Too Busy To Actually Call Your Mom? Hashtagmom Does It When You Check-In

Too Busy To Actually Ca...

Sure, your mom carried you for nine months. And yeah, she wiped your bum for years, put clothes on your back, and made sure you got a decent education so you could move to California and rock a hoodie and work somewhere where there’s always beer in the fridge and go-karts to be...

Timehop, A Time Machine...

Timehop, a startup that humbly began as 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, has just bagged a $1.1 million round of seed funding by OATV (Bryce Roberts) and followed on by Spark Capital (Andrew Parker) and a pretty worth list of angels including Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai and...

Uberlife – The Next F...

I’ve been fascinated by social mobile location services since at least 2006 when, three years before Foursquare and year after Google acquired Dodgeball, a UK entrepreneur created BuddyPing, now sadly defunct, and right up to the launch of Pin Drop the other day. The rise of the...

Wimm Labs VP Tim Twerda...

There are plenty of smart watches out there in the world. The iPod Nano doubles as one, and the new MotoACTV watch is a pretty solid offering, too. But over at Wimm Labs, they’re taking the concept to a whole new level. We got the opportunity to sit down with Wimm Labs VP Tim...
Crowley Goes Back To His Vindigo Roots With Foursquare ‘Explore’ On The Web

Crowley Goes Back To Hi...

Foursquare continues in its efforts to take advantage of its massive dataset today, with the launch of ‘Explore’ the web .  The company describes the feature as a personalized recommendation engine in a blog post … “When you do a local search on many other...
4SquareAnd7YearsAgo Becomes Timehop, Takes You A Year Back In Time Through Online Content

4SquareAnd7YearsAgo Bec...

4SquareAnd7YearsAgo , that emailed you your Foursquare checkins from exactly a year ago, has branched out beyond Foursquare. Now the service, newly re-monikered Timehop , includes your Facebook status updates, photos you updated, photos you were tagged in, as well as Twitter and...

Fly Or Die: Path 2.0...

The new Path app has been out on the iPhone for about a week, and it’s been getting good reviews among the early-adopter set. In this episode of Fly or Die , John Biggs and I go through the pros and cons. Pros: The app’s design is gorgeous, with elegant little flourishes like...

Follow Galleries And Ar...

ArtSpotter ‘s new iPhone app has just gone live in the App store and if you like art you should check it out. It’s an interactive art map that lets you discover art around you and add to the map. This is version one, but the next one will allow sharing on Facebook and...

Foursquare Adds Scoutmo...

Over the last year, Foursquare has been actively buddying up with the daily deal players. Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt City, AT&T Interactive, BuyWithMe and Zozi all provide their daily deals to Foursquare. And today, Atlanta-based Scoutmob joins the ranks of deal sites partnering...

4sqwifi Uses Foursquare...

Foursquare , and most of the apps built on top of the location service’s developer platform, are great for exploring the physical world for entertainment. But a new iPhone app called 4sqwifi  (download here ) offers something that could help those of us who need to be productive...

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