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Quite a while back, we described Google Latitude and discussed the changes made to the application since it launched in 2009. We also talked about how it was competing with check-in services like Gowalla and Foursquare. Back then, check-ins were just starting to grow in popularity. Now, according to a survey conducted by the Pew [...]

How often do you rate and review places you’ve been? When you do review places do you prefer to do it while you’re there or after you’ve had the full-on experience? The Google Places Blog posted a little how-to video that serves as a quick demo for those who use the iPhone app for Google [...]

A recent post by TechCrunch shows how Google Places is incorporating Yelp reviews into their iPhone app.
Rather than rehashing the post or getting into rules, what is considered public domain, copyright laws and all that fun stuff — I want to know what you think about it. Is Google Places violating their own rules [...]

Maybe it’s because my city, Austin, was one of the lucky cities chosen to be part of the Google places campaign to get local business attractions noticed on a larger scale … but I have to say: I love what is happening with Google places.
If you don’t know already, you should know that the [...]

Google introduced Hotpot last November as a separate product from Places, which didn’t make sense to me. It seemed to go hand-in-hand with Places (or like it should go hand-in-hand with Places), but like many of Google’s offerings – it was segmented. Maybe, if their products were better integrated with one another, they wouldn’t have [...]

In March, France’s data privacy regulator fined Google 100,000 Euros ($142,000) for its practice of collecting private WiFi data through their Street View throughout Europe. Google claimed that this was a mistake and that it was not intentional.
Although this was the first time any country called Google out on data collection using WiFi, legal [...]

About a month ago Google launched their Hotpot marketing campaign here in Austin. Portland was the first city where they teamed up with local businesses to promote their services to customers by using Google Places and Hotpot technology.
Google has given local businesses posters to hang in their front windows, which name the business as “Recommended [...]

Google unveiled Hotpot in November. Since then, they have made some changes that are integrated into Google Places, Google Search and Google Maps.
If you haven’t already heard, Hotpot reviews from your friends will be incorporated into Google’s search results. The benefit to you is that the place results will still be sorted by relevance and if a friend has [...]

It’s becoming more and more difficult to keep up with all the new software apps. I’m going to be caveman about it:
Google Honeycomb = mobile operating system created in response to Apple’s iPad, which leads in the tablet market.
Google Latitude = mobile software application powered by Android, created to compete with other check-ins like Foursquare.
It’s [...]

I recently wrote about the new Google Tags service being offered in a few select markets – now Outrank.com reviews the nationwide launch of Google Tags, allowing customers to highlight any part of their listing in the search results.
Outrank.com Reviews: Google Coupons
Google Coupons have been around for a while, but not very visibly, as [...]