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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