More Facebook Places experimentation (is it clear enough yet that Places is gaining strategic importance?):

Have you gotten sick of my writing about getting your marketing and product promotions “in the river”?
“In the river” is my terminology for making sure that messages are delivered inside the core experience and …

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.

Gilt Group has rolled out their new group-buying / coupon site Gilt City to six cities (New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Chicago). With it comes the Gilt City iPhone app.
There isn’t …

This is picture from Twitpic sums up the options that consumers and brick & mortar retailers face: choice overload. Google Places, Facebook Places and/or Fan Pages, Twitter, Yelp… and that doesn’t include Groupon, LivingSocial, and …

Lost among the hubbub surrounding the similarly named Facebook Places is Google’s local product: Google Places. It might not include check-ins, but it is a product aimed at local businesses and search queries… and tied …

Applications now being built atop:
– mobile web (html5, wap, etc)
– mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, etc)
– browser extensions (chrome, firefox, safari, etc)
– desktop apps (ie adobe air)

But tying together the web’s most visited site (Facebook) with arguably the most important communication platform (email) is both natural and a long time coming.
And with this week’s announcement of Microsoft’s ‘Outlook Social Connector‘ …

Facebook’s F8 announcements featured prominent partner integrations with Pandora, IMDB, ESPN and Yelp… but Levi’s quickly demonstrated that the Open Graph and web-wide Like functionality are highly applicable to e-commerce and social shopping. Just as …

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 …

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 …

While you might disagree with Yelp’s method of getting their new iPhone Application upgrade through Apple’s review process – the fact remains that Yelp has innovated and pushed the boundaries from a consumer, development and …