A Gowalla heat map of Austin, Texas, by Bramus on Flickr Evaluating the business potential of location-based social applications—is the tail wagging the dog? If you read any mainstream media or social media sites, you might have started to get the impression that a Foursquare, Gowalla or Loopt application is your only hope to make […]
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Twiphlo: Making geolocation small & beautiful
Stowe Boyd, a longtime fixture in the tech and social media worlds, is joining Socialmedia.biz as a contributor and collaborating strategist. The following originally appeared in his blog /Message. Geolocation tools fall into two broad categories: Predictive location, generally oriented toward arranging to meet with other people when traveling to other places (like Dopplr and […]