Meet Booyah’s InCrowd...
Booyah’s InCrowd, famously announced by founder Keith Lee at the Facebook Places launch event earlier this month, just hit the App store. InCrowd is the first of the inevitably many apps that will be built off the Facebook Places API and the only location-based app that has...
Let’s Make Sure Longs...
Here’s what’s fun about TechCrunch’s new(ish) San Francisco office. I go out to grab a sandwich, see people I know and get to rudely grill them about how well their company is doing. Today it was Mat Honan , one of the founders of Longshot Magazine , which just put out its second...
Check (In) Yo’ Self B...
This is a guest post by Hunter Walk ( @hunterwalk ) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube , although he did at...
Formspring Ramps Up Soc...
Formspring , the Q&A service that lets users invite their friends to “ask them anything”, has had a wild year: since officially launching last November, the service has skyrocketed to over 16 million registered members, 40 million monthly uniques, and it’s now...
TweetDeck’s Undergrou...
Now that TweetDeck’s Android app is out in beta mode, with its multiple streams (notably Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Google Buzz) and blended options, many users want to know when TweetDeck will overhaul its iPhone app. The company’s CEO and founder, Iain Dodsworth , who...
Twitter Reverts Its Fac...
Remember back in June when we wrote about Twitter’s update to their Facebook app that allowed you to see which of your Facebook friends were also using Twitter? Remember when Facebook blocked that functionality about five minutes later? At the time, both sides noted that they were...
Keen on … Net Neutral...
Is America losing its edge? This was the rather depressing subject of this year’s Aspen Forum , the annual event put on by the DC-based Technology Policy Institute Read more: Keen on … Net Neutrality: Is America Losing its Edge?...
SkyFire for iPhone To B...
SkyFire. Heard of it? Read the original here: SkyFire for iPhone To Be Submitted To Apple Next...
Facebook Partnering Wit...
Today at an event in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled its new Places product — essentially their check-in utility . Obviously, there has been a lot of talk about what this means for the current players like Foursquare and Gowalla Read more: Facebook Partnering With Gowalla And...