Archive for October, 2010

Location is the Future of Social Networking

The Irish Times ran a piece on the growth of location-based social networking (geosocial networking), covering Locle, FourSquare, Gowalla, Facebook, Google Latitude and Twitter.

…”Dublin-based Locle actually takes a different approach than the manual check-in: the app runs in the background and detects when you are near someone you know. “We built Locle as something that happens while you’re busy doing something else.”…

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1029/1224282229992.html