I pinged Jared Tame soon after I heard about GraffitiGeo being in the ‘09 Y-Combinator class.  The product sounded cool; I played with it and liked it; and Jared and I quickly struck up a fast friendship online.  I think I’m even considered the NYC GraffitiGeo super user. Teng Siong Ong from the GraffitiGeo side got Bill hooked up with [...]

Sam’s awesome look at 200,000 FourSquare checkins via SocialGreat. His full post The pdf

The location based service future will look more like email (Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) than micro-blogging (Twitter as winner take all).  I believe there will be numerous “winners” as individuals find the benefits of sharing and playing with location. I think fragmentation is the likely outcome for a few key reasons: A significant portion of the experience and value [...]

Another nice shoutout…. foursquare: + The API. Both the Android app (which is amazing, right?) and SocialGreat were built on top of our API (currently in private beta). Soon we’ll open this for everyone to play with and we’re looking forward to seeing what people come up with. – dens / naveen / harryh

Nice shoutout to Socialgreat (my project w/ @lessin and @bpiel) in the Union Square Ventures blog post announcing their investment in FourSquare

Brightkite blog post on SocialGreat incorporating it’s data!

When we rolled out Brightkite data on SocialGreat a week back it was just at the city level.  I’m now proud, and wowed by @bpiel, to report that SocialGreat comingles and merges venue-level data from Brightkite and FourSquare.  This is especially great in cities like Denver, where Brightkite is really strong.  It should come as no surprise that Brightkite HQ [...]