When I wrote that location would be this year's Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter's geolocation would be this year's Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time. While Twitter… [ read more… ]
Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website.While attaching locations to tweets has been possible fo…
Google dips its toe into TV programming searches, netbooks' market share is growing, Twitter and Facebook gear up for geolocation, and researchers make the case for fat as a sixth taste sense.…
Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website.While attaching…
Like moths drawn to a flame, the titans of the social networking world have all begun implementing various location-based features into their platforms. Now, following the recent news of Facebook's upcoming location-based status updates, Twit…
Twitter is in the process of enabling geolocated tweets on Twitter.com. If you have the feature enabled you should notice a “Tweet with your Location” option that uses the Google Maps API to map the tweets. The option gives Twitter…
We've talked a lot this week about the so-called "Location War" brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually, there are likely to be a lot of winners because a few of the location-based se…
Yesterday brought news that Facebook is planning to launch its location offering at its f8 conference in the end of April. In first reporting the news, the New York Times noted that "the company was not trying to beat the smaller location-base…
Filed under: Web services, Social Software, web 2.0 Twitter and Facebook both moved forward with their new location-based features today, with Twitter switching on geolocation features on Twitter.com, and Facebook announcing it will allow user…
Like moths drawn to a flame, the titans of the social networking world have all begun implementing various location-based features into their platforms. Now, following the recent news of Facebook’s upcoming location-based status updates…
Sites simplify stalking Both Twitter and Facebook have been playing around with location-based features for their respective social networks, according to a series of reports that suggest they may be planning to launch…
Facebook is going to launch its location-based features “next month,” according to a report today from the New York Times — a confirmation of many months of rumors that we and other publications have been hearing. Sources …
As I've made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don't believe me, here's a small sampl…
While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn't sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they've also…
We've talked a lot this week about the so-called "Location War" brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually, there are likely to be a lot of winners because a few of the location-based se…
A few days ago, we spotted Twitter's initial roll out of a geolocation feature on its Website. It appeared that Twitter was testing the feature because it quickly turned it off. Last night, the feature went back on, and Twitter co-founder a…
In today's Remainders: tomorrow's news! Cisco's ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss's futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; a WebKit-borrowing Firefox; an HTML 5 drawing app; Samsung'…
Facebook plant es, Twitter hat es schon, Google Buzz sowieso - die Social Networks von heute wollen wissen, wo wir gerade sind. Eine beunruhigende Vorstellung. Trotzdem werden sich Ortungsdienste durchsetzen. Sie sind einfach zu ntzlich.
Facebook plans to add friend location information as soon as next month, reports The New York Times Bits blog today. The planned product would offer users the ability to share information with friends as well as APIs to bring in location info …
Todos coinciden: la localizacin ser un dato clave en el futuro de las redes sociales como Facebook o Twitter. Foursquare ya ha dado seas de ello, y ahora las dos redes sociales ms usadas estn empezando a equipar este tipo de metadat…
Not content enough with sharing your every life moment andbrain fart via updates, photos, video and text? Do you really need to dole out more information about exactly what you’re doing every moment of every day? Well, you’re in l…
Eighteen months ago, neither Gowalla nor Foursquare existed. But their similar “geolocation” mobile apps, which let users “check in” from their smartphones, and share their location with their friends are in aggressive …
Yesterday brought programme that Facebook is thinking to start its positioning offering at its f8 word in the modify of April. In prototypal programme the news, the New royalty Times noted that “the consort was not disagreeable to vex t…
Ambas caractersticas ya venan probndose en la red de microblogging desde hace unos meses, pero ahora ya son parte integral del servicio web (la geolocalizacin slo estaba disponible va API…). Mediante la geolocalizacin, al escribir un tw…
Google dips its drive into TV planning searches, netbooks’ mart deal is growing, Twitter and Facebook equipment up for geolocation, and researchers attain the housing for fruitful as a ordinal discernment sense. The Rise of Netbooks Thi…
While a aggregation of the small startups same Foursquare and Gowalla are effort such of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn’t movement idly on the positioning sidelines. Sure, they launched location combining on their site a some life ago, …
So, the Location Wars have begun in earnest - Facebook and Twitter have joined Google in launching location based services. NYT on Facebook: Starting next month, the more than 400 million Facebook users could begin seeing a new kind of …
While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn’t sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they…
In today’s Remainders: tomorrow’s news! Cisco’s ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss’s futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; dual core Atom processors; HTML 5 d…
Estas ltimas semanas parece estar llevndose a cabo una guerra armamentstica entre las principales redes sociales y servicios de microblogging, siendo la geolocalizacin la principal arma, servicio que ha permitido crecer rpida y exponencialme…
Todos coinciden: la localizacin ser un dato clave en el futuro de las redes sociales como Facebook o Twitter. Foursquare ya ha dado seas de ello, y ahora las dos redes sociales ms usadas estn empezando a equipar este tipo de metadat…
We start of this week’s show with a bit of a catch-up from last week since Sean forgot by announcing our winner of the illustrious Braindead Award of the Week but you have to listen to find out who it was. From there we carried on with o…
While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn’t sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they…
Freunde verortet: Facebook plant die Verknpfung von Status-Updates mit ortsbasierten Geo-Tags. Die neue Funktion soll Ende April auf der hauseigenen Entwicklermesse f8 vorgestellt werden, berichtet die "New York Times". Danach soll es Faceboo…
Twitter is in the process of enabling geolocated tweets on Twitter.com. If you have the feature enabled you should notice a “Tweet with your Location” option that uses the Google Maps API to map the tweets. The option gives Twitter…
Lokasyon bazl servislerin bu yl ok nemli olacan sylemi ve Foursquare‘in giderek artan popleritesini paylamtk. Byk oyuncularn bu alanda bo durmas elbette dnlemezdi. Hali hazrda Google’n Buzz knn lokasyon temelli olmas bunun bir gste…
Beginning next month, Facebook will include location-based status updates into its makeup, allowing all 400 million-plus users to update not just with short text blurbs, but with current location as well. Twitter activated geo-location on thei…
TechCrunch just reported that Twitter’s geolocation features are finally turned on, just in time for you to find everyone at SXSW. My own geolocation features on my Twitter account don’t seem to be active yet, forcing me to borrow …
It’s on. Location buzz is reaching epic proportions. Today alone, Facebook and Twitter gave not so subtle hints about their Location ambitions. Google is already in. Yelp is already in. Foursquare and Gowalla are running like hell to sta…
Twitter has just flipped the switch on geolocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website.While attaching locations to tweets has been possible fo…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
Facebook plans to add friend location information as soon as next month, reports The New York Times Bits blog today. The planned product would offer users the ability to share information with friends as well as APIs to bring in location info …
Location-based services continue to roll out left and right. TechCrunch won’t stop saying this year’s South By Southwest conference will be all about location (except for this contrarian piece by Paul Carr). We mostly agree. But w…
Update: the winner for last week's Twilio + Drop.io contest willl be announced shortly. ----- Each week, we announce a new contest category for our weekly developer contest, and just in time for the South By Southwest, the annual geek fest in …
Facebook plans to add friend location information as soon as next month, reports The New York Times Bits blog today. The planned product would offer users the ability to share information with friends as well as APIs to bring in location info …
[from Inside Facebook] - Potentially pole-vaulting location-based social networking into the mainstream, Facebook is about to let its 400 million members broadc...
Carroll School Ranks #9 in BusinessWeek! Huge point of pride as BCs Carroll School of Management (profile) was ranked #9 in the nation in BusinessWeeks 2010 Best Undergraduate Business Programs. It was great to crack the Top Ten, as only those…
The web privacy whistleblowers at Please Rob Me must be having a field day: Facebook may be rolling out a geolocation-based tool for status updates some time in the next month, the New York Times' Bits Blog reports.Last November, Facebook stea…
While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn't sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they've als…
We’ve talked a lot this week about the so-called “Location War” brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually, there are likely to be a lot of winners because a few of th…
While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn’t sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they…
Yesterday brought news that Facebook is planning to launch its location offering at its f8 conference in the end of April. In first reporting the news, the New York Times noted that “the company was not trying to beat the smaller locati…
A few days ago, we spotted Twitter’s initial roll out of a geolocation feature on its Website. It appeared that Twitter was testing the feature because it quickly turned it off. Last night, the feature went back on, and Twitter co-fou…
We’ve talked a lot this week about the so-called “Location War” brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually, there are likely to be a lot of winners because a few of th…
As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong. And sometimes you only really start …
It’s on. Location buzz is reaching epic proportions. Today alone, Facebook and Twitter gave not so subtle hints about their Location ambitions. Google is already in. Yelp is already in. Foursquare and Gowalla are running like hell to sta…
Twitter is in the process of enabling geolocated tweets on Twitter.com. If you have the feature enabled you should notice a “Tweet with your Location” option that uses the Google Maps API to map the tweets. The option gives Twitter…
It’s on. Location buzz is reaching epic proportions. Today alone, Facebook and Twitter gave not so subtle hints about their Location ambitions. Google is already in. Yelp is already in. Foursquare and Gowalla are running like hell to sta…
Ortsbasierte Statusnachrichten sind der neue Trend. Google stellt Buzz vor, Twitter experimentiert mit Ortsverknpften Tweets. Mit Foursquare und Gowalla gibt es sogar eigene Netzwerke, bei denen es lediglich um das Sagen wo man ist geht. Klar…
It’s on. Location buzz is reaching epic proportions. Today alone, Facebook and Twitter gave not so subtle hints about their Location ambitions. Google is already in. Yelp is already in. Foursquare and Gowalla are running like hell to sta…
Today’s Monday Mashup coming at you with the help of Melina Hgglund. Lets get to it. Hot off the press: Twitter announces @anywhere platform In his keynote at the South by Southwest festival in Austin today, Evan William (@ev) has annou…
It’s the IT Show week. What are you planning to buy? News - Bootstrike: IT Show Pricelist - TechGoondu: YOG launches virtual world to reach out to youths - Mashable: Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month - TechCrunch: Twitter T…
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at KDMC's website. It's also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up you…
This week, both Twitter and Facebook have come out with big location news. Twitter is adding geolocation features and Facebook will soon let users share their location.
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at KDMC's website. It's also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong. And sometimes you only really start …
Facebook and Twitter are preparing to flip the switch on features that will allow you to share your location with your friends at any time. Facebook is reportedly revving up to introduce the feature, while Twitter is ready to enable the change…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
(Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a p…
Were gonna have us a good old-fashioned showdown down in Austin next week! Guns will be drawn, intimidation will set in and only one man will survive to walk away with the glory. And then, of course, theres that whole SXSW thing going on. Bu…