I rarely visit Foursquare.com (it’s one of those destinations that is almost entirely mobile). Nevertheless, Foursquare is doing very interesting stuff on its .com and is clearly focused on using the web to build out …

Redbox continues its string of smart, rewarding marketing campaigns. Redbox has provided discounts and rewards for email and site activity – realizing that the value of certain acitvities (validated email address) far exceeds the cost …

Maybe I am too much of a geek, but I actually enjoy reading application version updates. I assume most people do not read them thoroughly (many do not regularly update their apps either), but it …

Last week I wrote about the “do’s and don’ts of gamification“… in other words, how to effectively add game mechanics to your site / service. Thanks to the success of leaders like Zynga and Foursquare, …

Today Facebook shook up the local deals space with their Facebook Places announcement: the local deal platform which now competes directly with Foursquare, Yelp, Groupon, etc.

In May of 2008 I wrote that statistics – specifically around referrals and influencers – could be a sizeable business model for Twitter.

Traveling this week, I checked into Boston’s Logan Airport on Foursquare. I noticed that a special ‘local offer’ existed. Hoping it was discounted Dunkin Donuts coffee, I took a look and uncovered one of that …

I had the pleasure of spending yesterday at YCombinator’s Demo Day. 36 companies presented and launched – three of which were Dogpatch Labs residents: Fanvibe, Rapportive, and an off-the-record company.

It’s part Foursquare, part Fanpulse and part ESPN / vintage InGameNow:
Foursquare has teamed up with the NBA to award Celtics and Lakers badges to fans who ‘check in’ tonight and shout either “Go Lakers” or …

Thanks to the success of Foursquare, Booyah / MyTown and Zynga, “game mechanics”, “badges” and “leaderboards” have become cornerstones of any web marketer’s dialect and user-acquisition strategy.
What these three companies have done so well is …

The last week of tech news has revolved around: Twitter, Foursquare, Apple, Google (who today announced Google Places) and Facebook (who announced communities yesterday and has F8 tomorrow).
The common threads across each of these: …

SXSW 2010 was all about location. In fact, we could look back on 2010 as the year of location and geo… which would be a natural progression from 2009′s mobile growth.
According to iTunes and …