Google+ Map Game Announced and other LBS News
Yesterday, the company [Google] released a video of the new game, which takes advantage of its Google Maps product. The video shows a cube with a map overlay. A small blue ball travels through the map based on the spinning and tilting of the cube. Judging by the video, it seems players will have to move through the map, hitting certain destinations to collect points along the way. When a destination is hit, a small piece of information about the place pops up, then you can go on to your next.
The game [WebGL based] is expected in February. The intro video, like other Google intro videos doesn't reveal much.
Poynt, a mobile local search and advertising firm, is now trading on the highest tier of the over the counter (OTC) market, OTCQX®.
[Walt] Doyle [CEO of Where, now owned by eBay] told me earlier this week that PayPal could be adding "several hundred people" in Boston over the coming years. (There are currently only three open jobs in Boston that I could find.) ... eBay's government relations staffers plan to pay another visit to Beacon Hill next week to continue the discussions.
Foursquare's local recommondation engine is now live on the Web. It's been on mobiles since March 2011.
While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating websites the class examined did not properly remove location data from pictures uploaded by their users.
