Web Developer

Some of the most innovative brands have already begun to experiment with lesser known social platforms that cater to targeted audiences and test the waters of new advertising models. Many of these campaigns are pure trial-and-error efforts, and there certainly…. [...]
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A massive array of shimmering advertisements for Foursquare has been erected in New York City’s Times Square. This picture just appeared on Flickr; it’s pretty impressive. The ad towers over American Eagle’s Times Square retail store.…. [...]
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Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places. Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare?That’s the question we posed in this week’s Web Faceoff, our ongoing series comparing technology apps…. [...]
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Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike, Facebook, MySpace, C-SPAN, Microsoft and NASA.With constant news reports and studies regarding the adoption…. [...]
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The last time we visited the location market in our weekly Web Faceoff series, Foursquare established itself as leader in a lopsided reader vote.Now there’s a new challenger gunning for Foursquare’s position, and it’s got 500…. [...]
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We hope you had a great weekend and that you have an even better work week. To help you get into the swing of things, we’ve assembled 16 helpful or entertaining stories from Saturday and Sunday to help you start…
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Less than a full day after launching its new location-sharing feature, Facebook has opened up Places to developers.
Thursday afternoon, developers gained access to users’ check-in data via Facebook’s Graph API. Developers can also access check-in data from locations, like restaurants and businesses, to see who’s checked in there.
As we mentioned in our coverage of Wednesday [...]

We’ve seen some colorful map mashups in the past, like Hypercities and HeatMap, but few are as abstract and beautiful to look at as Stamen Design’s Pretty Maps.
The aptly-named app pulls sets of geodata from various freely available open mapping projects and plots them atop one another. Pretty Maps grabs street-level data from OpenStreetMap (the [...]

Conventional wisdom dictates that when an industry Goliath repackages and rolls out your core product, your business is in a bit of trouble.For many location-based startups, including Foursquare, users and tech industry analysts are concerned about their chances of…. [...]
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Facebook this week launched Facebook Places, a service that allows any user to “check in” to restaurants, stores and other local businesses — thereby sharing their location with friends.The new feature is virtually identical to the much-hyped location…. [...]
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