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Location is Hot: Foursquare Traffic up 3X in 2 Months
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 4, 2010 1:45 PM
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Location sharing social network Foursquare saw traffic to its site triple in the last two months since November, according to new numbers from traffic analyst firm Hitwise today. Read more at www.readwriteweb.com
This is an excellent post and just reaffirms my decision not to “become the mayor” of X…
Committing Location Based Service Suicide
Yesterday I checked in for my last time. I’m done. No more BrightKite, FourSquare or Gowalla. I was an early user on all three of the services, and am quitting cold turkey.
Well, why anyone would care can only be pointed to me just being a point of data as a heavy user leaving the services. I was a poweruser. 878 posts on Brightkite, 703 checkins on Foursquare, 54 stamps with Gowalla, and I had enabled geotagging on my twitter account and posted over 2000 messages.
All I got were quite a few stalker like experiences grouped with a shift of my thinking about location based services from expression of physical identity to needless ego boost.
Read more at andrewhy.de
I enjoyed reading this WSJ interview with Dennis Crowley (Co-Founder, Foursquare). Lots of good insights and perspectives…
Foursquare Looks to Capitalize on Mobile-Social Buzz
The growth of Facebook over the last two years, coupled with the rise of smart phones, has spurred a wave of mobile social networks that employ maps, GPS technology and other features to connect friends on the go.
A veteran of social networking and gaming start-ups, Crowley realizes it takes more than buzz to scale an idea into a full-fledged business. He talked to VentureWire this week.
Crowley: We know what is broken. [Many social networks] are a lousy, two-player experience. So, what’s the best way to make it better? Getting rewarded. Users can say ‘I’ve been to more places in this city than you have. I’ve been to more restaurants than you have.’ There are rewards. And knowing where people are, and where they have been, makes your city easier to use.
Read more at blogs.wsj.com
MobileCrunch takes a quick look at the latest update of Facebook for BlackBerry… Sweet…
Beyond the standard bug fixes and performance tweaks, the biggest updates are all focused around integration: Facebook messages can now be routed through your standard messaging inbox, Facebook events and birthdays can be auto-added to your calendar, and contacts (complete with pictures) can now be pulled from Facebook into your BlackBerry contact list. They’ve also made a few minor changes (such as the ability to comment on status updates) for the sake of keeping up with the browser version.
Read more at www.mobilecrunch.com
overall, what i love is more and more handsets including different social networking capability on the phone. our friends at Qik have been able to get on this and I think we will see some great opportunities for innovators in the mobile-social space…
Beyond the 3G, Facebook/Myspace/Twitter home screen support, and all of the other new features (see the big list below, along with a bunch of shots), we’re probably most excited about the new 3.2 inch 800×480 (WVGA) screen.Read more at www.mobilecrunch.com
