Of those who have, 56% had used MyTown, with Loopt in second place on 12%. Foursquare and Gowalla polled 8% apiece, followed by Yelp (6%), Buzzd (5%), Brightkite (4%) and SCVNGR (1%)
Blackberry’s first city guide that displays places real-time popularity based social media sites like Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp & more. Get the low down on what someone thinks of a restaurant you were thinking of checking out or find out if a bar you were planning to visit is too crowded or lame.
buzzd measures places with a “buzzdmeter,” which tracks the “buzz” each location has received on various social networks. The app then checks your location, and shows you nearby places with the highest buzz. These can be restaurants, museums, or shops; in New York City, for example, the Museum of Modern Art was “buzzing.”
Through incorporating data from its own half-million users as well as the aforementioned social sources, the Buzzd app shows consumers the popularity of and energy circling local venues via the Buzzd meter.
Luckily, buzzd has a great way to bring together all of the location based app in one app to not only show you what your friends are doing, but to show you where the hottest spots are in your area.
The integration with these services makes a lot of sense for Buzzd, as the app essentially tells you where the most frequented places are within your location.
Buzzd seems like a valuable aid in keeping up with important events in an area as well as knowing the activities of friends in the area. The buzzdmeter keeps up with generally popular locations while specialized functions also allow buzzd to inform the user of events important in his or her social circle.
Users of buzzd can track where the “buzz” in their city is happening by being presented with meters of the local hotspots, which are determined by the before mentioned social services.
Now another location-based service, Buzzd, has hit on the sensible idea of aggregating data from as many social location apps as possible, and using it to work out what places are hot in a given city in real-time.
