On both the user and merchant sides of the equation, Foursquare's evolutionary path is in line with the general trend, continually covered here, about LBS products moving towards discovery and away from the search paradigm that ruled the desktop.
Not only does it have the potential to stimulate growth in mobile shopping, but parallel areas of mobile development like gaming, social media, LBS, and even search. As we enter 2011, one of the hottest mobile topics is shaping up to be mobile...
Launching LBS product Facebook Places As Facebook has entered the mainstream marketing mix, marketers are having to decide how much of their budget to divert from other channels into social campaigns.
And, this doesn't begin to cover the specialty niche LBS sites like Foodspotting and ShopKick. Location-based service (LBS) sites allow consumers to share extensive detail about your business from their mobile devices and give you the opportunity...
Our local search platform partners continue to benefit from our trusted business data as it becomes the common language for major search and LBS apps. Localeze's ambitions to be the single management source for all local listings on the web got yet...
If you haven't yet, sign up for and check if your listing is on Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, and other LBS apps. List Your Business in Mobile/LBS Apps The holidays are an important time to look at how your local business identity is...
At this point, it wouldn't be surprising at all if the company were to acquire a LBS company to support its new/enhanced search strategy. Yahoo is focusing on content indeed but it also remains committed to search, Senior VP of Search Shashi Seth...
This would totally be possible, as Dave Dague, Localeze's vice president of marketing told us in an interview recently that the company is set for more social-LBS deals "soon. Facebook is set to launch its own version of Foursquare-like check-ins...
This confirms what Dave Dague, vice president of marketing, told us a couple of weeks ago about the company's plans to ink more social-LBS deals. An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech news Brand New
Facebook Questions beta is the social site's most recent feature launch. It allows users to crowdsource their own questions by submitting them to all of Facebook's 500 million users as well as to all their friends.
As part of its Twitter deal, the social LBS firm is feeding its data alongside that of Localeze, the local search business directory management service. Data Power Speaking to The Telegraph in an interview, Foursquare's co-founder, Dennis Crowley...
Dague would not reveal the identity of Localeze's future partner but said the deal "involves social location-based services (LBS). The most recent and noteworthy social-LBS deal seen recently was Foursquare's agreement with the Independent Film...
Twitter Places, as it is called, is the first Annotation (read: tagging) facility provided by the social site and functions through the cross-integration of successful location-based services (LBS) Foursquare and Gowalla.
With this multiple integration of location-based services (LBS) Twitter is following suite on what seems to be a gradual shift towards paid search. Twitter launched its 'Places' feature, pulling together local check-in services Foursquare and...
But what is LBS? Lately I've been hearing the same question over and over: "What are location-based services? It could have something to do with rapid evolution in mobile technologies, as question marks often shroud fast-moving industries.
At 2:15 p.m.there is a session entitled, "LBS and Mobile: What to Realistically Expect. It's was like hearing Ron Popeil tell me, "But wait! There's more! That's right, I just found out that Local Search Summit:09 will be held on Thursday, August...
Lose 9 lbs every 11 Days with these 10 Idiot Proof Rules of Fat Loss.www.FatLoss4Idiots.com Before engaging in the debate, I'd like to invite Steve to expand on his Micropersuasion post in Search Engine Watch, home of Sergey Brin's Internet...
In 1270, for the same amount, you could add five extra days of craftsman work, 14 lbs of wool and a bale of wheat. Even though Gary Price left SEW Blog a few months ago and is now working at Ask.com, ResourceShelf, the site he compiles and edits...
Whether a customer needs roadside assistance or driving directions, Sprint is ready to deliver, thanks to a pair of newly introduced location-based services (LBS). Hey, this is cool. Lisa Guernsey has written an article in The New York Times: The...