From the Foursquare Blog - Hey LA, now its your turn to save $5 on every Restaurant Week meal! - (01/23/2012) - New York Restaurant Week partnership with American Express, saving Card members $5 on every lunch and dinner they have at over 300 New York eateries. Today, we're excited to extend the same deal to hungry explorers in Los Angeles: Spend $21 hundreds of restaurants participating in dine LA's Restaurant Week, and you'll get a $5 credit back on your American Express statement. Redeeming your free money is just as easy as with past American Express specials:Check in at a Restaurant Week restaurant. Go to the Special screen and tap the Load to Card button (you'll also be able to sync your card if you have’nt yet). [...]
The Power of the People Demonstrated Using the Internet
A recent image from ProPublica.org demonstrates the power of the people via the Internet, when it came to influencing our Government. The image shows which members of Congress changed their position after the blackout protest of January 18, 2012. This shift, demonstrates the power we the people have via the Internet and how important it is that we protect this right, and keep the Internet open and freely accessible to everyone. [...]
Internet at Conferences and Hackathons Shows How Existing Business Practices Can Slow Innovation
I was at the Facebook Mobile Hackathon at a hotel in Boston today, and during the event the Internet started going in and out, and eventually stopped working. Since every demo was using the Facebook platform they required live Internet. It basically brought things to a screeching halt, when nobody could present, or hack. This was a small event, but it hurts just as bad, no matter the event size. It happens at most events I attend, no matter the size. [...]
Switch From SimpleGeo Places, Let CityGrid Pay You to Use Ours
With Urban AirShip shutting down SimpleGeo there are many developers left with the decision of where to go next, to get their places data, as well as context, storage and geocoding services. CityGrid does not provide context, storage and geocoding services, but we can provide rich places data that developers can use in their web and mobile applications. Developers can make up to as many as 10 million queries a month for FREE, all you need is to register for a publisher code, and tell us a little about your application. [...]
Building Hyp3rL0cal Web and Mobile Apps
I needed a way to tell the story of the CityGrid API from the perspective of cities across the United States. The way I tell stories is through programming and hacking on APIs, so I needed a project that would allow me to hack on CityGrid’s places, reviews and offers as well as play with different ways of using the web, mobile and custom advertising we offer. [...]
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Urban Airship Shutting Down SimpleGeo
Just three months after Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo, they are shutting down the places, context and storage service. Urban Airship is merging SimpleGeo services into their mobile customer engagement solution to offer location and context-based services as part of the package. Users of Urban Airship will be able to take advantage of location and context to better segment and engage their mobile audience by sending push notifications to users based upon specific device types, geographical regions and during specific time frames. [...]
Foursquare Launches Web Version of Recommendations
Foursquare just took another step with local recommendations by launching a new web version of Foursquare Explore. Last March during SXSW 2011, Foursquare launched explore for iPhone and Android mobile, allowing users to find things to do nearby, and now has brought this same functionality to the web. [...]
Local, Geo Landscape Roundup - January 9th, 2012
From the Foursquare Blog The foursquare-powered art thesis! - (01-09-2012) - Take a look! Know of any cool foursquare projects? Post them in the comments! API Highlight: Use your check-ins to track your carbon emissions! - (01-05-2012) - bunch of people have been using foursquare to track their New Years resolutions, from staying fit to eating healthy. If one of your resolutions is to be greener this year, you can start by using the AMEE Location Foot printer(ALF) to track your environmental footprint based on your foursquare check-in data. ALF looks at the distance between the places you check in to throughout the week, makes a best guess at what mode of transportation you used (plane, car, or walking), and then calculates your CO2 emissions. From the Facebook Blog How-To: Optimize the Graph API data fetch using ETags - (01-09-2012) - Imagine if you could only get data from an API when things have changed or there is new data? [...]
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