Raz Schwartz Ph.D.

Senior Insights Manager
Innovation Product Area Lead @ Spotify

Tag: Gowalla

  • Mid Term Elections Meet Location Based Services

    The US mid term elections are already over. Now, when almost all media attention is gone, I think it is a good time to review the role taken by location based services in this round of elections. Since LBSs were only at their very early phase of deployment during the last elections, it is interesting […]

  • How Facebook Places will bring location based services to the mainstream

    It has been a week since Facebook announced the launch of their new service, Places. In a nut shell, Places brings the integration of location into our Facebook accounts and displays a Check-In notice on our wall, just like a status message. The service has launched gradually throughout the days and now more and more users can use this […]