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Simple, Social Friend Finder Shizzow Opens to California
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 18, 2008 9:51 AM / 1 Comments

Where is that friend of mine? Who else likes to go there? Where is that place on the map? It's simple, useful questions like this that location based social network

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Google Local Search Now Finds Where You Are
Written by Corvida / September 11, 2008 3:17 PM / 5 Comments

For travelers, mobile applications that allow you to search for local places can be a pain to deal with. You constantly have to go back into the app to

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Google Announces Mobile Geolocation API for Gears
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 22, 2008 9:45 AM / 3 Comments

Google today announced a Geolocation API for Windows Mobile phones running Google Gears. The Geolocation API will allow developers to get location data based on the cell-ID of nearby cell

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The Fire Eagle Has Landed: Yahoo Opens Its Location Platform to All
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 12, 2008 3:25 PM / 13 Comments

Yahoo just announced that the close beta period for its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open for everybody. We wrote about Fire Eagle

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Location-Based Social Networking to Generate $3.3 Billion by 2013?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 1, 2008 12:52 PM / 7 Comments

According to a rather speculative report by research firm ABI Research, location-based social networks like Brightkite, GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013.

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Twinkle: Location Aware Twitter Client
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 17, 2008 10:01 PM / 7 Comments

Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes

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Location Awareness: Scientist Admits to Secretly Tracking 100K+ Peoples' Phones
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 4, 2008 3:55 PM / 16 Comments

Location awareness is hot. Startups like Brightkite, Loopt and others are based entirely on the concept. Yahoo! is blazing new trails in the field with FireEagle and the new Yahoo

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