http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://tech.peekbase.com/the-great-location-land-rush-of-2010 http://tech.peekbase.com/the-great-location-land-rush-of-2010#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/the-great-location-land-rush-of-2010 December 24th, 2009 Back in November, at our Realtime CrunchUp event, I sat on the geolocation panel with members of Twitter, Foursquare, SimpleGeo, GeoAPI, Hot Potato, and Google. At one point, I raised the question if location was going to be the next battleground between startups large and small, much like social identity plays (Facebook Connect vs. Google Friend Connect) ... 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Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/more-people-around-the-world-get-their-news-online-from-google-news-than-cnn/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/causeworld-launches-do-good-deeds-simply-by-walking-into-a-store http://tech.peekbase.com/causeworld-launches-do-good-deeds-simply-by-walking-into-a-store#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:20:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/causeworld-launches-do-good-deeds-simply-by-walking-into-a-store December 23rd, 2009 Six months ago I wrote about a startup called Shopkick (it was then called MOBshop). The company won’t disclose much of what their eventual product will be, but they’ve attracted some of the most high profile investors in Silicon Valley: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Reid Hoffman. Here’s what CEO Cyriac Roeding ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/causeworld-launches-do-good-deeds-simply-by-walking-into-a-store/feed 0