‘Check-in’ craze moves beyond location
by Caroline McCarthy Despite the press, geolocation service Foursquare is still pretty small. But it’s proven influential in another way: the phenomenon of “checking in” has spread beyond telling people where you are, and a handful of services now focus on letting you “check in” to what you’re doing–whether it’s attending a concert or reading [...]
Google vs. Foursquare: Geolocation Battle Heats Up
Brennon Slattery, PC World Apparently informing your friends that you’re eating a turkey sandwich at the deli down the street is the most “interesting” fad of the moment, and Google wants the biggest slice of cake. At the Web 2.0 Expo, Google indicated it would be enhancing its Latitude service to give other location-based time-wasters [...]