Tag Archives: Foursquare

Groupon had a very good week

Posted on August 23, 2010 by markkolier

Facebook launched its new location based service ‘Places’ last week. Like many things with new Facebook products invasion of privacy was an issue. In the case of Facebook places it allows your friends to broadcast where you are and they … Continue reading →

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Foursquare, Loopt, Gowalla and Shopkick – they can be gamed

Posted on June 1, 2010 by markkolier

Having blogged about it a couple of times, I have also been ‘using’ Foursquare’s location based platform to ‘check-in’ over the past five months. I am dubiously proud of being able to claim that I am the ‘Mayor’ of the … Continue reading →

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Foursquare still needs a little more refinement

Posted on March 19, 2010 by markkolier

If the darling of 2010 applications is to truly take hold Foursquare still has some work to do.  A location based mobile application; the mobile marketing community is watching Foursquare’s adoption and usage with great interest.   It’s pretty simple.  You … Continue reading →

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Geo-fencing is one way 2010 can be the year of mobile

Posted on February 23, 2010 by markkolier

Two articles today one in the NY Times and the other in the Wall Street Journal cover location based mobile advertising.  Using a tactic called Geo-Fencing a company called Placecast (http://www.placecast.net) has a platform of ‘location-triggered’ mobile marketing solutions.   They … Continue reading →

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