8 Feb 2010
Fast-moving lava on Mt. Pacaya, outside Antigua, Guatemala.
Quite handy for roasting marshmallows and melting, well, everything in its path.
Fast-moving lava on Mt. Pacaya, outside Antigua, Guatemala.
Quite handy for roasting marshmallows and melting, well, everything in its path.
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God … Man creates dinosaurs.
— Malcolm
Captain Picard is dramatically in love with his iPhone and the Internet. Also, he is the man.
Surfing With Seniors of the Day: Sir Patrick Stewart talks Twitter, googling Shakespeare, and getting his gaming addiction under control.
Interesting: the IAB is going direct to consumers to educate them on behavioral targeting and privacy. This taken from the main Wall Street Journal homepage.
Makes sense, as WSJ’s audience is extremely desirable to advertisers, yet probably also more broadly sensitive about privacy.
I love this — it’s a great fit for Bravo’s properties, particularly Top Chef, and will surely bring Foursquare lots of new users and big brand awareness.
(via soupsoup)
Nice. Does Delmarva really count as Northeast though? I’d spring for a New England version too.
caro: I think I’m going to get this shirt.
Yelp’s new check-in capabilities a la Foursquare have gotten me thinking about what’s next for location-based/social/financial transaction communications.
I’ve recently been reading a bunch about Blippy, which lets you share your purchases Twitter-style. This is in and of itself is interesting but scattershot, at least for now. Pair it with Foursquare, however, and one could see what the average meal or bar tab at a given spot is — and, ideally, which entrees are most popular and how much they are.
As it stands, you can get this information in a general way from Yelp/Zagat/MenuPages by scanning the reviews and looking at the number of $ signs, but Blippy data combined with Foursquare would be a lot more specific. Eventually you might even see that fried artichokes are a trending topic at Celeste (seriously, they’re amazing).
With Square on the way and, with it, more and more credit transactions taking place, it makes even more sense for purchase information to be tied to a location-based service.
Yelp’s new app is well-positioned to move in this direction too, and has the advantage of a large user base. However, my (admittedly biased) view is that Foursquare has the advantage of more curated — and valuable — social networks, as I argued yesterday.
Finally, I’d think that people would be more comfortable sharing their purchases at restaurants/bars since dining out is a public act, as opposed to the details of, say, a drugstore purchase.
Yelp’s Monocle feature on the iPhone is pretty cool — and reasonably accurate. Most of the good stuff within two blocks is on here (as seen from my apartment):
Look forward to using this in unfamiliar hoods.