By John Taschek on January 19, 2012
WooHoo: You’ve just unlocked the URL of Blogville Badge! With Hostess becoming as bankrupt as the nutritional information in a Ding Dong and Kodak redefining the Kodak moment of another kind of bankruptcy, I immediately thought of my childhood. Thankfully those cheerful marketing images that blanketed the store shelves were…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alys Woodward, Bo Lykkegaard, Constellation, Foursquare, gamification, gaming, idc, Industry, innovation, mayor, Ray Wang, Social, strategy
By Michael Fauscette on July 26, 2011
A bit of news you might have missed last week, considering all of the high profile (and very sad) headlines out there, was a partner / program announcement from American Express. I’ve watched the battle for “local” rage on for the last couple of years with location based apps, review sites, local deals and more […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged American Express, AMEX, Consumer, digital commerce, Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, livingsocial, socbiz, social business
By Michael Fauscette on May 3, 2011
Groupon’s IPO is potentially valued up to $25 billion and it’s subscriber base is doubling once a quarter, LivingSocial raised $400M in venture funding, Scoutmob nails $1.5M in it’s first funding round, FourSquare hits 3M daily check ins and Facebook…
Posted in Business | Tagged crowd factory, deals, Facebook, Foursquare, google, Groupon, living social, location based, marketing |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Apps Strategy, backup, bill of rights, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, disaster recovery, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Enterprise Software Licensee Bill of Rights, enterprise strategy, Foursquare, high availability, hootsuite, IBM Blue Cloud, license management, license policy, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Private Cloud, Private Clouds, public cloud, Quora, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Reddit, rwang0, Vendor Selection
By Michael Fauscette on January 28, 2011
I read that Facebook just started testing a new feature called “Buy With Friends”. It seems that the feature, which only works today with virtual goods inside games, let’s users get discounts on items that their friends buy. When a user makes an in-app purchase of a virtual product using Facebook Credits they are offer […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged commerce, Convergence, Facebook, Facebook Credits, Foursquare, Internet of Things, livingsocial, location based, mobile, PayPal, shopping, Social, Social network, social shopping, Virtual good |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 17, 2011
Convergence Of Smart Phone Affordability And Broad Network Access Drives Growth In Location Based Services I’ve been a big fan of location based services (LBS). In fact, many of you have followed my whereabouts on Yelp, Tripit, and other integrated Twitter services. As many of you know, location based services take your geographical position from […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ACMA, analytics, AT&T Navigation Services, Australian Communications and Media Authority, BI, BrightKite, business intelligence, Cellcom, Cloud, Constellation Research, CTIA, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, EchoEcho, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Facebook, Foursquare, Foursqure, Global Navigator and Maps, google, Google Maps, Google Navigation, Google. Latitude, Gowalla, LBS, linkedin, LOC-AID, Location Based Services, Loopt, Mark Zuckerberg, mobile, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, OnStar, Phantom Alert, Plazes, PleaseRobMe, predictive analytics, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Rummble, rwang0, SaaS, Sam Altman, Smartphones, socbiz, Social, social analytics, social business, Social CRM, Sprint Family Locator, Trapster, Tripit, Web analytics, WHERE, Yahoo, Yahoo! Maps, YELP, Yowza!!, Zhiing |
By Michael Fauscette on January 17, 2011
The process of coming up with predictions each year is an interesting one. It involves a lot of brainstorming and idea pitching of course, and in the end quite a few ideas end up on the "cutting room" floor. Now…
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 2011 Predictions, ad, AR, context, Facebook, Foursquare, google, Groupon, hyper-local, local, location based, mobile, Social, YELP |
By Jeff Nolan on November 11, 2010
Danny Sullivan wrote up a piece on Foursquare that perfectly encapsulates the issue I have with Foursquare (and their ilk) these days… summed up as “really, who gives a shit?”. I have really made an effort to apply myself to FourSquare and have accumulated a handful of mayorships and a dozen badges in the process… […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Foursquare, Location-based service, Uncategorized
By Maggie Fox on August 30, 2010
Over the weekend, Foursquare scored a major coup via a new partnership with American Eagle: they got their name and logo plastered all over Times Square. The first story I saw on the subject was on Mashable, where blogger Samuel Axon noted, “It seems like just a short time ago that these location services were […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 4square, Facebook, Foursquare, Times Square |