Category: Mobile
Foursquare raises another $50 million VC funding
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 […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Mobile Search localising with Google Places
Google has rolled out some updates to its Mobile Search platform in Australia, now taking advantage of localising user content and prominent positioning of Google Places. Australia, USA and many countries now have an updated Google Mobile site with simple navigation for accessing Google Places. Look at the below screenshot on Google.com.au showing my location […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare releases Version 3.1 iOS Update
Just as we were talking about Foursquare in Sydney yesterday, Foursquare has now released an update of their iOS app – version 3.1. It has actually been awhile since Foursqure has released an update to their iPhone app. The update seems on minor, but useful: – a new display so you can easily view your […]
Read More | ShareHow is Foursquare going in Sydney?
It’s been a little while since we have spoken about how Foursquare is going in Sydney and around Australia. Foursquare seemed to really take off in Australia throughout 2010, now we are not hearing all that much about the Geolocation Service. There is no doubt in America usage is still strong, especially as Media Companies […]
Read More | ShareMobile Browser Market Share, Australia, May 2011
I was having a look today at the market shares for the various Mobile Browsers being used in Australia. The results are interesting, although somewhat fairly expected in my opinion. The iPhone (and iPod touch lead the way with a huge market share). This simply equates to such a easy to use and inviting interface, […]
Read More | ShareChecking up on Checking-In with Facebook
One of the awesome new, well relatively new, innovations from Facebook is ‘Check-In’s’. And of course when I say new innovations I mean the concept they ‘borrowed’ from Foursquare and Twitter. It’s strange really to think that people would want to alert their friends and stalkers to their current location, however, it’s become quite a […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare updates iOS app, 3.0.1 – gets HTTPS encryption
Geolocation mobile application, Foursquare has just released version 3.0.1 of their iPhone/ iOS application. The new version fixes a few small bugs that the last major update, V3 unveiled. Foursquare has also taken extra security measures for its users by using HTTPS by default across smartphone applications, mobile site and even regular websites. That’s right, […]
Read More | ShareFacebook surpasses 250 Million Mobile users, revamps Mobile site
Facebook has now passed 250 million monthly active mobile users and coming with this Facebook has overhauled their mobile website – http://m.facebook.com/ The revamped mobile site is designed to work on a variety of mobile smartphones, therefore lessening Facebook’s burden to constantly develop new apps for different devices. Facebook is pushing their overall strategy forward […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare 3.0 Released for iPhone/ iPad
Geolocation application, Foursquare – has released version 3.0 of their iPhone/ iPad application. This is a whole new design and comes with 3 main areas of improvement and development. 1. Personalised Recommendations Using data from your friends and the entire Foursquare community (check-ins and tips), there is now a new explore tab that will give […]
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New Geolocation service Scoville goes into Private Beta
Scoville, a new Geolocation service has launched which allows users to share their favourite Foursquare check-ins with their connections, and comment/discuss them. Scoville is integrated directly into the Foursquare API and can access your Fousquare friends list (and also Twitter and Facebook if you wish). The aim of the service is for you to create […]
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