SMWNY: When will location-based services stop being fads and start getting real?

… normals," he says. With adoption of location-based tools, things are just getting … be tracking me," says Dennis Crowley, co-founder of mobile check-in service … online. But real-time microblogging and location-sharing services that are cropping up …

Q&A: Claire Boonstra, co-founder of Layar

… Android handsets became available. We had located five content partners in the Netherlands … global platform for anybody with a location database. One of the interesting things … t exist yet. In this scenario, locations are points where something happened in …

Twitter Fail: Denny's urges customers to follow random Taiwanese man

… in Taiwan.  The menus were placed in 1,500 Denny's locations nationwide, and they may be fixed any time soon. A CNET … glitch and contacted the chain's social media firm. Alan Miller, the co-owner of Filter Creative Group, tells CNET that "Denny's is …

Q&A: Greg Le Tocq on the VoucherCloud iPhone app

… . Digital also have a great restaurant social media web site eatout.co.uk Have you taken any funding for the app? No, we … have printable vouchers on our website and all of these are geo-located so that you can simply type in your postcode and it will …

Augmented Reality for Mobile Advertising

… be sponsored, covering a white-label or co-branding.  There is no need for the … execution as well as market strategy abilities. Co-sponsor or be one of several sponsors … .  The virtual billboards can be general or location-based such as the location-based …

Staying cool and making money can be hard to do

… lot of potential to businesses with physical locations. One such business is frozen dessert … on the verge of cracking the location-based mobile advertising nut, it may … badge. Dennis Crowley, the company's co-founder, posted a response: The douchebage …

Foursquare and Bravo try to bridge the digital divide — one check-in at a time

… much to gain from viewers visiting the locations that are used for footage and owned … Bravo hosts had helped tag show-related locations with tips and the chance to win … for competitors in the space. Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley tells The Business …

Augmented reality [AR]: The technology is now market ready

… adoption.  Basic requirements for all mobile location based AR solutions include a browser … area networks kick into gear.  Proximity location sensors determine if an object is … reality in real life Toppan Printing Co Ltd in Japan supplies AR terminals …

Site review: Fish4.co.uk redesign

… browsable for users, so has added more functionality to enable this. Users can browse using the tag cloud, by location, car type, number of bedrooms etc. Search The effectiveness of the search tools varies across the different sections; …

Q&A: Lesley Eccles of Hubdub and FanDuel

… is primarily focused on the US and Hubdub.com on the US and UK markets. Do you have any plans to expand the service to other locations and markets? Right now our focus is purely on the US market – we’d love to launch a UK fantasy sports game too, but we …

The Importance of delivery instructions

… So why do I continue to shop there, as opposed to Sainsburys.co.uk? Because I know that Tesco will find where I live. I … compound the matter) most folk live in flats, in carved up locations with multiple entry points, designed to get as many people per …

Q&A: Yaron Binur of Redbeacon on exchanging local services online

… about them in detail at this time. Some areas we will be focusing on are mobile support for smartphones, including location-aware integration, as well as leveraging the social connections of users to better recommend service providers, based on whom their …

Social media tips for the automotive industry

… of motor related service and you’ll frequently find a map showing the location in the first couple of results. This is normally a Google map … for Audi A4 would have led you to stories on the Motoring.co.uk site for picks two, three and four in the search …

Foursquare gets past the man power problem by crowdsourcing its Vancouver launch

Foursquare works by letting users "check-in" to different locations in a city and broadcasting that info to their approved friends … Foursquare looking to get their city hooked up. Chris Breikss, Co-Founder and President of 6S Marketing, says on their site: …

Mobile site review: Autotrader

… page, there are some useful options; to call the seller, make notes and save for later viewing, pinpoint the seller's location on the map, and more: Conclusion Autotrader has kept it simple to use, while retaining the advanced search and filtering …