Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Foursquare’s Yelp problem (they just got time to figure it all out) — This week I downloaded a new Yelp app onto my iPhone. In it Yelp included a copy of Foursquare’s badges, which reward people for checking in frequently. Sometimes you might get a swarm badge for checking into someplace …
Robert Scoble / TechCrunch:
Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos — Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He’s one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 friends on Foursquare.
Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Cat, Meet iPad. [Video] Update: Now with Dog — Today in technology news: cats — or at least one cat — are apparently very intrigued by the iPad. Eric Rautio’s cat, Iggy, is entranced by the iPad apps Noby Noby Boy and Magic Piano [warning: Apple Store links], so much so that he gets into playing them, with his paws.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is 2011 like 1994 for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and the Web? — Fact: In 1994 I thought Apple was going to own it all. By 1999 most magazines thought it was dead. — Fact: In 1992 Pointcast shipped. By 1999 it was dead. — Fact: In 1994 Microsoft was beta testing a system called “Blackbird.”
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google +will+ save Flash, a developer who uses it says — I just recorded a 45 minute conversation on my iPhone while we sat on the deck at the Half Moon Bay Ritz with Luke Kilpatrick about Flash, Silverlight, Palm Pre, and a few other topics, but mostly focusing on what will happen to Flash.
Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
Guardian’s iPhone App Sold 9,000 Downloads In First Two Days — Guardian.co.uk’s new iPhone app got some favourable reviews upon its release on Sunday night. Even more favourable – it shifted 9,000 in the first two days, Guardian News & Media told us. — At £2.39 a pop in the UK …
