Don’t let the flood of press about Gowalla and Foursquare fool you – it’s still very early days when it comes to location based check-in applications. Here are a couple of data points: – The current world record for check-ins at a single venue is 242 – a Boxee meetup in Foursquare’s home town, New [...]

Hello World! There’s a new data point emerging in social media that promises to change the way that web meets world. Location. Services like Gowalla, Foursquare, Loopt, Google Latitude, Yelp, BrightKite, Flook, Stalqer, MyTown, Rummble, and many more are racing to integrate location to provide deeper, richer, and more social services than what were possible before. [...]