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Foursquare, Yelp, and Gowalla are all mobile apps that track location-based check-ins, often with added info like reviews, pictures, or status messages, but the problem is that they’re all pretty compartmentalized; most folks only really need one check-in network, and it’s never guaranteed that their friends are in the same one. Luckily, FourWhere has used APIs from Foursquare, Yelp, and Gowalla to put all of that geotagged information on one Google Map.
FourWhere doesn’t have a mobile app just yet, but that doesn’t seem like a long ways off. Check-in applications are becoming pretty popular lately, and with Facebook, Buzz and Twitter getting involved with place relations (as opposed to just GPS coordinates), the real social butterflies will want to post to multiple accounts at once without needing a whole home screen-worth of apps. Buzzd is currently trying its hand at this very concept, but I think they could use a bit of competition.
Check it out at FourWhere.com.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
