Sonar Nabs Funding From Bing Fund: Can It Overcome Ambient Discovery Hurdles?
At last year’s SXSW conference in Austin ambient networking apps were all the rage. The concept is simple: the apps…
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Echolocation Adds $200K to Build Out a Hyper-Local Version of Twitter
Humayun Khan
January 18, 2013
NYC-based Echolocation, a location-based microblogging mobile app, recently announced that it closed a $200,000 round of seed…
With 3M Users, Banjo Launches Version 3.0 to Take Ambient Social Discovery Global
Humayun Khan
November 15, 2012
BetaKit covered Redwood, CA-based Banjo earlier in the year when it reached the one million user mark in nine months, faster…
CanWeNetwork App Applies Ambient Discovery to the LinkedIn Audience
Erin Bury
September 25, 2012
Today Austin, TX-based CanWe Studios announced a new app, CanWeNetwork, that takes the idea behind ambient discovery apps…
The Future of Ambient Social Location Apps
Darrell Etherington
May 18, 2012
Ambient location apps were a hot commodity at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, but they’ve failed to really…
As SXSW Approaches, Event Networking Apps Go Head-to-Head
Darrell Etherington
March 7, 2012
Event networking is bound to be a hot topic at SXSW Interactive, which kicks off on Friday. There hasn’t been a super-effective…
Plancast Hits the Deadpool After Battling Busy Event Promotion Space
Erin Bury
January 24, 2012
If someone had asked entrepreneur Mark Hendrickson his own plans three years ago, chances are he wouldn’t have put ‘entering…