Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Co-Founder and CEO has just released some interesting statistics about their geo-location mobile app. Stats include: 4 million check-ins per day 30 million venues world-wide 600,000 merchants using the business tools/ offers products 170,000,000 (170 million) API calls per day You can watch the full interview with Tech Blogger Robert Scoble at [...]

We reported on the weekend that Facebook has purchased Gowalla. This move was a strategic talent purchase, Facebook is not actually interested in the Gowalla product as a whole – Facebook just want the highly talented team of staff. Gowalla has reported that the service will be winding down in January 2012 and users will [...]

Foursquare has released some new stats, the geo-location service now has 15 million users – half of which are in the USA, the other half international users. In the last year Foursquare has gained 10 million new members. Growth in the US is strong, but in Australia I must admit I’m losing interest. Facebook places [...]

It has been reported that Facebook has purchased Geo-loation mobile application, Gowalla. Gowalla has competed with Foursquare for several years and always been the smaller of the 2 location based social networks. Gowalla is based in Austin, Texas and has around 30 employees. It has been speculated these employees will move in Facebook’s mobile division [...]

A new social mobile network is upon up. Yes a new one. Built on the Foursquare API, 4sqwifi is an iPhone app that lets you share Wifi Hotspots and their passwords with any member of the public. This is particularly useful if you are visiting a new city and need free Wifi access. What I [...]

Foursquare is revamping their badge system over the next couple of weeks. Specifically there will be 24 new badges across a number of categories and the implementation of “levels”. Showing how active you are amongst a particular category, eg coffee stores, pubs, art galleries, shopping centres etc. The way these new badges work is as [...]

Roamz is a local start up in Surry Hills, Sydney who have created a new geo-location mobile application for the iPhone. The application merges local, social and mobile technology to provide users real time data about what is around them, anywhere in the world. Roamz is integrated with other social media sites such as Facebook, [...]

I have been looking at a new mobile application called Tax Receipt Log. Tax Receipt log is a mobile application that will help you save time (and money) when it comes to your business expenses – we know how hard it is to keep hold of paper receipts! How does it work? The application allows [...]

Foursquare has updated their system to allow users to now check-in to major events. Often you will goto the movies and check-in and type in what movie you are seeing, or you may check-in to a park with 50 other people, why? because you are at a big music festival. But if you didn’t know [...]

Previously if you were a business and you wanted your own page on Foursquare (similar to a Facebook fan page) you specifically had to contact Foursquare and get access, which was a lengthy process usually only reserved for large brands. Foursquare have now opened up their API and you are able to goto the Foursquare [...]

Facebook has released a new iPhone and Android application in the US – Facebook Messenger, that has the potential to replace SMS. The application will allow you to message any of your Facebook friends, like you would an SMS, except there are no carrier/ telco charges as the messages are sent over the internet. I [...]

We live in the moment these days and it’s not uncommon to browse through tweets and Facebook posts and find friends out of town or off on a day trip somewhere. Call me crazy, but it makes me nervous every time I see a post about “We’re driving to Thredbo this week! Wish us luck!” [...]

Geolocation application Foursquare has released version 3.3 of their iOS app and this includes some big new features, mainly integration with deal-a-day websites LivingSocial and GiltCity. LivingSocial has deals for the Australian market, whereas GiltCity is only servicing the US at the moment – however international expansion is probably high on their list. Another handy [...]

Commonwealth Bank has updated their mobile platform, with the iPhone, Android and Windows 7 Phone all getting updates to their native applications. CommBank has also released a new application specifically for the iPad. Their new iPhone app has plenty of upgraded features and offers an interactive tour for users if they wish to see the [...]

I was having a look today at the mobile browser market shares in Australia over the past month (June-July 2011). This is basically showing the popularity of the mobile phones most used for mobile internet surfing. We wrote about Mobile Browser Market shares for Australia in May if you want to check previous figures. The [...]

Geolocation Mobile App – Foursquare recently hit 10 million users worldwide and is signing deals with major companies who want to integrate with Foursquare on an almost weekly basis. Foursquare has now raised another $50 Million USD from tech venture capitalists; Andreessen-Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Union Square Ventures, as well as Spark Capital. Rougly 1 [...]