Twitter's Mobile Location Based Service: Twitter Place

It's Monday! Do you feel refreshed? Although it rained cats and dogs during the weekend, never feel down! Start you day with a big smile:) Let's start our journey of the week!

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Last week, we have talked about mobile location based services such as Foursquare or Loopt. Indeed, mobile location based services are in the spotlight of customers and companies. Although Foursquare is a front-runner in this industry, a number of other mobile location based services are being launched, making this industry highly competitive. And, it seems like the competition will get fiercer as Twitter also launches its own mobile location based service, Twitter Place.

Twitter announced that its new service will build a cooperative system with Foursquare. Unlike Fourquare in which you only could locate yourself in terms of latitude and longitude, Twitter Place allows you to add restaurants or stores as new places. After adding the places, you can send tweets to your followers. Basically, it is like a check-in system in Foursquare.

 

What's more special about Twitter Place is that you can search tweets that are related to the place you are now in. As you can see in this photo, if you search Burlingame, CA, you can see tweets related to Burlingame, CA.

Twitter Place has been launched in 65 countries. You can download Twitter Place apps if you are using iPhone or Android. Will Twitter Place succeed in gaining market share this industry? Let's wait. Only time will tell.

Smart Phone Generation

I took English literature exam today. I think I did pretty well:) I kept saying that I might not be able to post articles, but here I am again... Maybe I am addicted to posting articles on my blog.

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XPERIA

iPhone 4G

Galaxy S

   Today's topic is a smart phone. Nowadays, we are inundated with smart phones that compete with each other fiercely in the market. iPhone of Apple, Galaxy S of Samsung, XPERIA from from Sony and so on. People say that the smart phones are changing our society. My question is how did change our lives? What impact did they have on us? Let us talk about that today.

 

   Experts say that most people will have smart phones in their hands by 2013. Smart phones are currently widely distributed among people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Thanks to the craze with smart phones, software industry is now booming. App stores are new business models that were introduced in accordance with the development of smart phones. Smart phones also being connected to social media, allowing people communicate with each other whenever and wherever they are.

 

   Smart phones are fundamentally changing the lifestyle of our generation. That is why experts say we are smart phone generation. We can reach abundant information and social networks real-time. We can experience reality without the limitation of time and place. Experts say we are always "ON" thanks to the smart phones. Smart phone generation is smart. Thus, traditional marketing methods can no longer appeal to this smart phone generation.

 

   Smart phones liberated people from physical limitation. People can always connect to the Internet if they want to. They also prefer mobile social networking services which are more powerful at distributing their messages. They rely more on the on-line information than the off-line one. They mash up media, merging different media into a new media. They like mobile games that are light to play and can enjoy with people from all generations. These are some of the characteristics of the smart phone generation.

 

   As you can see from the aforementioned examples, smart phones are changing the society on a more fundamental level. If you do not have a smart phone with you, you should consider buying one for your future.