Meet Spot: Location for members only
A banker friend of mine used to roll around town with one of those black AMEX cards. I’m not sure what he had to do to get it, but it…
Lawrence Coburn
Lawrence is the founder and CEO of DoubleDutch, a platform as a service that powers mobile, geosocial productivity apps for customers like HP, Cisco, and Adobe. Follow him @lawrencecoburn.
Stories by Lawrence Coburn
The Era of People Recommendations
Recommendations are a big deal in the online economy. On YouTube, video recommendations account for about 30% of all views. Some have speculated that up to 35% of Amazon’s sales…
The Godfathers of Geo
When you think of the pioneers of geosocial services, who do you think of? Loopt, Foursquare, and Gowalla were certainly very early to launch mobile, social, location aware services. Some…
Sonar: True Geosocial Networking
Imagine heading to a party, or a conference, or a bar and getting a briefing before you go of the people who will be there, and how they are connected…
Facebook for the Enterprise
With consumer startups getting most of the press, it’s easy to forget that there exists an enormous enterprise software market prime for disruption. How enormous? Gartner estimated that the overall…
The Unlit Social Graph
A few years ago, it was not uncommon to hear search people talk about The Dark Web (also known as Dark Net or the Deep Web). Basically, the Dark Web…
The Rise of Place Based Networks
Flashback to 2005. I’m sitting on my couch with a friend playing with Meetro – a location based IM service that helped you IM with people around you. Even as…
Is Symbian in Play?
We seem to be inching towards a major Nokia announcement. In a stunning memo leaked to Engadget, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop likens the Finnish company to a North Sea oil…
Verizon Shafts Existing Customers
By most accounts, the arrival of the iPhone to Verizon has been a resounding success. Record breaking sales, solid reviews, orders going out on schedule, and a general sense of…
LinkedIn: the Next Big Gaming Platform
If you haven’t yet played around with Cubeduel, do it now. It won’t make you any smarter, but it’s an oddly entertaining way to browse through your coworkers from years…
Momentfeed Geolocation Analytics
Over the years, analytics has proven to be a pretty good business. Whether it be web analytics services like Comscore and Omniture or social media analytics services like Radian6 and…
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Grindr takes Geosocial Vertical
One of the many unanswered questions in the nascent landscape for geosocial services is whether it will be winner take all. Is Facebook (or some other company like Foursquare or…
Instagram and Facebook
One of the topics that keeps coming up in my office is around exactly what makes Instagram so awesome. I mean, photo sharing…. really? Wasn’t casual photo sharing won by…
Check In with your Instagram Photos
If you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably heard the whispers. “Yeah, Foursquare is growing like crazy, but their retention rate is lousy.” “Facebook Places has already won.” “Normals are never…
2011: The Year of the Check-In
In our recent interview with GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold, Alex made an interesting point comparing the Check-In gesture used by services like Foursquare, GetGlue, Meebo, SCVNGR, Gowalla, Fanvibe, Yahoo! Sportacular,…
