Fwix to push the "social geographic markers" feature

Tencent Science and Technology (Kathy) Beijing time March 8 news, according to foreign media reports, super Local location directory (hyperlocal places directory) Fwix in its iphone and the new version of the Android app added social geographic markers ( geotagging) function. Fwix was launched as a super local news aggregator last fall, but recently the company has moved its business to a hyper-local directory.

Fwix captures content for neighborhoods and businesses, including 30,000 blogs and news sources, status updates for Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Buzz and Brightkite, Flickr, Smugmug, and Picassa photos with geographical markings from Groupon, LivingSocial and Mobilespinach local promotions from Eventbrite, eventful, Zvents, StubHub, Ticketmaster events, reviews from Yelp, Citysearch, OpenTable, Yahoo! Local and Zagat, and official data from Spotcrime, Fixmystreet, and Seeclickfix.

Fwix this new iphone and Android app can provide users with information about businesses and neighborhoods that allow you to see all the social information associated with a location on your phone, including tagged check-in, geo-tagged twitter messages, comments, activities , local news and blog posts.

Fwix new iphone and Android apps show information about businesses and neighborhoods

Fwix organizes various kinds of information based on location, hoping to become a local data platform. Many publishers use the company's APIs, including NBC, At&t Interactive, the New York Times Company and Viacom (BET.com). Fwix is currently operating in 7 countries and 61,000 cities; It defines 87,000 neighbourhoods in the United States alone. Fwix says its content and platform attracts 3000多万个 independent access users every month.

There have been some mergers and acquisitions in the field of hyper-local journalism, and Fwix's approach to providing data as a platform has been praised by the industry. Some industry insiders estimate that the start-up may be bought by a media giant within a year.