http://tech.peekbase.com Peek technology in one base Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:40:21 +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/ccbetty-launches-iphone-app-for-to-make-sense-of-your-email/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/intelligent-and-insightful-mobile-movie-reviews-the-empire-movie-guide-app http://tech.peekbase.com/intelligent-and-insightful-mobile-movie-reviews-the-empire-movie-guide-app#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:20:04 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/intelligent-and-insightful-mobile-movie-reviews-the-empire-movie-guide-app December 22nd, 2009 Empire is a venerable British movie magazine that has amassed quite a library of film reviews since it was first published more than 20 years ago. Their reviews tend to be aimed at the enthusiastic film buff, rather than academics. I have always found the reviews entertaining and a worthwhile read. Now, the ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/intelligent-and-insightful-mobile-movie-reviews-the-empire-movie-guide-app/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/the-twitterfriendfeed-connection-goes-realtime-once-again http://tech.peekbase.com/the-twitterfriendfeed-connection-goes-realtime-once-again#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:00:09 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/the-twitterfriendfeed-connection-goes-realtime-once-again December 22nd, 2009 It’s been a sad few months on FriendFeed following their acquisition by Facebook. Despite assurances that FriendFeed would not die, activity has dwindled and many users have moved on. While the service was still working, there was a fairly major glitch that made it much less compelling: Tweets, the main source of ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/the-twitterfriendfeed-connection-goes-realtime-once-again/feed 0 http://tech.peekbase.com/the-world-is-flat-for-twitter-as-in-global-growth-has-stalled http://tech.peekbase.com/the-world-is-flat-for-twitter-as-in-global-growth-has-stalled#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:00:07 +0000 admin http://tech.peekbase.com/the-world-is-flat-for-twitter-as-in-global-growth-has-stalled December 22nd, 2009 Twitter’s international traffic continues to flatten as the microblogging site’s number of unique visitors flattened in November. Twitter saw 60.3 million unique visitors in November compared to 58.3 million unique visitors in October. Though the site saw a rise of 2 million visits globally, this slight uptick in visitors only represents a ... Read More]]> http://tech.peekbase.com/the-world-is-flat-for-twitter-as-in-global-growth-has-stalled/feed 0