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Start-Up Aims to Be a Hub for Location Data

A new start-up plans to offer a low-cost way for developers to get in on the location-based application craze.
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SXSW: See All Austin Check-ins in One Place

Cliqset has produced this nifty web app that aggregates status updates and check-ins sent from people in and around Austin to all of the different major location-sharing services — Gowalla, Foursquare, Twitter, Brightkite and of course Cliqset.
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Brightkite 2.0 For The iPhone Now On The App Store

Brightkite was one of the early players in the location-based social networking game, which is a space that is growing rapidly. Originally a TechStars startup, Brightkite was bought in April by Limbo and has been flying a bit under the radar as a fresh crop of location-based services have popped up including the new favorite, Foursquare. A few weeks ago, the startup launched Brightkite 2.0 for the web, which was chock full of new and noteworthy features. Today, the much-awaited
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Clarke lets you update FireEagle from within OS X

Filed under: Utilities , Macintosh , Web services , Yahoo! , Open Source , Social Software , web 2.0 Yahoo’s FireEagle project has long been a great (albeit under-used) service to let you share your location with other websites. Services such as Dopplr , Brightkite and many others can all update & read your location and use the service to display location-based data. On the iPhone, there’s plenty of free applications that update FireEagle such as yofe , but what if yo
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