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Thursday, July 17. 2008

Arrington: Facebook, MySpace Blow it on iPhone without Location

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Michael Arrington at TechCruch (via Washington Post) chastises the two social networks because while they offer effective and popular apps for the iPhone, neither added in location, something he says is the only way to draw new users.

But while both applications are useful for heavy users, they won't drive new users to the services because they failed to leverage the killer iPhone feature - location awareness.

He acknowledges privacy concerns, but seems convinced these can be managed. It does seem these and other players are simply "late to the party" giving Loopt, Whrrl and others a jump on the mobile platform.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LBS, Apple at 08:40 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Okay, enlighten me fancy pants. I have accounts on both network sites -- and looking at Apple's usage analytics -- how exactly do these networking sites either benefit or find it less value-added at this time to not include location?

I suppose you'd have to actually use these sites to come to the understanding that the majority of its user-base could really care less to use location for their profiles, and in fact would totally not wish to use location in relation to their profiles.

This criticism is perhaps the dumbest thing I've read in some time. Yet, considering it's here, at All Points -- that totally does not surprise me in the least!
#1 Daniel (Link) on 2008-07-20 17:46 (Reply)

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