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Power Your Crowd - NEW Pocketcrowd 1.3 Released - We’ve Integrated Facebook and Twitter to Complement Foursquare and Yelp!

Today we pushed a new Pocketcrowd service release that integrates Facebook and Twitter into Pocketcrowd (www.Pocketcrowd.com) to complement our Foursquare integration and Yelp! listings currently available.

Now you can conduct real time check ins and future check ins simultaneously across all of your favorite social media services including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Yelp!

We’re pumped about this release because we wanted to make Pocketcrowd more powerful for you and easier to use across your social stream. We want you to “Power Your Crowd” with Pocketcrowd.

This release also marks the beginning of a very busy alpha prototype period for the Pocketcrowd team. We’re in an aggressive rapid development period now and we’ll release various updates in the coming months. We’ve got plans for features like calendar/events, mobile client app, social gaming, and real-time data/service integration.

Most importantly, we want to know what YOU think.

Tell us if you see a service glitch or bug, tell us about it on our Facebook Discussion Thread:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=161432063882016&topic=368

Tell us what you’d like to see from the Pocketcrowd service? How can we make Pocketcrowd better help you communicate with your friends? Let us know on  www.Twitter.com/Pocketcrowd, www.Facebook.com/Pocketcrowd, and her on our Tumblr.

Finally, tell your friends about Pocketcrowd! Help us spread the word!

THANKS!

The Pocketcrowd Team

A Preview of What’s Coming Next for Pocketcrowd

• New Services Integrated - Facebook and Twitter are being fully integrated into Pocketcrowd. They will join Foursquare and Yelp! in the Pocketcrowd service. This will be very cool.

• Profiles - Pocketcrowd users will be able to create personalized Pocketcrowd profiles in addition to inviting and making new friends.

• Events - Pocketcrowd users will be able to create unique events at real locations where friends and users can check in to in the real world.  
  

We Want Your Pocketcrowd Alpha Feedback!

The Pocketcrowd alpha is public!

This is what Pocketcrowd looks like on your mobile:

This is what Pocketcrowd looks like on your computer:

Because the Pocketcrowd alpha is public, YOU the public will have the opportunity to direct the app’s development roadmap.  In short, WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK! We want you to tell us how the service works, or doesn’t, and how we can make it better. Share your comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc. We want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly so we can make the Pocketcrowd app work better for you. 

So here’s what to do:

FIRST, be sure to bookmark http://pocketcrowd.com on your mobile or PC and log in with Foursqaure. Then use Pocketcrowd to do real-time checkins and future checkins. 

SECOND, please share your feedback on the “Pocketcrowd Quality Assurance” thread on our Facebook Discussions Tab at:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=161432063882016&topic=240

We will try our best to incorporate your ideas and respond to your comments as quickly as possible.

THIRD, stay in the loop with the latest Pocketcrowd alpha news by “Liking” Pocketcrowd on Facebook, following Pocketcrowd on Twitter, or following Pocketcrowd on Tumblr. 

THANKS!

The Public Pocketcrowd alpha is LIVE!

The public Pocketcrowd alpha is LIVE!

Our first push for the Pocketcrowd alpha is the launch of our new look and feel with Foursquare and Yelp! integration.

Check it out at:

http://pocketcrowd.com 

and bookmark it on your mobile phone or computer!

In the coming weeks we will integrate Facebook Places. After the Pocketcrowd. Facebook Places testing period is complete, we will integrate Gowalla into Pocketcrowd. Plus we have a few additional surprises in store.

At the end of the alpha, you will be able to access and view most if not all of your location-based social media tools in a single app - Pocketcrowd.

Each step of the way we want your suggestions and comments along with your help in identifying Pocketcrowd bugs, errors, and technical glitches.

When you do encounter one, please post details on our Facebook Discussion tab at:

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=161432063882016&topic=240

Let us know what you think either via:

Facebook 

http://www.facebook.com/Pocketcrowd

Twitter

http://twitter.com/Pocketcrowd

Tumblr

http://pocketcrowd.tumblr.com/

Thanks!

The Pocketcrowd Team

Public Pocketcrowd Alpha Launches This Week

We’re excited to announce that the Pocketcrowd app is starting it’s public alpha version this next week. We’ve been very encouraged by the prototype testing and consumer usage that started mid-way through Summer 2010. Plus there has been a numerous major geo-location developments since we started the prototype with Foursquare, the launch of Facebook Places, the rapid rise of “online deals” services and advancements with other apps and services, etc., etc.

It’s early but we are very excited! 

While we can’t share Pocketcrowd alpha details just yet, we can let you know that it will be launched sometime this next week and then updated on an ongoing basis. 

Check out our Facebook page for an exclusive sneak peak image:

http://www.facebook.com/Pocketcrowd

Please note that you the public will have the opportunity to direct the app’s development roadmap during the Pocketcrowd alpha.  In short, WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK! We want you to tell us how it’s working or how to make it better. Share your comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc. We want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly so we can make the Pocketcrowd app work better for you. 

So here’s what to do:

FIRST, be sure to bookmark http://pocketcrowd.com on your mobile or PC and log in with Foursquare. Then use Pocketcrowd to real time checkin and future checkin.

SECOND, once the Pocketcrowd alpha starts, please share your feedback on the “Pocketcrowd Quality Assurance” thread on our Pocketcrowd Facebook Discussions Page at: http://www.facebook.com/Pocketcrowd?v=app_2373072738. We will try our best to respond to your comments as quickly as possible and incorporate your ideas.

THIRD, stay in the loop with the latest Pocketcrowd alpha news by “Liking” Pocketcrowd on Facebook, following Pocketcrowd on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Pocketcrowd, or following Pocketcrowd on Tumblr at http://pocketcrowd.tumblr.com/.

Stay tuned!!

Pocketcrowd Cheating…We Don’t Allow It!

Last late last month @pg4sqday via Twitter mentioned to @unbcedstudent, “I really hope not-the API in general opens a lot up for cheaters, I really hope #pocketcrowd doesn’t make cheating accessible.”

Well Pocketcrowd won’t allow cheating and we make all efforts to prevent abuse. If you think you see odd activity or suspect cheating is going on, let us know via Twitter or Facebook and we’ll look into immediately.

Here’s a personal example of how exact our future checkins feature is and how it works to prevent abusing the future checkins feature. Last week I went to the US Open Qualifiers in Flushing Meadows, Queens. I did a Pocketcrowd Future Checkin in the morning as I planned on arriving around 12:30pm. I was delayed and didn’t arrive until 1:30pm or so. I checked my Twitter stream and I was not checked in because my Future Checkin time had elapsed. Then I went ahead and did a Pocketcrowd check in and enjoyed some tennis.

People will always try to game or cheat a system. Unfortunately it’s the ugly side of human nature. If you see it let the Pocketcrowd team know via Twitter and we’ll do everything we can to stamp it out quickly.

Facebook Places Launches - Some Early Thoughts

Last night the Pocketcrowd team was split up across the country. We all “watched” the big Facebook Places announcement via twitter and online news coverage as it happened.

Obviously we’re very interested in getting under the hood with a look at the Facebook Places API and seeing what’s what…when it’s available. Then we’ll react accordingly and let you know what we’re thinking and planning.

In the meantime, here are links to a few interesting articles about from last night’s announcement. We’re retweeting our favorite tweets from last night so check our stream at http://twitter.com/Pocketcrowd. Follow us there and on Facebook at http://Facebook.com/Pocketcrowd.

Facebook Places Articles:

http://gigaom.com/2010/08/18/facebook-launches-places-product/

http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/08/18/foursquares-dennis-crowley-still-deciding-on-facebook-places/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter-publisher-main&utm_campaign=twitter

http://blog.booyah.com/booyah/2010/08/booyahs-incrowd-takes-locationbased-social-games-to-the-next-level-with-facebook-places.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-implications-of-facebooks-places-2010-8

http://aboutfoursquare.com/facebook-launches-places-with-foursquare-as-a-partner/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20014071-36.html

http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20100818/facebook-places-review/

http://www.digidaydaily.com/stories/facebook-places-faces-privacy-concerns/