Comments on: Who Will Foster the Great Location API?

By: With Foursquare Out of the Picture, Facebook Buys Nextstop

With Foursquare Out of the Picture, Facebook Buys Nextstop — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:57:54 +0000

[...] co-founder Carl Sjogreen (he’s the Google Calendar guy) told us last year that Nextstop’s goal was to be “a Wikipedia of all the great places in the [...]

By: Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location? – GigaOM

Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location? – GigaOM — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:50:27 +0000

[...] Agreed! I think that’s why I’m confounded by some of the offerings of startups that have cropped up. Ask any of the mobile industry insiders and they all say that enhanced location and location-related APIs will become core offerings of major platforms — be it iPhone, Android, BlackBerry or the web. Twitter’s decision to buy Mixer Labs, parent company of GeoAPI, is one such example. (Related: “Who Will Foster the Great Location API?) [...]

By: Location, Location, Location: SimpleGeo, Twitter, Flook

Location, Location, Location: SimpleGeo, Twitter, Flook — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:32:12 +0000

[...] topics I wanted to focus on was location. Let’s just say that hasn’t exactly been a difficult task. Coming at us from Boulder, San Francisco and London, here are today’s top three geo-tagging [...]

By: Why Won’t VCs Tell You Why They Turned You Down? | Extranet Factoring

Why Won’t VCs Tell You Why They Turned You Down? | Extranet Factoring — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:11:27 +0000

[...] the world that location really is everything. But GigaOm reports that Foursquare is hardly alone in the race to build a database of the world’s coolest locations. Nextstop, a user-generated travel site founded by ex-Google product managers, also released its [...]

By: 1020 Placecast Pins $5M for Mobile Geo-targeted Marketing

1020 Placecast Pins $5M for Mobile Geo-targeted Marketing — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:55 +0000

[...] | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 6:00 AM PT | 0 comments | 0 tweets retweet » With of an infrastructure of social location information just starting to coagulate, the monetization side is raring to go. Since real-time mobile [...]

By: Why Won’t VCs Tell You Why They Turned You Down? « beFirZst.com

Why Won’t VCs Tell You Why They Turned You Down? « beFirZst.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:20:13 +0000

By: Why Won’t VCs Tell You Why They Turned You Down? : Floriday Properties

Why Won’t VCs Tell You Why They Turned You Down? : Floriday Properties — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:05:16 +0000