What is it?
Another development in the location-based service world, and thus another location-based technology briefing. Shopkick is a newly launched iPhone app, which, lazily summarised, is the ‘Foursquare for shopping’. This is, however, a slightly misleading description as Foursquare functions around user tips, comments and interaction - none of which feature in Shopkick.
Nonetheless, Business Insider predicts big [...]
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RMM Briefing: Shopkick - ‘Foursquare for shopping’
August 18th, 2010 by Shona Ghosh · 1 Comment
Media check-ins: Foursquare for telly (…and books and music)
July 12th, 2010 by Matt Rebeiro · No Comments
With the news that Foursquare has now notched up it’s first ‘million check-ins in one day‘, it’s with little surprise that there’s an increasing number of new apps and services attempting to horn in on Foursquare’s fairly lucrative racket. But rather than go toe-to-toe with the heavyweight champion of the check-in, these latest services are [...]
Glastonbury - a foursquare festival frenzy?
June 22nd, 2010 by simonlp · 3 Comments
Festival season is underway in the UK, with the mother of all of them, Glastonbury, kicking off this week. And anyone who’s had the chance to go will know what a fabulous myriad of colour and experience the festival has to offer. Two things struck me when I first went last year:
Just how many different [...]
Stickybits: Almost Perfect
April 6th, 2010 by Jessica · 1 Comment
One of the quirkier start-ups to have gained coverage from SXSW Interactive is the fun, augmented-reality style Stickybits.
Launched by Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen, it’s an app which allows you to attach videos, messages, pictures (or any digital media, really) to anything in the real world with a barcode. Giving an example, one of its [...]