Booyah’s MyTown Goes Global

Booyah’s MyTown , a location based service that recently launched a feature allowing users to check in to products via bar code scans , just announced an expansion to the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. MyTown is the first location based service to support global check-ins through Google’s Places via the Google Maps API

Boom! Foursquare Crosses 2 Million Users

It appears that Foursquare has just crossed the 2 million users mark this morning. The location based social network has been growing fast, adding 100,000 users per week.

SXSWi 2010: Brightkite’s Brady Becker and Martin May Demo Multi Check-in App

My dialogue with those at the forefront of mobile, location based social networking continues here at SXSW Interactive 2010 . Brightkite founders Brady Becker and Martin May were kind enough to take a moment and talk with me about some current and unreleased features of their service/software called Brightkite

SXSWi 2010: Q&A with Gowalla Co-founder/CEO Josh Williams – Pt 1

In an effort to sort out the state of the “Location War” going on here at SXSW Interactive 2010 , I have been lucky enough to chat with several people behind the scenes of these mobile location based services. It’s funny to me calling the competition a “War” as everyone with whom I have spoken seems incredibly mellow and down-to-earth but there is a potential definitive moment going on here for that industry

Location-based Virtual Goods Up Next From Little World Gifts

Little World Gifts , the mobile virtual goods startup, has signed WWF as its first major brand partner. That’s WWF-UK , the world-renowned conservation charity, not the wrestling federation with the same initials.

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