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  • Sonar, You Should Prioritize Graph and Proximity Alerts via Klout Scores

    Sonar, You Should Prioritize Graph and Proximity Alerts via Klout Scores

    Ximena of Sonar recently posted a question on the Sonar facebook page asking for feedback on whether Sonar users want to know about their friends nearby. My thoughts: Yes, I definietly want to know which of my friends are nearby – but I already know that from other more established apps, namely Foursquare and Facebook.…

  • Ark People Search in Beta – People Search Meets Social Network Ubiquity

    Ark People Search in Beta – People Search Meets Social Network Ubiquity

    Today TechCrunch reported on Ark People Search, which recently got funding through yCombinator. Combining multiple social networks and online datasources, Ark lets you search for anyone who has a presence on the internet – both via publicaly accessible data as well as private social network you have access too. And there’s really no better time…

  • Invasion of Omnisocial Geolocation Apps!

    Invasion of Omnisocial Geolocation Apps!

    With SXSW happening this week, the battle for app of the year begins. This year, I think the focus is going to be location aggrigating apps – apps that pull in geolocation data from multiple social networks, and combine them in a common map and feed. Here are a few top apps out there –…