Comments on: Location-based apps: Flook, Gowalla, Foursquare http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/12/31/location-based-apps-flook-gowalla-foursquare/ Livin' the dream Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:06:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jane http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/12/31/location-based-apps-flook-gowalla-foursquare/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Jane Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:12:33 +0000 http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/?p=371#comment-428 Yeah, something to consider and we also have something brewing with a partner but it's early stages yet. We are pretty keen on the kind of performance you only get from a native client though. Getting that swipe through image-heavy cards as smooth as it is was not an easy task. That flick-through UI is pretty central to flook's proposition as the location browser. Yeah, something to consider and we also have something brewing with a partner but it's early stages yet. We are pretty keen on the kind of performance you only get from a native client though. Getting that swipe through image-heavy cards as smooth as it is was not an easy task. That flick-through UI is pretty central to flook's proposition as the location browser.

]]> By: jedc http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/12/31/location-based-apps-flook-gowalla-foursquare/comment-page-1/#comment-391 jedc Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:24:12 +0000 http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/?p=371#comment-391 Hi, Jane. Great news about the upcoming release!<br><br>As for getting it working on Android, perhaps there's a way of creating a skeleton version as a web application (like Gowalla did)? From what I understand it's really easy to access GPS and other phone services from within the browser. (But I can also understand not wanting to create multiple interfaces for multiple platforms!) Hi, Jane. Great news about the upcoming release!

As for getting it working on Android, perhaps there's a way of creating a skeleton version as a web application (like Gowalla did)? From what I understand it's really easy to access GPS and other phone services from within the browser. (But I can also understand not wanting to create multiple interfaces for multiple platforms!)

]]> By: Jane Sales http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/12/31/location-based-apps-flook-gowalla-foursquare/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Jane Sales Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:46:51 +0000 http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/?p=371#comment-390 Thanks Jed for a great review. Wanted to let you know that a release coming pretty soon will let you search for flooks in a more targetted way, and find particular people and categories. You'll even be able to search remote locations.<br><br>iPhone-only is also something we want to address, but won't be coming as quickly unless we find some keen Android developers who will port for stock :-) Thanks Jed for a great review. Wanted to let you know that a release coming pretty soon will let you search for flooks in a more targetted way, and find particular people and categories. You'll even be able to search remote locations.

iPhone-only is also something we want to address, but won't be coming as quickly unless we find some keen Android developers who will port for stock :-)

]]> By: Peter Clark http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/12/31/location-based-apps-flook-gowalla-foursquare/comment-page-1/#comment-367 Peter Clark Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:39:43 +0000 http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/?p=371#comment-367 Great post Jed. You should enable the "Reactions" setting in Disqus so the discussion on Hacker News gets copied over :)<br><br>Here's my two cents fwiw: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024714" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024714</a> Great post Jed. You should enable the “Reactions” setting in Disqus so the discussion on Hacker News gets copied over :)

Here's my two cents fwiw: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024714

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