Dailyplaces, the social recommendation service for places, has upped the social today by adding realtime chat to its iPhone and Android apps.
Dubbed ‘Places Chat’, users can communicate directly and in realtime with other users that are checked-in at the same location. Additionally, it’s possible to chat with other users that aren’t nearby via a user’s friend-list. The idea behind the feature is… → Read More
Dailyplaces, the social recommendation service for places, has upped the social today by adding realtime chat to its iPhone and Android apps.
Dubbed ‘Places Chat’, users can communicate directly and in realtime with other users that are checked-in at the same location. Additionally, it’s possible to chat with other users that aren’t nearby via a user’s friend-list. The thinking behind the feature… → Read More
Dailyplaces, which launched as a location-based microblogging platform in December 2009, has made a significant pivot today by relaunching as a social recommendation service for places but with its own gaming twist.
Aside from ditching its Twitter-for-location roots, the premise of the updated iPhone app is to shun ‘anonymous’ lengthy reviews of places as is the model used by sites like Yelp or… → Read More
Dailyplaces, the Frankfurt-based social location startup, has launched an iPhone app dedicated to the Oktoberfest which kicked off on Saturday and runs for 17 days.
Developed in partnership with muenchen.de – the official portal of the Bavarian capital – the Wiesn App is being described as a “temporarily community” and enables beer festival goers (OK, the Oktoberfest is about more than just beer)… → Read More
[Germany] Berlin-based Tagcrumbs wants to be the YouTube for places, although a much more apt comparison might be Delicious. The location-based service, which on the surface competes with usual suspects Foursquare, Yelp, Gowalla and Germany’s own Dailyplaces, enables users to bookmark, tag and share places.
This week Tagcrumbs debuted its iPhone app (iTunes link), which takes advantage of the… → Read More
[Germany] Ah, the Appstore approval process. It can destroy the news cycle. A week ago, our “Dear Leader” Mike Butcher started to ask startups on several occasions to come up with a worthy Foursquare competitor from Europe. Two days ago, I heard from a German company who said they might fit the bill. Dailyplaces sent a press release with Friday as release date. But when we fire up iTunes to… → Read More
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