Foursquare. Gowalla. SCVNGR. When it comes to location-based services, games are obviously red-hot, and users (and the press) are eating them up. increasingly, these services are turning on their revenue faucets as they help businesses set up special deals for frequent customers. But do you really need a game in the first place when you’re offering people free sandwiches or discounts on their new… → Read More
Facebook Places appears to be off to a strong start, with integration into services like Gowalla, Yelp, and SCVNGR. But it also has some pretty glaring omissions, namely the fact there’s not really a good way to do much with Places data from the browser. Now PlacePop, a startup that launched at our CrunchUp in July, has fixed that with a new Facebook application that gives you an overview of how… → Read More
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