Posts Tagged ‘location based services’

Facebook Places: To Check In or Not to Check In

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Influence, Social Media | Sep 4, 2010 | Tags: facebook, facebook places, foursquare, geolocation, gowalla, lbs, location based services, Social Media, social networks, yelp | 1 Comment

This article was originally published at Oxstein Labs. Facebook Places has been live for almost two weeks now. Have you tried it out? Do you plan to? Do you care? Only 19% of the worldwide cell phone market is smart phones and the word on the street is that Foursquare users are happy with Foursquare. ...Read more.

Are Foursquare, Gowalla and Geolocation Ready for Prime Time Marketing?

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Social Media | Jul 29, 2010 | Tags: brightkite, facebook, forrester, forrester research, foursquare, geolocation, gowalla, influencer marketing, lbs, location based services, Marketing, online marketing, pegshot, rob reed, social media marketing, wayne sutton, wrrrl | 2 Comments

This article originally ran at Oxstein Labs. Geo-location or Location Based Services (LBS) are getting more press all the time. In the same way we have heard for a few years that mobile computing would be the next huge thing, we are now hearing about Foursquare, Gowalla, Wrrrl, Loopt and Brightkite. On a side note, ...Read more.

Three Ways for Your Brand to Benefit From Geolocation Services

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Marketing, Social Media | Jun 23, 2010 | Tags: 8coupons, contest, coupons, foursquare, foursquare mayor, geolocation, goby, gowalla, lbs, location based services, push.io, twitter places, video | 1 Comment

Twitter just went one step beyond the geolocation feature it debuted last year. The new Twitter Places feature integrates with Foursquare and Gowalla to allow people to tweet the name of their location anywhere in the world. As this service launches across 65 countries this week, it will be another brick on the geolocation path ...Read more.