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Daily iPad App: Highlights

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 30th, 2011)

Today's daily iPad app is Highlights, an app that lets you find new and interesting places around you based on crowd sourced recommendations from check-in services Gowalla and Foursquare. The app works by scanning Gowalla and Foursquare reviews and then processing them through Highlights' ...

Boxcar Beta for Mac available, brings notifications to Mac

by Chris White (Mar 31st, 2011)

Today brings a delightful surprise for Mac users with Boxcar joining the Mac family. Boxcar has been the standard for getting push notifications from your social networks, email, RSS and other services on iOS devices since it launched in July of 2009, and it has been one of my favorite iPhone ...

Three iOS apps to automatically track your location

by TJ Luoma (Dec 10th, 2010)

My friend Mike wrote to ask: "A year or so ago you posted updates about your location during a trip from New England to home. Do you remember which tracking tool or website you used? A friend of mine is planning to bike across the country next summer and something like that would make his wife feel ...

Facebook for iPhone updated with 'Places' GPS check-in

by Chris Rawson (Aug 19th, 2010)

If you've ever wished Facebook would integrate some of the functionality of online check-in apps like Gowalla or Foursquare, you're in luck. The Facebook for iPhone app has been updated to version 3.2 and includes a new feature called "Places." Places is Facebook's stab at sharing locations with ...

Check-in from an Apple Store on Gowalla, get entered to win an Ollie

by Kelly Guimont (Apr 3rd, 2010)

Iconfactory have a long history of lovely Mac things, including the spectacular Twitterrific iPhone app. When they created Twitterrific, they gave it an adorable icon of a little blue birdie. His name is Ollie. His popularity is always increasing. Of course, he is super cute, which helps. So super ...

First look: Rally Up, a social network for real friends

by Steven Sande (Apr 1st, 2010)

I have to admit it: I like location-based social networking apps. Probably my favorite to date has been FourSquare, which I love because I'm the "Mayor" of a couple dozen locations. But this type of app isn't for everyone. My wife, for example, says that she thinks they're a bit too much like ...

Booyah releases MyTown 3.0, adds friends lists and social features

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2010)

Booyah has released version 3.0 of their MyTown location-based social networking app on the iPhone. As Keith Lee told me at GDC a few weeks ago, this app makes up the largest number of location-based social users on the platform, eclipsing even Foursquare and Gowalla in terms of users. And version ...

Loopt teams with Mobile Spinach for check-in discounts, Booyah talks about MyTown

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2010)

If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I'd say the current surge of "check-in" apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they're still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a ...

Gowalla announces shared trips

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2010)

There's a growing battle lately on the App Store over "check-in" apps -- Foursquare, Gowalla, and MyTown have all seen big gains in users lately (and a few other contenders have been roaming the periphery), and it looks like we're starting to see some innovation in the mix. Gowalla recently updated ...

MyTown's uncanny success

by Mike Schramm (Jan 21st, 2010)

I posted a few things last year about Booyah, an app that promised a lot, but turned out to be not much more than your standard social networking/check-in app. And despite a little hype around its introduction, Booyah had some trouble finding an audience. But the developers (former Blizzard folks ...

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