Is Foursquare really stalled?

Lots of talks have been going regarding the new foursquare huge funding.

As most of people I have never been a huge fan of their Check-In or Mayor concepts but always thought the startup was way much better than that!

In the last 2 years, Foursquare founder has been promoting the company as  recommendation tool . 

Even if as a recommendation tool , it’s still not the perfect product but I feel like they may have a brilliant future in that direction.

An other huge point people seem to forget, the company founder has been extremely obsess with this  vision for more than a decade. People involved in Local know how hard it is to solve and if anyone might have a change to make Foursquare work that’s his own founder.

In conclusion , I  don’t feel like foursquare is stalled at all – They just talk less and get busy building their recommendation tool.

Yahoo acquires Summly!

A few months ago, I discovered the great looking news app – Summly- and just last week, I blogged about it .

Yahoo has already decided to acquire them! 

Every single tech news paper seems to talk about it  and here is an article from our favourite journalist about it. 

As a user and mainly as someone who were hoping to see the application getting more local – I can’t deny that I am hugely disappointed by the acquisition . 

Let’s hope that yahoo will do something interesting with this acquisition. 

The local news app to follow – Summly

It has been a couple of months I have been testing an interesting news app called Summly

As most of people who have been using it I have to say that their iPhone app is extremely well designed ( reminded me the first time I tried flipboard though). 

The young startup looks like is well funded and seems to having a momentum .

I feel like they have got a great opportunity to make a great local news app and wish they push in that road. 

 

Shop locally!

There are several initiatives to make people aware how important for the economy to shop locally!

We even have a local campaign to support the awareness.

I have seen many those projects like in Norfolk, Shropshire Hills, Hartlepool, Darlington, and many more,…

But recently I have been excited about makerhood.

I think at this stage, makerhood is focus in Brixton, Clapham, Camberwell, Herne Hill and Stockwell but my little finger tells me that they will add more locations to the list ( at least I wish it).

The community seems to have grown quite a lot recently and I must say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the designers .

Makerhood is definitely a project to keep an eye on…

Happy local shopping

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LOCALITEE is a hyperlocal website coming…

A quite long break , here I am with new great resolution for Localev community in 2013!

To nicely kick off this year! Here’s LOCALITEE

Localitee definitely looks like a great hyperlocal website to follow!

I quite like his neat design, It’s very clear what you get from the website and it cleary communicate his ambition.

Obviously, the website is at his infancy and you cannot really find any useful information from you current location but I like the option of trying with a given location and have a clear idea of what you might have in (hopefully) a near future.

Will definitely keep an eye on the progress of this great hyperlocal project.

A promising hyperlocal startup to follow!

Usually this blog tend to focus on hyperlocal activities happening only in UK but for once, I am going to make an exception for startups I think worth it.

Today, I happily discovered  a new hyperlocal startup (through a techcrunch article)with the ambition to unlock the holy grail of local. 

For all of you , passionate about this field , I think Urban Compass might be the one to follow.

 

Keep it local!

I just came across about this great website Shop in Streatham .

This is such a great project to help local retailers and at the same time that’s a great way to keep local people inform what’s going on in their local area.

As someone who is a big fan of hyperlocal project and as I live in the area , I just couldn’t resist to share it with you guys.

Let’s all keep it local!

 

Streetlife looks great!

A few weeks ago, I discovered streetlife and today I have finally opened my account.

After just a few minutes, I have to say that I was extremely impressed!

I am used to try many different local websites and most of time, it always takes a few hours or days,…to figure out how to use the product & the value of it. 

But in this case, it was pretty much instantly . Love it already!

Obviously, I need to spend more time using the product, to get a clear objective opinion of the all product.

Already excited by this startup and looking forward to meeting people behind it.

What happened at Local social summit 12 ( #LSS12 )?

Unfortunately I missed the great annual conference “Local Social Summit” but I have managed to collect interesting content from the conference.

Here are the links for you , local passionate to enjoy.

Reading all those links, I just cannot wait for Local Social summit 13.

http://www.slideshare.net/LocalSocialSummit/ten-big-trends-in-ten-short-minutes  ( Slides from Greg Sterling)

http://www.slideshare.net/LocalSocialSummit/new-digital-divide-polachek-london ( Slides from Neal Polacheck)

http://www.slideshare.net/berniehogan/networks-a-crash-course-at-local-social-summit ( From bernie Hogan)

http://storify.com/TheWebPsych/local-social-summit-lss12?utm_content=storify-pingback&awesm=sfy.co_dAzC&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_campaign=&utm_source=t.co ( Sorry I couldn’t find the full slides from TheWebPsych)

If you guys know more links, please share…