local stores, but also additional information specifically related to their hometown on halloheimat.de. Examples of such include event reports, movie times, service numbers, store ratings, and local news. Users just have to enter their current position and they will begin receiving all relevant information from their vicinity, according to the GoYellow-Blog. Read the rest of this entry »

For iPhone, iPad, and Android users, it hasn’t been an issue. For Blackberry users, it has: DasTelefonbuch’s smartphone app. But now, the mobile address directory is also available for Blackberry devices.
The free app is available for download in the BlackBerry-Appworld, and opens up a valuable resource of over 30 million addresses from dastelefonbuch.de, all from a smartphone. In addition to the individual local or national search for telephone, fax, mobile, and service numbers, as well as addresses from businesses and private people, users can also use the vicinity search: through GPS, the app automatically recognizes the location of the user and delivers requested addresses from restaurants, pharmacies, taxi stands, and other POIs that are ready to view on the map. And just because Blackberry users don’t have the other smartphone operating systems, doesn’t mean they don’t get to have all the features: they can also use the integrated route planner as well as a number of other options, such as the processing of contacts or direct connection.

Sometimes you get the impression that the Social Media makes fun of itself. Checkin Mania from Fast Company is now showing users who is using which check-in service and where. In contrast,Check.in allows its users to check in over Foursquare, Brightkite and Gowalls at the same time… Read the rest of this entry »

The American newbie Placecast can start loading up its cash-boxes. Multiple investors are so impressed with the fairly new service ShopAlert that they’ve increased their initial investment from 3 to 8 million dollars. Read the rest of this entry »