LBS Tidbits
MapMyFitness received $5 million in Series A funding from Austin Venture and will move its HQ from Denver to Austin. The company offers MapMyRun, MapMyTri, etc.
MTV is partnering with Foursquare for a special badge for those who get themselves tested for STDs. The hope is that when one friend checks in and gets the badge, others will too.
- AP
The Boston Globe has release its own real estate app for the iPhone. One of the goals? To get more eyeballs for Globe ads.
Booyah is up and running with Facebook Places with an app called InCrowd.
Touted as part game and part social utility, InCrowd is unique in the LBS space as it goes beyond collecting check-ins and allows users to experience a virtual world corresponding the real world visited in Places. Like a location-based Second Life, InCrowd app users can create their own customizable avatars, “interact” with old and new friends nearby as well as accumulate status and virtual goods.
It’s aimed at high school and college kids which is perhaps why I don’t really understand it.
AOL (who?) has acquires social app company RallyUp which offer a location-based social network of the same name on iPhones.
