Posts Tagged ‘Lokalisten’
Lokalisten Founders Back with finderia.de
And they’re back: Andreas Degenhart, Peter Wehner, Jürgen Gerleit, Norbert Schauermann, Andreas Hauenstein – after the collapse of their social network Lokalisten, which they sold to ProSiebenSat.1 about three years ago, they are back in the net. Their new project child is called Finderia, a social directory which doesn’t solely focus on recommendations and ratings but also on the ratings from friends. Read the rest of this entry »
Communities: Nach dem Chatten jetzt auch Schnattern
23 Sep. 2009 | Author: Ute De Mitri |
Social Networks und Telefonie – das geht auf einmal wie selbstverständlich zusammen. Twitter und Facebook ermöglichen ihren Communities jetzt das Telefonieren via Internet, nach bewährtem Skype-Vorbild. In Deutschland steigen wer-kennt-wen und Lokalisten ein, allerdings mit speziellen Handy-Tarifen.
Innerhalb nur rund einer Woche gaben damit also gleich vier Community-Plattformen ihren Start ins Telefoniegeschäft bekannt. Twitter bietet zusammen mit dem IP-Telefonie-Spezialisten Jahjah zwei Gratisminuten zum Internet-Telefonieren an, Facebook geht mit Vivox ins Rennen. Deutschlands Communities versuchen es mit Tarifangeboten für Handys: wer-kennt-wen kooperiert dabei ab Oktober mit Vodafone, hat aber noch keine Preisdetails bekannt gegeben. Auch die Lokalisten, die ebenfalls im Oktober ihr Angebot mit O2 starten wollen, halten sich vorerst bedeckt. Die Rede ist von einem Prepaid-Tarif zu “sehr attraktiven Freundschaftspreisen“.
Posted in Web Communities, Local Search, News, Practical features | 
Tags: Community, facebook, internet telefonieren, ip telefonie, jahjah, Lokalisten, o2, skype, social networks, telefonieren via internet, Twitter, vivox, vodafone, wer kennt wen | 
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Web Services with new iPhone applications
More and more Internet portals offering localized services are releasing new applications for the Apple iPhone. Google now offers a voice search, internet community lokalisten.de recently launched their own iPhone app, and Qype is working on one of their own software…
The new specialty of Google’s new iPhone software, according to a press release, is above all their new search by voice command, which at present is still only available in English; the second special feature being actual-location search. This update uses the localization function of the iPhone, making the search results even more specific (and ‘personal’). So one can search for “pizza” (by typing or speaking) and generate results directly in the user’s immediate vicinity, without having to specify the location via name or zip code.
The local friends community lokalisten.de has also recently released its own iPhone 3G version. In a press release, the operators explained that owners of iPhones with the software installed (always only available from the iTunes App Store) can access special features. For instance, the current standpoint of the user can be requested (via GPS) and directly relayed to the user’s friends on a map. Sending and receiving of news also is possible via iPhone. Lokalistas can thereby always see where their friends are and what they are currently doing.
Local search and rating platform Qype, on the other hand, is working on a new version for the iPhone. Qype CEO Stephan Uhrenbacher, in the company blog drew this to readers’ attention. Qype also uses the location-aware function, where the iPhone can transmit the actual location of the user. A release date for the application could not be made, at the time of the press release.
Posted in Local Search on the go, Local Search per Mobile phone, Local Search, Localization technology, New Search Machine Interest, News, Local Search Engines, Practical features |
Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Kulthandy, lokale Informationen, Lokalisten, Lokalisten.de, ortsbezogene Suchdienste, Qype, Spracheingabe |
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Lokalisten.de is now mobile
The German social networking site, lokalisten.de announced the start of its mobile portal at the beginning of March 2008.
As indicated by the company in a press release, the mobile-phone version of the local web community offers multiple possibilities for being able to ‘always and everywhere’ keep in contact with one’s friends. Registered users are thus able write messages on the fly, search for new contacts, view and edit profiles and photos, and even upload photos.
The mobile start page of this community for friends and friends’-of-friends is reachable by mobile-browser under mobile.lokalisten.de. Non-members of lokalisten.de are also able to sign up from their mobile devices, and can use the same login details to access the network when surfing from a PC.
Spring fever at ‘Lokalisten’
As recently as the start of December, the ‘Lokalisten’ were on the receiving end of several new features (see our post). And now there has been a ‘relaunch’ of this popular local social-networking site.
As described by the undertaking, Lokalisten Media GmbH, in a press release: many new features have made their debut including an interface to external applications online. As a result, users are able to personalize their individual member pages according to their express needs.
This means that users can become more active and creative participants in the community. It is now possible for each member to create and develop their own applications. Assuming that these new programs fulfill a series of security and other requirements, the programs will then be integrated into the catalog of applications offered, and made available to all members.
A further new item is the so-called Activity feed, so that the user can inform friends of changes to their content– such as photo albums, events or other items. In addition, the site has also been visually reworked, and navigation made more user-friendly. Users can now rearrange their pages using Drag and Drop, and place elements as they prefer. New drop-down menus also add to the new usability features of page and navigation components.
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Tags: Anwendung, Community, Freundenetzwerkes, Lokalisten, Media, Mitglied, Navigation, Pressemitteilung, Relaunch |
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