How Location Based Services are Responding to Pleaserobme.com
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2/19/10 •
Earlier this week a site called Pleaserobme.com was launched making fun of and bringing awareness to privacy and security concerns of using location-based apps. Along with that came an article by TechCrunch posting about the Most Stalker-Friendly person on Gowalla, which at the time before Gowalla investors Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis decided to update [...]
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Hack to Browse Mobile Version of Google Buzz on a Computer (7)
2/22/10 •
I read about how a few people had found a way to get the mobile version of Buzz to run on their computers and started playing with it myself. Surprisingly I found it best to do this using Chrome as it apparently uses Gears for certain areas. Below is a screenshot I took using it. [...]
Gowalla Enters the Race for API Adoption (2)
2/16/10 •
Last week Gowalla announced the release of their API. This is a huge step in making sure they stay on pace and within reach of current check in rival Foursquare. Beyond having a solid product that gains user adoption, the next most important aspect of any new web service nowadays is to release an API. [...]
The Troubled State of the Checkin Explained in a Comic (7)
2/05/10 •
Last Week Andrew Jones who recently launched a new site at StatusThis.com created an all to real comic showing the current state of the Checkin. Read more on Andrew’s post about the comic here While the comic is clearly funny, the reality is that because we now have several different location based apps each of [...]
Blackberry Version of Gowalla Spotted in the Wild (3)
2/02/10 •
I saw a tweet from the official Gowalla account linking to a photo of CEO Josh Williams using the app on a BlackBerry Bold today Image courtesy of Gowalla Twitpic account (click to view) Josh Followed up the Gowalla tweet with one of his own He followed up that tweet with one stating that “To [...]
