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Foursquare Out With The New Version Of “Explore” For Smart Devices

Foursquare has announced the launch of an updated version of “Explore” for iPhone and android devices. This will club all the features of Foursquare on web from filtering, photos till location...
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Facebook Buys Gowalla To Compete Against Foursquare

Since the past year and a half, two buzzwords have been on everyone’s lips: Social and Location. With the advent of smartphones, people are now connected to the internet wherever they go. With the...
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Foursquare Soars With 15Million Users: Peaking Too Soon?

Foursquare has grown its userbase almost thrice of what it was last year. It includes users from U.S as well as other parts of the globe. Foursquare announced these numbers blatantly and has proved the...
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Foursquare Hits 10 Million Users With Geo-Location Networking

The most sought after social networking platform Foursquare has appeared in the numero uno position. Just the way Foursquare helps people and places connect through interfaces like mobiles, there are many...
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Facebook Drawing Marketing Money Away From Google And Foursquare?

Facebook doesn’t want to leave anything on the plate for others. The Facebook Places feature was launched not more than five months back, but within such a short period of time, they started outbalancing...
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Twitter And Foursquare Add More Languages To Attract New Users

The success of a social network lies in its accessibility. To make Twitter more accessible across the globe, the company is introducing a new product — Twitter Translation Center. In their official blog,...
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Italy and Saudi Arabia Move To Regulate User Generated Content? What About The Free Internet?

In February last year an Italian Court handed 3 Google Execs a suspended sentence over a Youtube video which showed some Italian teenagers bullying a child with Down’s syndrome. Even though Youtube...
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Will Women Drive The Future Of The Internet?

Business Insider has an interesting report on how women are possibly spearheading the internet today. It has made a revelation, which none of us might have even considered in our wildest thoughts. Well...
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Recap 2010 : Social Networking

If you thought Social Networking was big in 2009, you should have seen it 2010. Last year, Social Networking/Social Media was plain vanilla Bruce Wayne(in a manner of speaking), this year it became Batman...
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Microsoft Finally Launches Windows Phone 7 – Will It Make An Impact?

The first Windows Mobile was launched way back and initially it was a force to be reckoned with in the smartphone market. However, over time, the force has not been with Microsoft after it has been over...
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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 15th August – 22nd August 2010

This week saw Ybrant acquiring Lycos and then planning for an IPO which raised questions if the acquisition was done purely to increase market value. Facebook launched Facebook Places but only for iPhone...
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Facebook Places Goes Live – India Will Have To Wait Yet Again

Facebook Places has launched. What this application allows you to do is check-in your location on Facebook and your friends are updated in real-time. There is nothing novel about the idea considering Gowalla,...
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Foursquare Looks To Counter Facebook’s GeoLocation Strategy – Updates Privacy Settings

On the wake of the much anticipated launch of Facebook’s GeoLocation Application onto its social networking site, a potential competitor in the name of Foursquare has churned out more or less a defensive...
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Facebook’s GeoLocation Application – Launch Expected Today

After Twitter, it’s now turn for the biggest Social Networking Site – Facebook to incorporate the Geolocation application into its kitty. And, this is an addition to an already enormous applications...
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Mobile Subscribers Grow By 17.98 Million In June’10

Overall teledensity in the country may have reached 56% but that is not stopping the growth of wireless subscribers one bit. In the month of June, wireless subscribers added a whopping 17.98 million subscribers....
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Location, Location, Location – What’s Your Location?

It is often said that in Business 3 things matter the most, Location, Location and Location. Well, that paradigm has shifted to the Web too. The phenomenal success of Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown etc bear...
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