Fearsquare takes your recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. Showing you street level crime for each individual check-in.
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The FearSquare application takes a list of your ten most recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. In this way, we can show people how many crimes were committed, during a recent one-month period, in the locations where they checked-in.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/07 at 05:18 AM |
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Update: Friday Facebook announced it would acquire Glancee and its 20,000 current users. Per RWW "Glancee is a smartphone app that tells you when people with similar interests are in the same location as you."
- Glancee
- RWW
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The hot LBS apps per DigitalTrends? HIghlight and Glancee, two passive "find nearby people of interest" apps.
There’s a new trend set to emerge at this year’s SXSW know as “ambient social networking.” At the helm of this burgeoning trend is the budding two-person startup, Highlight, headed by founder and CEO, Paul Davison.
While in the past, Foursquare and Gowalla were the location-based apps that made headlines, the latest innovation a is new breed that sits on your phone and runs silently behind the scenes.
- DigitalTrends
I'm not sure if the timing of this announcement is related to SXSW but it might be. Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is leaving to do something new.
- C|net
LocalScope has a SXSW update:
Its been an exciting weekend for us here at Cynapse. We released an update for Localscope - v2.1 with new features, improvements, fixes and more. Further terrific news is that Apple has yet again chosen Localscope as one of their favorite apps on the App Store Staff Favorites section! Its an awesome feeling of accomplishment each time, inspiring us in our endeavors of consistently improving Localscope
v2.1 introduces an Interactive Full Screen Map view with pinch, zoom and pan functionality to get a quick bird's eyeview of a point of interest and its surroundings. Localscope now leverages the iOS5 Twitter integration enabling a smoother experience for users to share locations. We've also added support for the Turkish language. We now support 20 languages and are proud to reach out to such a diverse set of audience across the globe.
- via e-mail
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/07 at 04:39 AM |
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The location-based discovery service, which offers merchants free access to analytics and admin tools, is now enabling businesses to claim and verify their locations instantly for a one-time $10 fee.
The free option, which includes snail mail, best I can tell, can take a few weeks. And, those are weeks businesses can't offer specials and other goodies via the SoLoMo service. No, Foursquare does not expect this to be a big money maker.
- VentureBeat
It's been a full year since PayPal bought WHERE, the Boston-based LBS/Ad/App business. What's new? A name change for WhereAds to the PayPal Media Network which Walt Doyle, former CEO of WHERE, now GM of PayPal Media Network describes as a "dynamic multi-channel advertising platform built to serve our retail partners during a time of immense change in consumer behavior.”
- Bostinno
Ready for a roundup on the state of Foursquare, Google Latitiude, Facebook and Yelp in their quest for LBS startdom? Computerworld gives is a shot.
What follows is a look at the background and differing approaches of four major social media platforms that provide LBS, with a special eye to what it all means for businesses that are looking to connect to customers. Two of the four networks, Foursquare and Google Latitude, are completely location-based; the other two, Facebook and Yelp, are social networks that have incorporated location-based services into their existing infrastructures.
- Computerworld
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/03 at 06:30 AM |
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University of Georgia's John Knox, an associate professor of geography is among the best undergraduate teachers in the nation, according to the Princeton Review and RateMyProfessors.com. He's a physical geographer.
- press release via @theaag
The GIS Mapping Replication and Expansion Project, a unique partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and 4-H, was honored by the FWS and 4-H National Headquarters with the 2012 Connecting Youth with Nature through Natural Resources Conservation Education Award. Two Iowa youth, Jennifer and Benjamin Akers of Oskaloosa, accepted the award and spoke about the project within Iowa.
- Iowa State Extension and Outreach
What can Foursquare tell us about the modern neighborhood? That's the question being asked by Livehoods, a new project from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The project maps 18 million check-ins to determine what places get visited by the same people. As the creators explain on the site, "if many of the same people check-in to two nearby locations, then these locations will likely be part of the same Livehood."
- The Atlantic Cities
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/12 at 04:01 AM |
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Skyhook, the world leader in location information, context and intelligence, today announced TweetCaster, the #1 third-party mobile Twitter app, has integrated Skyhook's Location Engine in its Amazon Kindle Fire. Location services are now available on this device for the first time.
- press release
MapMuse today announced the release of Main Street Locator, a free app that connects users with historic Main Street districts across the USA. Main Street, Inc. is a grassroots economic development initiative sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that helps revitalize commercial districts through preservation-based strategies.
- press release
The mobile app ‘Girls Around Me’ got a lot of press recently. What does it do? What you'd expect: finds girls. How? But using the Foursquare API (until the company turned off access due to breaking terms of API use and the company behind it removed it from the Apple iTunes Store), Google Maps and Facebook. It was said to allow those interested to see their full name, photos, and send them messages. The app was on the market for some months before a journalist at the Cult of Mac wrote about it in the last few days.
- Forbes
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/02 at 03:00 AM |
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