Posts from the ‘Foursquare’ Category

**UPDATE – Gowalla has been purchased by Facebook and the service will shut down at the end of January, 2012** Gowalla is a location-based app that, until last week, shared a lot of similarities with Foursquare – the leading location-based app today. First launched about two and a half years ago, Gowalla has steadily grown [...]

We had a great turnout at our 2010 New Media Workshop in mid-November. Our office has hosted similar events in the past, but this was the first event that was 100% focused on mobile, social and other forms of digital new media. November’s sessions all featured local experts in blogging, mobile technology and social media. [...]

Welcome to our series of interviews with local (and sometimes national) leaders in the social media and technology industry that will be featured on the Tourism Tech Corner. Today’s interview is with Troy Thompson of Travel 2.0, a Denver-based blog and digital consulting company focused on the travel and tourism industry Travel2dot0.com @Travel2dot0 Troy Thompson [...]

Here are some great posts from the past week about social media: 1: Twitter’s Official Tweet Button Has Arrived | Mashable Tourism Tech Corner thinks: It’s been a long time coming, but Twitter has finally released their own Twitter Tweet button. They’re even working with TweetMeme (the most popular Retweet button out now) to support [...]

Here are some great posts from the past week about social media: 1: Beyond Foursquare: What Search Engines Could Do With Location Data | New York Times Tourism Tech Corner thinks: This is great news for consumers everywhere. With proper integration, Google Maps may, by default, look a lot like FourWhere.com (Read our post about [...]