Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

I have been thinking about writing this for the past few weeks and my buddy Om gave me the shove to do it yesterday with his post “FourSquare’s Crowley on Facebook, Check-in Fatigue & the Copy Cats” This post is absolute killer to write given my past positivity and possible giddiness on location based services. [...]

I think my stance on vouchers and location is well known, I am delighted to see it coming to Ireland and now its possible to market your venue based on location using Foursquare. Imagine being able to compete against the “coffee shop” around the corner by offering a free “Top-Up”. So how do you do [...]

I work with a bunch of guys who constantly slag me off for talking about the hottest new thing, they generally give me a hard time about “twitter” “foursquare” and a whole bunch of other apps so you can imagine I was a bit slow to introduce them to Chatroulette. Well you can imagine my [...]

When Twitter make an announcement its time to wake up and examine the space even more closely but this weeks post of Location Location Location by twitter will change the LBS game. With twitter now over 20 million users location services become the absolute honeypot. I wrote about the value of location based services recently [...]