Hot Potato Tosses A New...
Back in November of last year, the location-based social event service Hot Potato launched at our Realtime CrunchUp. Today, they’ve taken what was a solid service , and made it a lot better with a number of upgrades. First and foremost, there is a new iPhone application that just...Just In Time For The Lo...
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’s geolocation feature...
Foursquare Just Made Yo...
As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival , which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. See the rest here: Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More...
Betting On The Oscars? ...
Tonight is the 82nd annual Academy Awards . Some people watch the show for the movies. Some watch it for the glamor Go here to read the rest: Betting On The Oscars? Google Has A Super Simple Docs Template To...
The Rise Of Transaction...
This guest post is authored by Alex Rampell , the founder and CEO of TrialPay . Go here to read the rest: The Rise Of Transactional...
19 Startups Showing The...
A total of 19 Japanese startups were given the chance to show their services at TokyoCamp, a demo event held by TechCrunch Japan (one of the country’s biggest blogs) this Friday. The event, which was co-organized by hosting company KDDI Web Communications , was a blast and...
NSFW: Cherchez la fame ...
Time was, companies knew how to keep track of their important customers. First, they set up loyalty programs: computerised systems that tracked the monetary value of everyone who shopped in their stores or flew on their planes or ate at their restaurant. When a high spender made a...
How Does Compete Get It...
A month ago, Jason Calacanis went on a rant about why everyone should boycott comScore . View original post here: How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data? At Least One Way Sounds Very...
Stealthy Knowmore Loads...
Fundamentally, what I liked about FriendFeed was that it gave me a way to take all kinds of social data and create a tailored way to view it . And though the idea never took off in the mainstream before their acquisition by Facebook, the desire for a service that can do this, remains....