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Urbanspoon, the location-based restaurant-finding app cross-bred with a slot machine, has just added the ability to add pictures and reviews to individual menu items. That also means you can see what dishes look like at particular restaurants, and see if they taste as good as they look. The app’s also available for iPad, Android, and…
Foursquare has just pushed a massive update to its iPhone app and the location-based service now includes the ability to add photos and comments to your location check-ins. The photos for the Foursquare iPhone app comes thanks to a partnership with Instagram, which is the hipster app of choice nowadays for sharing photos. The company…
A few weeks ago, Loopt was updated on iPhone with a new UI and geo-based texts, and on Tuesday they applied the same update to their Android client. A lot of the same features were there, like Ping to send texts to nearby friends and see where they are, notifications for when your friends are…
There was a bit of a false start with Google’s location-sharing service last week, but today Latitude for iPhone is now available to download for free. Google Latitude is a service typically bundled in with their mobile Maps app that uses a smartphone’s GPS unit to share your location with a set of trusted friends.…
You might want to call it the “Facebook effect,” as we expected the world’s largest social network entering the check-in space would kill some of the existing services. It looks like Brightkite may be one of the first victims, as it is killing its check-in service to focus on group texting. It’s not bad though,…
The check-in service Foursquare now has more than 5 million users but will having the early lead be enough to keep it ahead of the pack? According to Mashable, the company said: “Though there are over 5 million user IDs in the Foursquare community, our user IDs don’t necessarily match up to our actual number…
When it comes to check-in services, Foursquare and Facebook Places generally get more attention than Loopt, which was pioneering location-based social networking before it was trendy. Well, Loopt has just released its 4.0 version of its app for Apple iPhone and Android and the LBS apps features a revamped user interface and some cool geo-related…
Gowalla‘s check-in app for iPhone has just had a major update, the most prominent featuring being the ability to check-in and view check-ins from Foursquare and Facebook Places. There are a few other new features too, like a revamped user interface, spot prediction on check-in, highlights of the top picks in town, bookmarks for finding…
Poynt was one of our top picks for Windows Phone 7 apps at launch, and today the developers are expanding its already-great local search to include gas prices. Using your GPS or cell tower location, it’ll find the prices of all the stations nearby It’s only in the U.S. for now, but Poynt tends to…
Yelp isn’t going to be left behind when it comes to location-based deals, as the company has just introduced check-in rewards for publicly saying you’re at a restaurant, bar or other venue. Yelp added the check-in feature to its app in January, just as the hype around Foursquare began to grow. Since the launch, the…