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The location-based service world is white hot right now, with companies like Foursquare and Loopt making announcements nearly every week. But how can you add some of these cool new location features to your own apps? CloudMade is using the OpenMap technology to bring developers a low-cost (er, free) map to their apps and giving them the tools to hook in other location features. Here Christian Petersen, VP of Community at CloudMade, tells us what they are trying to do and how they are helping developers build a new kind of location-centric application. More info: CloudMade website: http://cloudmade.com CloudMade blog: http://blog.cloudmade.com CloudMade profile on CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cloudmade
See the original post: Happy birthday, Dennis Crowley ! Well, actually, the Foursquare founder’s birthday isn’t until tomorrow. Still, it took us by surprise, and we completely forgot to get him anything. Unlike Dennis’s mother, who came through with these awesome Foursquare badge cookies. That probably makes up for us forgetting. Join the conversation about this story We hear Facebook expects revenues to reach $1.5 billion to $2 billion this year. Here are the businesses the COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured) hopes will get Facebook to $10 billion or $20 billion in five years… Search ads – All these “Like” button are building a hierarchy of Web pages, similar to Google’s Pagerank. Facebook Credits in games – Thanks to hugely popular games like Zynga’s Farmville, this could already be a third of Facebook’s revenues in 2010. Pay with Facebook on third-party ecommerce sites – If your credit card is already in the system, why not just click “Pay With Facebook” instead of going through the hassle of a check-out process? Local coupons – Facebook is about to get a check-in feature. Groupon is showing that local businesses will buy coupons if they will draw a crowd. Brand advertising on Facebook.com – Brands like Facebook ads because they drive traffic to Facebook pages. We hear Facebook expects revenues to reach $1.5 billion to $2 billion this year. Here are the businesses the COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured) hopes will get Facebook to $10 billion or $20 billion in five years… Search ads – All these “Like” button are building a hierarchy of Web pages, similar to Google’s Pagerank. Facebook Credits in games – Thanks to hugely popular games like Zynga’s Farmville, this could already be a third of Facebook’s revenues in 2010. Pay with Facebook on third-party ecommerce sites – If your credit card is already in the system, why not just click “Pay With Facebook” instead of going through the hassle of a check-out process? Local coupons – Facebook is about to get a check-in feature. Groupon is showing that local businesses will buy coupons if they will draw a crowd. Brand advertising on Facebook.com – Brands like Facebook ads because they drive …
Excerpt from: On Monday, Twitter rolled out Twitter Places , its attempt to add a layer of actual venues to its geolocation data. This was made possible by a deal with Localeze , a local business listing service with over 14 million businesses in their database. Now we’re hearing that Facebook has struck a similar deal with Localeze to roll out their own Places area in the near future. Continue reading on TechCrunch > Join the conversation about this story We’ve had a lot of conversations recently regarding M&A in the Daily Deal space and whether we should expect “roll-up” of the regional players into larger, more formidable competitors. Initially, this made a lot of sense to me. Like the Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 systems from a thing of work to a thing of play. Foursquare beco… Here is the original post:
This series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM” for small business teams. For more information visit BantamLive.com . Hey there, ma and pop: Are you hip to Twitter , Facebook and the myriad of other social media tools that are currently at your disposal — you know, the ones the teens and 20somethings have basically dovetailed into their everyday lives? Social media may seem like a vapid way for tweens to gossip about Twilight and the like, but it can be an effective (and fun) way to reach new customers and create stronger bonds with loyal fans. Some of you may already be riding the Internet wave (let’s face it, most of you probably are if you’re reading Mashable). The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business recently did a study that shows the relationship between social media and small businesses and found that the technology adoption rates in the U.S. have doubled in the past year from 12% to 24%. &#… View original post here: Good morning! A LOT of news: Zynga raised a gigantic $147 million round from Softbank Capital to fund an Asian expansion. Twitter rolled out its “Places” feature allowing people to tweet their exact locations. Twitter integrated Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins with the feature. RIM is working on another touch screen smartphone and a tablet . These new units are expected before year end. iPhone 4 pre-orders start today . The store is down for now, so you can read our guide to buying an iPhone in the interim. Apple released an updated Mac mini model this morning also. It starts at $699 and sports an HDMI port. The hackers that exposed the AT&T iPad flaw, are now saying there’s a big hole in the Safari mobile browser . Tesla updated its IPO . peHUB says it hoping for a $1.46 billion valuation. Margit Wennmachers, the founder of OutCast communications, is j oining venture capital group Andreessen Horowitz as a partner . She’ll help with marketing portfolio companies. Google’s music store could be launching by fall . When Meg Whitman was CEO of eBay she shoved an employee named Young Mi Kim . Kim threatened to sue, but eBay paid a $200,000 settlement to Kim. Join the conversation about this story |
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