A company called LowestMed has launched a mobile app that allows consumers to compare drug prices at their local pharmacy chains.
The app will be a mobile extension of the company's Web resource for comparative drug prices and prescription discount cards.
- eWeek
Waze launched version 3.0 for Android. "The latest iteration of the app features a complete overhaul from the ground up, including a new minimalist graphic interface as well as Foursquare and Yelp POI integration to make it the most powerful local search navigation system on the market."
- press release
RunKeeper has nine new partners using its API, bringing the total to 45. New ones include:
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Fleetly: Lets users track and improve their Fitness Level in a social game.
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Pedometer Ultimate: Turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful GPS stopwatch.
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Nexercise: An interactive game that makes fitness fun.
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CleverRun: Predicts your target time for your next race and compares your runs to runs of the same distance.
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Cycle Log: Helps cyclists track performance with GPS mapping, interval timers, voice cues and more.
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Coachya: Helps coaches provide training plans, track, manage and bill their teams and athletes.
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Vitogo: Lets you log your strength training with coaching, motivation and social support.
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Weighty: Allows you to submit your weight and fat percentage to the Health Graph.
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Scosche myTREK: A wireless pulse monitor that is worn on your forearm and lets you manage your pulse, training type, calories burned, distance/speed/pace and more.
(I don't use RunKeeper or any phone based workout app. I just use my old Garmin Forerunner 201. It's the one Kate M. gave me after I lost my first one.)
- Bostoninno
Safely, the family safety app suite from Location Labs is announcing it "has enabled more than one billion family safety location checks since inception." And, there's a new feature: a check-in feature for the kids - so they don't have to call to say where they are.
- press release
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Brightkite, one of the early check-in apps has already pivoted once. It turned from check-ins to group texting (the "hot"? thing at SSW this year). Now the future is unclear and the company may be dead, according to TechCrunch.
- TechCrunch
At AIDS.gov, we began using Foursquare to explore how geolocation could expand the reach of our messages. We developed a plan with the following goals:
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To model transparency and to help extend the reach of AIDS.gov (and when appropriate Federal partners’) information and activities.
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To raise visibility of AIDS.gov at relevant conferences/events/locations to other Foursquare users and location-based users.
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To use “tips” and “check-ins” to raise awareness of events, meetings and conferences on the subject of HIV/AIDS and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
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- Blog.Aids.Gov
PR Manager Paul Rayment is mapping the history of famous rappers on the location-based service [Foursquare], adding note-worthy locations in the buildup to their careers. Rayment has mapped Tupac’s roots and he plans to chronicle Jay-Z next.
- Mashable
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/21 at 04:18 AM |
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From now until October 8, every time someone checks in at any Walgreens branch in the US through Facebook Places or Foursquare, the drugstore retailer will donate one flu shot voucher to a deserving individual.
- PR Week
An emergency app to share whatever a cell phones sees/hears and its location with 911 dispatchers was developed by University of Maryland computer science professor Dr. Ashok Agrawala and a team of students at U Maryland. It's currently in use by a small group of students but from there will be explanded to the rest of the school and perhaps the community. Android now, maybe iPhone later.
- WTOP
Roximity won Ford's contest to integrate an app with Sync at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. Roximity, still in stealth until the announcement "will offer coupons based on a user's location, through either a smartphone app or, as the Ford development indicates, a car."
- Car Tech (from C|net)
Rahm Emanuel is now on FourSquare as is a new (and the first!) city badge for Chicago called, of course, the Windy City Badge. (I deserve one after four years in Hyde Park...just sayin')
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Buru-Navi, from NTT (Japan) is a system that uses vibration to "guide" the device holder in the correct direction or as a feedback tool for gaming. The vision? Implementation in cell phones. I wonder if this will increase engagement with the environment rather than will the tiny map on the screen. It seems there's a military version in development, too! (New Scientist)
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The GPS-enabled enhaler may be available for purchase next year. Wisconsin's Asthmapolis plans to put it on the market.
"The best way to understand how people are managing their asthma is to record the time and place they're using their medications," Chief Technology Officer Greg Tracy told me. "Doctors can determine if patients have problems at night or during the day, at work or at home."
The real question I think: will it be covered by insurance?
- TMJ4
Australians are using their own version of SeeClickFix called Snap Send Solve. It's from Melbourne tech developer Outware Mobile. It's Iphone only now, but an Android version is coming. While SCF has ArcGIS Server at the back end, it's not clear what powers SSS.
- FutureGov
“World of Fourcraft” uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking into a neighborhood on Foursquare is the online game’s equivalent to placing plastic man on a country in the board game. An algorithm decides who owns each neighborhood using the number of people who have checked into it on each team. There are currently about 100 players.
If I recall my Risk playing correctly, back in the day the square pieces were 1 army and the long ones 10 armies. I guess the writer played Risk after it changed over to plastic "men." Many geogeeks played the game in the 1970 and 80s as revealed on A Very Spatial Podcast this week in its discussion of "geoplay."
- Mashable
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