Geolocal. Geosocial. What the hell?
Recently, Dan Holden did a series on how apps are changing the face of the web which came right at the time I was considering a series on that very thing, but a bit more focused. He's right and we need to consider how these technologies are going to affect our lives because in the modern world, the user has a greater stake in the outcome than ever. So today we start looking at on geolocal, or geosocial apps. These platforms are the latest darlings of the tech world. VCs are throwing money at them like frat boys throw at strippers, the press can’t stop writing about them and, at this writing, there are more than 100 of them launched worldwide. The biggest name, at the moment, is Foursquare , but Gowalla and Booya are making inroads and Twitter , Google and Facebook -- the gorillas of social media -- have launched their own initiatives. It’s not really a new phenomenon. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley launched a primitive version in Dodg...