So we’re working on redesigning a few things to focus more on the ‘meme’ part of Location Meme. The site is going to be a bit quiet until then, but hopefully we’ll be able to share the changes with you soon! We really appreciate all of the great feedback, comments and tweets that you all [...]

Yesterday Twitter released some usage statistics, saying that users produce 50 million tweets per day, or about 600 per second. That’s up from 2.5 million tweets a day at the beginning of 2009 (and 5,000 a day in 2007). So even though Facebook has many more active users, Twitter is producing quite a lot of [...]

We’re doing some research on SMS and location and wanted to ask you, our loyal readers (yes, we do have a few) if you use SMS to check-in and how frequently you use it. We’ll follow up soon with a post once our research is complete.

Well we were going to have to talk about this at some point.
If you check in somewhere, you are presumably not home.
And if you are not home and that information is publicly available, someone with bad intentions could try and rob your home.
Oh.  My.  God.
To highlight this opportunity / risk, there is a brand new [...]

As it does almost every year, TED has gotten people excited about the next big thing – and this year that next big thing is augmented reality. Well, actually it’s more likely to be the big thing in 2011 or maybe even 2012 (we would humbly suggest that check-ins are the big thing [...]

Foursquare Spamming (a desire to be mayor of the North Pole spins out of control)
Gowalla party at SXSW (check out the neat way you get VIP tickets – Chad and I will be there)
Tips for Small Business to Leverage Check-In Craze
Google Buzz has Pissed Off Canada (gulp)
Gowalla Global Leaderboard (couple of faces on both lists)
Foursquare [...]

In one of our favorite Valentine’s Day posts of all time, Chris Dixon posted about the “geo stack” – a model for how to think about the various layers of the geolocation ecosystem.  According to Chris, the stack looks something like this: lat long detection > lat long translation (into venues, addresses, etc.) > user [...]

This post was originally published on November 30, 2009 on Sexy Widget.
In light of our recent claim that Google Buzz is unlikely to kill Foursquare due to the check-in process being significantly more complicated, we thought the discussion around ease vs. proliferation was worth another look.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the easier an action is, [...]

No, Plancast has not hired Owen Van Natta as its VP of Business Development (although there is a plan for his welcoming party). Nevertheless, Plancast is a hot startup – as well it should be, because essentially the idea is what we consider to be half of a location-centric social network.
If you are not familiar [...]

Six clicks, plus typing content into your phone.
That’s what it takes to share your location with Google Buzz.  Here is the break down:
1 Tap on your Google Buzz bookmark2 Tap on “Nearby”3 Tap on the list of Nearby places4 Select a location5 Tap on “share what you’re thinking”6 Enter content (required)7 Click post
Compare this to [...]