We just “quietly” launched Planz.com today, a bold attempt to deliver the only end to end social planning site. Yes that’s right – something completely different…
Check out Planz.com today and you can book your trip to Jolly Ole’ England and possibly hunt to the old Monty Python crew.
You can also sign up for the VIP mailing list to stay in the loop as we launch some pretty amazing new features.
Foursquare is making another move to become one of the preeminent social media platforms in the market by its recent launch of their very own App Gallery. Similar to Twitter and Facebook, Foursquare has been gaining significant momentum on its way to becoming one of the few leading platforms on the web. There are over 500 Foursquare apps out there, based on the number of registered tokens.
Currently, Foursquare is only highlighting 10 apps to show a proof of concept for how the gallery will work. They’re asking all developers to submit their app through this page so they can showcase all the various apps built on top of Foursquare.
Apps themselves have their own pages in the App Gallery. For example, here’s the page for Mob Zombies
, an iPhone game that is built on top of Foursquare. Apps get descriptions and screenshots, similar to Apple’s iTunes store. The pages also feature Facebook’s new Like button to easily share. And, of course, there’s a big button to “Try this application.”
When I started this blog back on September 25, 2009 my first post was a simple “welcome” message with a YouTube video clip produced by Erik Qualman author of the blog called Socialnomics. Interestingly enough, YouTube subsequently removed that video for copyright issues. The video was titled Social Media Revolution, and it was a series of very interesting facts and stats that demonstrated the massive change social media is making on our lives. A good introduction to the reason I started this blog.
Well Mr. Qualman is back at it again with his latest creation, Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh). In this latest creation Qualman has included some pretty interesting and powerful social media stats, such as;
Foursquare has just expanded its offering for businesses enabling them to easily offer promotions and view detailed analytics of the patron traffic. The location-based social network that has taken the web by storm has launched a do-it-yourself tool for businesses to claim their venue and leverage their new business dashboard.
Now all unclaimed venue has a link asking, “Are you the manger of this business?” The link takes you to a page prompting business owners to claim their Foursquare venue and manage their account in three simple steps.
Businesses that claim their venues on Foursquare get a dashboard with realtime stats on number of check-ins, times of day people check in, most recent visitors, and most frequent visitors – along with additional analytics and more to come. You can also manage your offers and badges people get when they check in at your venue.
Hot off the Internet (ok, more like a week or so ago), our friends at G4TV Attack of the Show preview the much anticipated Halo: Reach. Check it out here:
Will this new Halo release rival previous? A special shout out to Patrick Klepek :)
Foursquare announced today a new partnership with Bravo TV which will integrate a number of Bravo TV shows with the site. The partnership is designed to engage viewers after they turn their TV’s off in leveraging Foursquare’s rapidly expanding location-based gaming presence. Foursquare will begin integrating various show personalities and their city tips, as well as a Bravo badges, into the game experience.
This new deal will include the introduction of a number of new Bravo-themed badges to Foursquare will also turn some of Bravo’s top personalities behind its hit reality TV shows like The Millionaire Matchmaker, Top Chef, The Real Housewives, Top Chef Masters and Shear Genius into content creators. These personalities will share their tips and to-do’s with users effectively adding a plethora of new city-specific content to venture.
Location-based game and social networking company Gowalla has announced its push for the holidays with their “10 and a half days of Christmas” game (because the 12 days of Christmas is too predictable). Foursquare competitor Gowalla recently closed a Series B investment round from an all-star Silicon Valley cast earlier this month in an effort to unseat Foursquare in the buzz-worthy location-based game/social network race.
While we have covered Foursquare in the past, we haven’t yet profiled Gowalla’s service. Similar to Foursquare, the Austin, Texas-based Gowalla game is all about checking into various places, sharing them with your friends and competing for prizes. Gowalla does have a slightly different spin on their game platform such as enabling virtual goods at different location points. You can see a brief demo of the service in action below:
San Diego, CA-based Good Game Productions just announced their launch to build a new generation of games for Facebook and iPhone platforms. Founded by gaming industry veteran Grantley Day, the company plans to focus their on MMO (massively multiplayer online) games for the two social media platforms.
Good Game Productions say they plan on using virtual goods model of social gaming that has shown so successful for companies like Zynga and Playfish. Players will be able to get up and running and playing for free but will be able to accelerate their characters development by buying items – think Farmville’s market for new farming items. Here is a brief demo the company has posted on its YouTube channel:
MMO games have been quite big in the PC gaming world for sometime but have had difficulty making a successful transition to social networks. Looking to break that trend, Day and his small team – two full-time and four part-time employees – have embarked on a rather challenging journey.
Social gaming is clearly becoming the story of 2009. It seems that users everywhere are flocking to social games on Facebook and MySpace to burn countless hours of gameplay. Social gaming is big business, and the leader of this emerging industry so far is Zynga – publishers of Farmville, Mafia Wars and Fishville. Today, Zynga announced it has surpassed its 100 millionth member and is rumored to be valued over $1 billion. Not bad for the 2 year old gaming startup.
The San Francisco-based company has become the biggest developer on Facebook and the undisputed leader of the emerging social games market. What’s even more remarkable is the speed of growth for the newest games. For example Cafe World, launched in September, has grown to over 9 million daily active uses. That means in a given day, 9 million users will log into the game. Fishville, launched earlier this month, already has 6 million daily active users.
Only a few days after their announcement of a new API, Foursquare is at it again. The location-based mobile application and game has announced 50 more cities to its highly addictive and rapidly growing service bringing the global total to over 100 different cities worldwide. A little over a month ago, Foursquare announced 15 new cities to its service all of which were in North America. The 50 new cities announced today definitely have a more global theme to the Foursquare service.
The list of the new cities are outlined below. As you scan through the list, you quickly see the significant part of today’s announcement. This time, the highly popular service includes cities from South America, Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. This rapid global expansion, super addictive gameplay and intensely dedicated user base has led some anoint Foursquare as 2010′s next Twitter (via Mashable).
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