Foursquare is battling for your SXSW check-ins with a musical scavenger hunt . Rival Gowalla is going to go after them with free gadgets – specifically free Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus devices as part of a... (Continue reading)
For complete SXSW coverage, check out Mashable’s SXSW channel . Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest’s music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding the most adventurous users of the... (Continue reading)
I know what you may be thinking: Twitter location API already supports places; that’s why they call it the location API, right? Well, yes and no. Currently, it supports latitude and longitude, which tells the world where, exactly, you... (Continue reading)
It's been a long time comin', but the little startup-that-could has just gone official with its first major consumer electronics peripheral, the IUM . First introduced at CES , this ad hoc streaming stick creates a local WiFi network... (Continue reading)
Google has just added a new “Nearby” tool to the Search Options panel that lets users refine results for a custom search experience centered around location. The new location-based search option is now available to English users of Google.com.... (Continue reading)
There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog , detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six-month period — from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010. It’s an interesting... (Continue reading)
There’s a very easy way to find out if someone is home or not: calling their landline. If no one answers, chances are the house is empty. If you really want to make sure, you can simply check if... (Continue reading)
After Dell bought out Alienware, some of the executives left and formed a new company. That company, called Origin PC, sells high end computers and notebooks. Origin PC just announced their newest product, the Eon18 laptop. There’s only one... (Continue reading)
Sure, we like keeping track of where we've been , and about every day a new gadget comes along that allows us to better see the virtual breadcrumbs we've spread across the land. But, when it comes to letting... (Continue reading)
What do you get when you cross social isolation, money and Google Maps? ... (Continue reading)