Categorie: Location

Latest Spindle For iOS Hits The Store: Discovery That’s Great For Businesses And Consumers, Raises $2.3M

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6922614822_0e4c3caf7b_zSpindle, an app that aids with social discovery, has just launched its latest version for iOS and it’s something that not only helps you explore the areas around you, it will be a great place for businesses to promote themselves and where they live on social networks like Twitter.

The company has also raised $2.3M round of funding from an impressive list of investors: Polaris Ventures, Greylock Partners, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Atlas Ventures, Broad Beach Ventures, Project 11, Ray Ozzie and Raman Narayanan.

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How to Optimize a Page for Local Search

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In a continued series on optimizing your site for inbound marketing, we wanted to provide a breakdown of how to optimize a page to be found for local or geographic content. Search engines like Google and Bing do a great job of picking up geographically-targeted pages, but there are some things you can do to ensure your local page is indexed properly for the correct region and associated keywords or phrases. Local search is HUGE… with a large percentage of … Continue reading →

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Location-Sharing App Glympse Adds Groups, Calendar Integration To Eliminate All Those “I’m Running Late” Messages

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Glympse-LogoMark-OFFICIAL-05-blue-bgGlympse, the location-sharing app which first debuted back in 2009, is still hanging in there. The app arrived at a time when its competitors were the original, location-based social networks such as Loopt and Brightkite, now long gone. But Glympse survived – and today, it’s getting a revamp. The company, which has slowly grown its install base to 3 million users, is updating its mobile apps on Android, iPhone and iPad with several new features, including support for groups, calendar integration, and more.

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Hell Yes: Amen App Reaches One Million ‘Amens’, Upgrades With More Data Discovery

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nearby“The best and the worst of everything” app Amen, which lets users make simple votes on straightforward statements — “amen” and “hell no” being the operative words — has now amassed one million Amens (votes) from its users, says the startup. And now that it’s picking up significant amounts of crowdsourced data and traction around the best places to eat, visit and other tips, the developers are making a little more of a play on it. Today, it’s releasing that data in a new version of the app with far more discoverability. Available now on the Appstore, the “Explorer Release” now lets users browse by topics and offers more location-based features alongside it.

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This App Lets You Chat With Nearby Users…And Call Them On The Phone

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wnm-PeoplePalo Alto-based Who’s Near Me Live, abbreviated as WNM Live, is a two-year-old company that’s found moderate success by launching first on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone, before porting its mobile app to the iPhone, where it arrives today with a more limited feature set. The service, essentially a location-based chat similar in some respects to the newly acquired Yobongo, now boasts 400,000 users across its mobile, web and Facebook applications combined. Almost all of that user base is coming from mobile, however.

The most unique thing about this app is one of its least-used features: on Windows Phone, it supports 3G/Wi-Fi calling. Yes, with phone calls with strangers. The new iPhone version, unfortunately (fortunately?) won’t have the same option at launch, so it’s safe to use for now.

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All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble

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location-brawl1It’s turning into a battle of apps at SXSW – the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, the apps are often so similar in nature, it’s hard to discern the advantages of one over another.

Is the app for business networking or making new friends? Does it use check-in data from other networks like Facebook and Foursquare, or does it just connect you with friends? How does the app know who’s nearby? Does it kill your battery?

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YC-Backed Glassmap Launches A “Find My Friends” For Facebook Users

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glassmap_mapviewYC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple’s Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those two competitors focus on enabling social experiences on top of their own platforms or ecosystems, Glassmap is enabling a third alternative: realtime location tracking built on top of Facebook’s social graph. Yes, it’s like a “Find My Facebook Friends.”

However, this app isn’t using Facebook check-ins to track your friends – it’s actually tracking them in real time, by running the app passively in the background. And that’s where Glassmap’s killer feature comes in: the startup is using “relay” technology to minimize the typical battery drains associated with realtime location-sharing apps today.

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