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We’ve written about plenty of location-based services that use elements of gaming to keep users glued and reach critical mass. But what about games that happen to use the real world as a virtual playground? Kleiner Perkins-backed Booyah is exploring this with its latest app MyTown. It’s kind of like Monopoly for the real world. When you join, you get a bit of virtual currency and you can...
Citysearch and Urbanspoon, two IAC-run sites devoted to helping people find places to go out and eat, are announcing deep Twitter integrations today. Citysearch will let businesses claim and manage their listings on the site and tweet from them. At the same time, both CitySearch and Urbanspoon’s pages will pull in tweets mentioning a business’ official Twitter name, letting visitors see...
Reading this story about how consumer brands are hunting down consumers where they live and play online and how their business models are being changed because of the popularity of Facebook. Long story short, but the reason business models are being changed is because consumers are spoiled. We are becoming more and more lazy. We expect a product to have a robust review section. We expect that we'll...
Boston had it's first MegaTweetup on Thursday December 3rd at the Microsoft Research Center in Cambridge. Organized by Joselin Mane , this event ended up with 404 people registered. That's pretty amazing for a first time event. It reflects the interest that the attendees have in getting out and meeting each other in person. Social media helps people engage with each other online and leads to real life...
There's some talk around Des Moines Social Media folks wondering when Foursqaure is coming to town. Nathan T Wright has thrown down the gauntlet and asked for the DSM crowd to video a response to his clarion call for Foursquare's...
When we last left Andrea, our ideal university social media educator , she was attracting attention from her university's Office of Legal Affairs. She'd violated a whole host of policies in her efforts to do her job in a more effective way. Her main transgression is her student centric approach to learning. She believes that learning is a social process, and as a person charged with facilitating that...
Layar's approach to bringing augmented reality to the masses is unique. Instead of writing isolated AR apps, Layar provides a very real augmented reality platform onto which content owners can layer (or layar) their data resulting in a richer experience when viewing the world through your Android or iPhone 3GS camera lens. There are already 294 layers and counting ranging from Google's ubiquitous...
A location-based social networking and points of interest app, Foursquare, is finding its way to BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) after getting settled into Android and iPhone. If you haven’t heard of…
Last week we surveyed you , the ReadWriteWeb community, about your favorite mobile applications. We asked for your top 5 mobile apps and ended up with nearly 200 different mobile apps in the post and comments! Today we reveal the full results, including the most popular mobile apps of our tech savvy readers. Earlier today our resident Mobile Web expert Sarah Perez listed ReadWriteWeb's top 10 Mobile...
"Stand by for a fighter pilot," Robert Duvall's character, Lt. Col. "Bull" Meechum, declares as he enters the room in the movie The Great Santini. And are those of us risking our lives every day on the social media front lines any less deserving of respect? Perhaps it doesn't deserve the ...
What catapulted Twitter and Facebook into the Stratosphere? One innovative approach opened the doors to the most successful social media experiments to date? An Application Programming Interface or API is what did the trick! And Foursquare, the popular location-based social network has taken a page out of that playbook in an attempt to scale faster than its competition.
The glue that further helps users maintain their real-life interactions NEW YORK (Nov. 18, 2009)—Social networking is one of the fastest-growing activities among mobile users. As one of the main ways mobile users communicate with one another, social networking—the exchange and discussion of information, content and media on shared communities such as Facebook , MocoSpace and foursquare—is...
It is fair to say that as an industry we have embraced Twitter. Just about every cafe or barista I know is on there, but don’t worry – this isn’t another moaning rant about Twitter killing blogs. I should probably preface this by saying that I am no social media expert1. I was advised by a [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .