Image of Foursquare’s board via Fortune While some folks might attribute the rumbling feeling that hit New York this afternoon to a 5.9 earthquake in Virginia, Betabeat now knows better. It was the tectonic reverberations of defeat, as Facebook quietly phased out the Places feature of its mobile app which everyone was screaming for months [...]
The Browser Front: The Mobile Front: The Search Front: The Local Front: The Social Front: The Enterprise Front: It’s easy to pile on Google given their size, their wallet, and their global influence and impact. They are the goliath, and have been for many years, and are now facing many challenging tests, all at the [...]
In a Q1 2011 survey of its Wi-Fi Media Channel users, JiWire found that 44% made a purchase from a social shopping deal site, such as Groupon or LivingSocial, at least once a month. That includes 14% who do so at least once a week. Fewer than one-third of mobile Wi-Fi users said they never [...]
Mobile: 5.3 billion mobile devices are used worldwide — that’s 77 percent of the world’s population Smartphones: 21.8 percent of all mobile devices are smartphones. Despite what one might think, Apple does not top the list in sales—Nokia does Skype: Mobile usage continues to increase thanks to Skype’s wise investment in apps and its mobile platform Facebook: Now tops [...]
The mobile land rush is in full swing. Applications are being downloaded at a mind-bending speed, mobile media click-through rates are outstanding, and everyone in the space is working to create unique experiences that will drive everyday use.But while mobile is rightly being treated as a core area of consumer engagement, too often it is [...]
WordSpy entry for SoLoMo SoLoMo n. Mobile phone apps that combine social networking and location data. [Social + location (or local) + mobile.] via socialcommercetoday.com
When asked why they don’t use location services, 58 per cent of respondents said they “didn’t see the point”. Despite teens being seen as careless with their online privacy, 45 per cent are avoiding location services because they consider them unsafe. 28 per cent said they didn’t believe their phones could run the software, while [...]
Let’s look at Foursquare and Facebook. First, there’s no doubt Foursquare is throwing off some impressive numbers (e.g. the company’s recent announcement of 6 million users). It typically announces total, rather than active, users and that number is roughly growing linearly at present. Total users, by definition, of course, only goes up – yet according [...]
You might say that the Go Game, an iPhone game launching this week at SXSW, is the best-researched project in the history of location games. Founders Ian Fraser and Finnegan Kelly have spent the last 10 years running a hacked-together version of the game at corporate team-building events for Google, Apple, EA Games, Zynga, Facebook, [...]
