If people don’t check in on Foursquare anymore…
Dennis Crowley said that people don’t check in on Foursquare anymore but they use the app to see venue recommendations and find out where their friends are. Does that strike anyone as odd? Recommendations would still work, it’s making Foursquare a bit more like Yelp, but without people checking in, you wouldn’t know where your friends are from the service. It’s also making apps like Banjo or Kickball a bit less useful.
Twitter has Noah Glass and Florian Webber, Yelp has David Galbraith.
Dennis Crowley. Exactly what I was saying the other day:
Crowdsourced recommendation engine sounds like a better proposition than location based check-in service.
— Aulia Masna (@amasna) March 1, 2012
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Businessweek calls Twitter the company that couldn’t kill itself. Heh.
It may be so in countries of more advanced and pervasive economies running on smartphones with apps but the question remains, how would you conduct ecommerce without credit cards and a recognized, universally accepted, electronic payment gateway in countries dominated by feature phones and a restrictive traditional commerce law?
Twitter’s Executives (via 140 Executives or Less - Businessweek)
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It’s a long read but it’s worth the time as it covers not just the story of LiveJournal’s shift from a casual blogging service based in the US to one that powers Russia’s freedom of expression, community-building, government communications channels, opposition views, and other forms of social networking.
Adeo Ressi on company and product names
Adeo says product name and company name should be the same. Prevents confusion #DEMOAsia
— SGEntrepreneurs.com (@sgentrepreneurs) March 1, 2012
“Silicon Implants”
@cerventus @dreampipe @davemcclure So can we call the Government’s efforts to instil a Silicon Valley culture here “silicon implants”? #SG
— Daniel Goh (@danielgoh) March 1, 2012
