Late yesterday evening, the Google Places blog announced an update to their location-based service that aims to give you "better access to your content."
The first tweak is the...
A study put out today by comScore sheds some light on who is doing the majority of the "checking-in" in the U.S.
The statistics were derived from the 16.7 million mobile users t...
As gas prices have continued to climb, topping $4 in many parts of the U.S., one fuel retailer is harnessing to power of social media to bring in customers.
Murphy USA, a gas...
Today begins the 2011 Google I/O conference, which will bring thousands of developers to San Francisco to immerse themselves in the world of next gen applications. Foursquare has...
I told myself I would stop. I really did. I told myself that there was really no reason to check-in on Foursquare to every bar and restaurant that I visited. Nobody really cares...
According to Wikipedia, this Saturday marks the shared birthday of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Belichick, Peter Billingsley, Jon Cryer, and Martin Lawrence. Only now it will also, a...
In "wow, that's actually a great idea" news, a German pet food company, GranataPet, has found an interesting way to market its product - free samples via...
If you aren't familiar with GetGlue, it is a smartphone app that allows users to check-in to activities in a way similar to how users check-in to places via...
Check-in company Foursquare may itself be on the move in a sense. Although nothing's certain just yet, its cofounder and CEO, Dennis Crowley, has gone on the record stating that h...
A patent that Facebook was awarded about a month ago, called "Visual tags for search results generated from social network information," is suddenly getting some...