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Whats Hot in iTunes? Location-Based Apps.
March 22, 2010 – 9:56 am | 333 Comments
Whats Hot in iTunes? Location-Based Apps.

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 …

Farmville Defaults to Facebook Credits
March 10, 2010 – 6:56 pm | 223 Comments
Farmville Defaults to Facebook Credits

I encourage you to read Eric Eldon’s piece on InsideFacebook about how Facebook’s most popular game, Farmville, now defaults to Facebook Credits and Payments.
As location and geo dominate the blog headlines (Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla), …

Checking-In: The Geo-coded Status Update
February 6, 2010 – 12:37 pm | 216 Comments
Checking-In: The Geo-coded Status Update

Two excellent posts on the current status of geo-location companies by Robert Scoble and Hunter Walk (both bloggers are great and their blogs are must reads). Scoble argues that industry-first Foursquare is being squeezed by …

Twitter Local Trends: Local Search is About to Change
January 26, 2010 – 7:16 pm | 356 Comments
Twitter Local Trends: Local Search is About to Change

I might be in the minority here, but I consider Twitter’s launch of Local Trends Twitter’s most significant product advancement since… launch? It will no doubt be overshadowed by tomorrow’s Apple announcement – but local …

MyTown Social Gaming Strategy
January 24, 2010 – 12:33 pm | 276 Comments
MyTown Social Gaming Strategy

MyTown is best described as Zynga meets Foursquare. Take the best aspects of social gaming (Zynga) and combine them with location based networking (Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp) and you have MyTown: a game that awards points …