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Don’t call it an upgrade. According to Boris Bogatin, LoKast’s CEO, LoKast 3.0 is a complete revamp. The original LoKast application introduced the idea of an “elastic network”, and LoKast 3.0 takes it quite a few steps further, making it more, well, elastic. We’ve discussed location-based technology before; how social networking sites like Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, Scvngr have incorporated it to allow users to share not just what they’re doing, …
Is Foursquare at the tipping point? Certainly within the blogger world they’ve received an insane amount of press over the past year. Thanks to the publicity, they’re now rumored to reach around 450,000 users and are gaining mainstream support. But, will mainstream users get enough value from “check-ins” to outweigh the inherent risks of making themselves susceptible to privacy invasion and over-sharing of personal information? While the highly advanced social …
The Connected vs. the Disconnected… We just switched phone carriers from T-Mobile (using G1 Android) to Sprint (using Palm Pre). We were pretty pumped to see the attractive packages Sprint is offering these days, and although I know their service can be spotty vs some of the other carriers, the price is right for the trade off. For $99/ month, I have unlimited everything and bought my Palm Pre for $79 at …
Officially, I found out about the Google Goggles release on the MSNBC report last week along with the rest of the world. Unofficially, I’ve known Google has been investing heavily in their image search technology for about 18 months. In August of 2006
1.) Short Code – 3-6 number phone numbers for sending SMS or MMS messages 2.) WAP Site – Wireless Application Protocol Site or mobile website 3.) Mobile Analytics – WAP and Application analytics providers such as Motally and Bango 4.) MMA – Mobile Marketing Association http://mmaglobal.com/main 5.) 2D Barcode – Funny looking barcodes that gives the user more information about something by either scanning the code with an application or …
