Some people (like me) don’t like games. Game mechanics-driven “check in” media like FourSquare, GoWalla, Loopt and BrightKite mostly leaves them cold.
But what if check-ins triggered group buying discounts? That’s the concept behind GroupTabs, a new service launching in New York City next week. The idea is that offers could be floated on smart phones [...]
Category Archives: Mobile
GroupTabs: Check-ins = Group Buying
August 13, 2010 – 7:16 pm
Foursquare Teams with New York Magazine
July 26, 2010 – 10:12 pm
We note with interest the new partnership between New York Magazine and Foursquare, the location based service now in 21 cities that lets friends see where you have “checked in” and lets you vie to be mayor (hail Outside.in’s Camilla Cho, our mayor at the recent BIA/Kelsey Marketplaces conference).
New York’s 7,000 followers on Foursquare will [...]
Realtor.com: IPhone App Boosts Phone Calls to Realtors
July 19, 2010 – 8:55 pm
Realtor.com has gotten 1.3 million downloads of its iPhone app, which launched in January. “It is the fastest growing app in the category,” President Errol Samuelson told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco last week. “The content is free; the attention is priceless,” he added, riffing on the MasterCard ad campaign.
The iPhone app [...]
NYT’s Zimbalist at Inman: Everything Must Sync
July 15, 2010 – 4:22 pm
Michael Zimbalist, who runs R&D at The New York Times Co., told Inman Real Estate Connect attendees in San Francisco yesterday that the rise of social networks has spearheaded a very real shift from “the paradigm of publishing to the paradigm of communicating.”
“The consumer is squarely at the center,” said Zimbalist, noting that there are [...]
Scoble at Inman: Location Represents Third Movement of Info
July 14, 2010 – 4:25 am
Blog king Robert Scoble, during a presentation at Inman Real Estate Connect today in San Francisco, said we’ve entered “the third movement of information” during the Internet era. All are necessary to boost appearances on Google, he told the real estate oriented audience. In 1998, we saw the introduction of the blog, [...]
8Coupons Launches The DealBot; Scans Web for Offers
June 9, 2010 – 7:24 pm
8Coupons, the 2 ½ year old New York-based coupon aggregator, today announced that it has launched The DealBot, which crawls the Web for specific deals.
Deals found by The DealBot are added to 8Coupons’ geo-located “MoneyMap” showing deals and merchant locations. Users can weigh in on coupons by affirmatively voting on a section called [...]
HopStop Explores The Local Potential of Transit Directions
May 27, 2010 – 7:18 pm
Local consumers are presumably in buying mode when they are researching where to have dinner, attend an event, or go to the movies. How about when they are researching directions to get there?
In fact, mass transit directions in themselves represent a host of opportunities for local services and advertising (along with parking garage info). [...]
