8 Feb 2010
Fast-moving lava on Mt. Pacaya, outside Antigua, Guatemala.
Quite handy for roasting marshmallows and melting, well, everything in its path.
4 Feb 2010
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God … Man creates dinosaurs.
— Malcolm
3 Feb 2010
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.
1 Feb 2010
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.
31 Jan 2010
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)
24 Jan 2010
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.
17 Jan 2010
Putting Foursquare, Blippy and Square Together
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.
17 Jan 2010
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):
- Fred’s is on the corner right in front
- Sushi Hana is two doors down from Fred’s
- Peacefood (the major outlier placement) is one block down Amsterdam on the same side of the street as Fred’s
- Land is 1.5 blocks down Amsterdam on the same side of the street
- Haru is, appropriately, one or two blocks down and across Amsterdam
Look forward to using this in unfamiliar hoods.
