mobile 5M Monthly Check-Ins Later, GetGlue Comes to Android Check-in apps are all the rage in the mobile space, but these days users aren't just checking into business and landmarks. Apps like Miso and Facebook's recent acquisition Hot Potato, which allow users to check-in to movies, TV shows, books and other activities, have been part of the fuel behind the recent check-in craze. Another player in the… Mobile Chris Cameron View comments
Cloud Computing Weekly Poll: Customers Don't Get Cloud Computing but Who is to Blame? In the analyst world, a lot of time is spent on the phone with people in IT who pay lots of money to get advice about the important technology matters of the day. Apparently, Gartner has been spending a lot of time on the phone with people who want to know more about cloud computing. You'd expect that these are in-depth, informed conversations… Alex Williams View comments
News Yahoo Kills SearchMonkey, Rolls Back BOSS, Says YQL Will Live One year ago, Yahoo announced that it had signed a deal to replace its own search engine with Microsoft's Bing - but the big question for us was what that meant for all the incredible search-related programming infrastructure Yahoo makes available to outside developers. Today Yahoo began offering the beginning of an answer to that question. In… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Apple Shopkick Brings Real-World Incentives to the Check-in Game Shopkick, a new location-based service (LBS) app for the iPhone, is launching today and it's taking LBS software in a direction we've been expecting all along. Rather than rewarding users with virtual goods or contextual information like user reviews, it goes straight to the heart of the matter - kickbacks, discounts, and real-world incentives… Mobile Mike Melanson View comments
Blogging MOG isn't Just a Streaming Music App: It's a Music News Destination MOG, an up-and-coming streaming music service, has just launched its own editorial hub called the MOG Music Network. This online news source goes hand-in-hand with its music listening service, the latter which is available both online and as mobile applications for the iPhone and Android. The MOG Music Network (MMN) includes music-related news… Play Sarah Perez View comments