Mashable!:
According to Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Meyer, Google is looking to streamline its search experience. Using a jazz metaphor, Meyer explains that customers aren’t happy with the fact (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Back in August, Twitter announced that it was getting ready to roll out an ambitious new project: Geolocation. The idea was to be able to attach a location to every tweet. Today, the API is officially turned on, but it’s not (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re just two days away from our Realtime CrunchUp in San Francisco. The CrunchUp agenda is chock full of goodness. Since our first event back in July, the momentum around realtime has accelerated. We find ourselves awash (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Location, location, location. With the growing ubiquity of GPS-equipped phones, there is a virtual land rush going on right now to put geolocation capabilities in every mobile app. Today, Mixer Labs, the folks behind TownMe (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At yesterday's Blackberry Developer Conference, several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) came new geoloca (Read More)
Mashable!:
When Twitter announced that it would soon attach location to tweets, we began to imagine the possibilities. In fact, we made a wishlist of geolocation features we’d like to see Twitter implement. Our top request was the abil (Read More)
mashable:
One of the emerging trends in social media is geolocation. It makes a lot of sense because connecting with people and activities going on around you is a great way to enhance and actively use the real-time nature of social ne (Read More)
TechCrunch:
On the verge of rolling out its new geolocation feature, Twitter is thinking ahead. One potentially powerful use for it will be to showcase trending topics happening in specific places. The overall Trending Topic area has lon (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, (Read More)
Mashable!:
On Monday, Seesmic introduced Twitter Lists to Seesmic Desktop. Today, Team Seesmic is bringing Twitter Lists to the Seesmic Web client, as well as geolocation support and Trending Topics.This brings Seesmic Web closer and cl (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client. And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support.Now, to be clear, mo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the abilit (Read More)
TechCrunch:
By now, Tweetie 2 has probably stormed your iPhone. If not, you should check it out; in our opinion, it’s the best Twitter iPhone app out there (and yes, definitely worth the $3 [iTunes link]). But developer Loren Brichter is (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Twitter is on the verge of rolling out its Geolocation API (actually, it’s already partially rolled out). That feature should be a boon to location-based services which can now send their location information back to Twitter (Read More)
mashable:
Correction: The real-time update only affects the Loopt Mix iPhone app for now—One of the very first players in the geolocation space was Loopt. It lets users find out what is going on around them and what their friends are d (Read More)
Mashable!:
Geolocation is one of the big current trends in social networks and mobile applications. And why not? Being able to find out what’s going on around you and what your friends are doing nearby is pretty awesome. It’s one of the (Read More)
Submitted by bensykes
from Twitter:
The revenue opp with geolocation – is hyperlocal advertising. This could be a big win for the connectivity client market. http://ow.ly/spLJ. (Read More)