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| Apr 18, 2011 | Groupon gobbles up Pelago, but plans to unplug its mobile check-in app Whrrl | Team Pelago (Photo via Carlos Paradinha Jr.)
Groupon is pushing deeper into the mobile world today, gobbling up Seattle startup Pelago for an undisclosed price. Tricia Duryee at All Things D has more details, noting that co-founder Jeff Hol... |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Location-based check-in data on its way to becoming a commodity | Jeff Holden is cofounder and CEO of location-based social networking company Pelago, maker of Whrrl.
Location-based “check-in” services like Foursquare, Gowalla, and my own service, Whrrl are becoming increasingly popular. These services al... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | Beyond Foursquare: What Search Engines Could Do With Location Data | Foursquare says it’s in talks with all the major search engines to index the startup’s location data. We’re hearing that Google in particular may be in talks with all the major players in the location-based social networking market. What wo... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Foursquare's Next Game: Choose Your Own Adventure? | Foursquare is growing quickly, gaining momentum from mainstream deals, and now they have the money in the bank to keep it up. But the big question remains: can they keep it up in the face of major competition? Twitter already has location f... |
| Jun 10, 2010 | Sick of Useless Badges and Mayorships? Topguest Makes Check-ins Meaningful | If you’re an early adopter, you’ve not doubt heard of (and probably even use) mobile “check-in” applications. Popular location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Whrrl, TriOut, Loopt and others are all the rage these days,... |
| May 31, 2010 | Loopt Star Keeps It Simple: Check-Ins, Specials, And Facebook | Back in January, we noted that Loopt was sending around a deck to advertisers showing off a new product. The product was focused on check-in specials (the kind popularized by Foursquare) and was entirely built on top of Facebook’s social gr... |
| May 18, 2010 | Check.in Checks Out Of Closed Beta And Into Your HTML5-Compatible Device | Back in March, I wrote about the problem of check-in fatigue. That is, with so many location-based check-in services now out there, it’s exhausting to open each one every time to check-in to the same place across multiple networks. The solu... |
| Apr 16, 2010 | Glympse Rolls Out Facebook Tie-In, Looks to Gain Traction in Location-Aware Social Networks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Question: Where is Glympse? Answer: Getting more socially connected.
The Redmond, WA, startup, which makes location-based software for mobile phones, is announcing today it ha... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | John Doerr: The Next Big Thing | This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP’s increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP’s Matt Murphy on... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I'm Rooting For An All-Out Location War. | I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Whrrl 3 Wants To Kill Farmville. Not Foursquare. Not Gowalla. Farmville. | Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander-style. So they approached me with a pretty smart pitch: curing the “social rut.” What ... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Whrrl, Still Trying To Find Its Way In Location, Focuses On "Footstreams" | Much of the web is based around clickstreams. The latest version of Whrrl, a location-based application by Pelago, wants to take that concept into the real world, with “footstreams.”
Up until this point, since the launch of version 2 of its... |
| Oct 23, 2009 | A review of location-based networks — and how they can grow faster | Location based social networking keeps getting tremendous hype, but the question is whether it will live up to its potential.
The buzz continued this week when Loopt, one of the earliest location-based social networks, announced the acquisi... |
| Oct 23, 2009 | A review of location-based networks — and how they can grow faster | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Location based social networking keeps getting tr... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | Loopt Launches First Always-On, Location-Aware iPhone App – Hopefully Others Will Follow Soon | Loopt, a location-aware mobile application and social network, just announced that it will become the first third-party iPhone app that will be able to offer an always-on location service on the iPhone. From what we have seen, AT&T offi... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | Background Location Finds A Loop(t)hole On The iPhone | A location-based social network is not going to truly take off on the iPhone until it can run in the background. You know it, I know it, and even Loopt, which makes such an app, knows it. That’s why they’ve done something about it.
Beginnin... |
| May 12, 2009 | Leaked Loopt 2.0 Screenshot Reveals New Focus On Places | Loopt was the first location-based iPhone app to get a lot of buzz. It’s a social network that lets you keep track of where your friends are with the help of the iPhone’s GPS. Since it launched in the App Store on day 1 in July of last year... |
| May 4, 2009 | Google Latitude Now Lets You Publish Your Location To Gmail Chat And Your Blog | Google has released two nifty applications for Google Latitude, a feature launched through Google Mobile Maps that allows you to broadcast your location to select friends, family, and colleagues based on the coordinates of your cell phone (... |
| Apr 15, 2009 | When Google Latitude Stalking Isn't Such A Bad Thing | Yesterday, Silicon Valley’s local CBS affiliate ran a story (video here) about a woman getting her purse snatched. But what’s interesting is the way she got it back: With an assist from Google Latitude.
You see, in her purse, her phone had ... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Sense Networks: 4 Million Sensors to Help You Find a Party in San Francisco | Yesterday we discussed MIT’s project WikiCity, which monitors location data in cities via mobile sensors and creates visualizations from that. That project comes out of the SENSEable City lab at MIT and in our post we questioned whether the... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | StoryTlr Adds a New Dimension to Lifestreaming with Pages | StoryTlr, a lifestreaming service that debuted to a lot of positivepress last year, has (among several other enhancements) debuted a major new feature today: Pages. This is a new gallery format view of selected portions of a total lifestrea... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Telecom Giant Vodafone Gets Into Location Based Social Networking With Pocket Life | Pocket Life, a geo-aware social network backed by mobile network giant Vodafone, has launched to the public. The service allows users to update their friends on their current locations automatically, and also allows them to syndicate status... |
| Sep 28, 2008 | The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone | We’ve been bullish about location-based social networks for quite awhile now, especially since Apple announced that it would open up the iPhone to developers. And with two significant developments in this space just this week (more on that ... |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Bezos Invests in Social Gaming Network | Jeff Bezos clearly thinks there is a future in casual gaming. Just this May, he invested $3 million in Kongregate. Today, Bezos invested an undisclosed amount in the Social Gaming Network (SGN), which develops games like Jetman and WarBook ... |
| Jun 17, 2008 | Loopt: Another Mobile Contender | Loopt is the third location aware mobile social network to become available for the majority of U.S. smartphones . It joins fellow competitors Whrrl and Brightkite, both of which have already started to gain traction (see our coverage of Br... |
| Jun 13, 2008 | Loopt Now Available For BlackBerry Users | Mobile social network Loopt is making a big push this summer.
CEO Sam Altman already took stage at last week’s Stevenote prior to the unveiling of iPhone 3G. He was there to present the friend tracking software Loopt has been developing in ... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Whrrl rolls out client for BlackBerry users | Pelago’s mobile social discovery service Whrrl ties the social networking concept into a map of your surrounding area, allowing users to rate and review local spots, and share their current location and status with trusted friends. While it... |
| May 27, 2008 | As iPhone Second Coming Approaches, Pelago Adds To Its War Chest | Last November, we reviewed the first product from Seattle-based startup Pelago – a mobile mapping service called Whrrl meant for sharing reviews of places and events with friends.
Whrrl feels very much like a dormant technology that, like o... |
| May 27, 2008 | Pelago and iControl first to receive iFunds for iPhone apps | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Nov 5, 2007 | Roundup: IAC to split, new Time Warner CEO, and more | Here’s the latest action:
1) IAC splitting into five companies
2) Sea change ahead for Time Warner
3) Google’s merger plans may be foiled by the EU
4) Synthasite launches website creation
5) Whrrl opens local opinion site
6) Internet users ... |
| Nov 2, 2007 | Whrrl: Map and Mobile-Centric Social Reviews | Sometimes products are easy to sum up in single sentences, sometimes they are most definitely not. Whrrl, a new site by Pelago, is one of those that eludes definition. Hence, Pelago’s need to describe it unhelpfully as “a seamlessly integra... |
| Oct 25, 2007 | Is Rummble the next phase in local reviews? | Chuck a stone into the UK startup scene at the moment and the chances of you hitting an entrepreneur peddling a site which allows people to share and rate things – anything in fact – in a local area, are pretty damn high. Let’s look at one ... |