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flook.it

https://flook.it/
Last activity: 23.01.2012
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Mentions
10

Overview

Location
Italy
Employees
11-50

Mentions in press and media 10

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Nov 30, 2010Flook discovers English Heritage – that's castles, ruined abbeys and stately homesFlook, which we’ve previously described as a StumbleUpon for location-based discovery, has partnered with English Heritage, the UK government’s quango responsible for helping preserve historical landmarks, such as famous sites like Stonehen...
Oct 6, 2010Flook extends it StumbleUpon-for-location app beyond the iPhoneFlook, a sort of StumbleUpon for location-based discovery from Ambient Industries, has extended its content creation tool beyond the iPhone so that users can create ‘cards’ via a standard web browser. The new Web Card Creator takes advantag...
Jun 7, 2010Is it a fluke that Flook is gaining traction, especially amongst women? Maybe notFlook, the location-based application from Ambient Industries which has now has a total of £1.65m in funding from Amadeus Capital Partners and Eden Ventures has always puzzled me. Flook is a location-based service that has a web app and an ...
Feb 15, 2010Updated: Mobile startups singled out to win global awardsEvery year there’s an “off broadway” event during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which is always way more focused around startups and new applications. Although MWC has this year created an entire, echoing hall called AppsPlanet, the Mo...
Feb 1, 2010Flook closes $1 million seed roundWith secured funding, Ambient Ventures brings series of updates to location discovery iPhone app Flook, a location browsing app for the iPhone that we first profiled a couple weeks ago, has extended and closed its seed round of funding to $...
Feb 1, 2010Ambient Industries Gets More Funding To Build Out Its StumbleUpon For LocationLocation-based services continue their hot streak when it comes to funding, as Ambient Industries has received an extension to their seed round to build out their application Flook. Alongside this news, Flook is gaining a number of new feat...
Jan 19, 2010Flook: Location discovery for stumblersAnother Gowalla/Foursquare competitor, but this one comes with serendipity The location discovery market for mobile apps is starting to look like the social discovery market on the Web. In just the same way that Reddit, Digg, and StumbleUpo...
Nov 27, 2009Let's vote on it: Will Europeans use Gowalla, FourSquare or what?So it’s been nearly 10 days since Foursquare launched its social mobile game ‘ground assault’ into 50 more cities, including a bunch of European ones. But what I’d like to know is who’s actually using it here in Europe? Because, you see, Eu...
Nov 27, 2009Vote: Will Europeans use Gowalla, FourSquare or what?So it’s been nearly 10 days since Foursquare launched its social mobile game ‘ground assault’ into 50 more cities, including a bunch of European ones. But what I’d like to know is who’s actually using it here in Europe? Because, you see, Eu...

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What has the press written about flook.it?

Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning flook.it, among them “Flook discovers English Heritage – that's castles, ruined abbeys and stately homes” (Nov 30, 2010) and “Flook extends it StumbleUpon-for-location app beyond the iPhone” (Oct 6, 2010).

Is flook.it still active?

flook.it is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 23, 2012.