March 2012
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September 2010
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ME: MyTown well ahead in the social location wars,... →
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%)
July 2010
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CheapAir.com: Five Must Have Blackberry Travel... →
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.
June 2010
11 posts
148 Apps: buzzd Harnesses the Swarm for Real-Time... →
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.”
Adotas: Mehta Has Always Been Buzzd On Mobile... →
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.
NomadPlan: Buzzd App Aggregates Venues On Twitter,... →
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.
TechCrunch: Buzzd Aggregates Check-Ins From... →
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.
PocketBerry: Buzzd v3 Rolls Out for BlackBerry –... →
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.
Berry Scoop: buzzd for BlackBerry and iPhone... →
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.
InvestorSpot: Buzzd Aggregates Foursquare, Gowalla... →
Based on geolocation, buzzd will analyze the check-ins closest to you and take your location-based mobile experiences to the next level.
recombu: Buzzd sorts check-ins to find hot venues... →
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.
IntoMobile: buzzd v3 comes with aggregated... →
Popular city guide buzzd got a major update – buzzd v3 now aggregates check-ins from popular social networks like Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, BrightKite, Loopt and others; giving users a complete view what’s going on in the city in real time!
ComputerWorld: 10 essential BlackBerry apps for... →
Make an unfamiliar town come alive with Buzzd, a free app that acts as a kind of Digg for local attractions. Users vote the places and events they go to up or down and post comments, which are integrated with information from Twitter and other social networks to give an idea of what places people are talking about.
Mobile Marketer: Intercontinental Hotel Group... →
Buzzd has an Android, BlackBerry and iPhone application that features a buzzdmeter – a real-time measure of activity at bars, restaurants and nightclubs in a user’s city.
April 2010
2 posts
MobileBurn: Our 10 favorite BlackBerry... →
Buzzd has a personal tale to it. I was walking around NYC with my girlfriend looking for a wine bar and decided to give Buzzd a whirl. It’s a location-based-service application that looks for restaurants or other things to do in your current area. The app helped us discover one of our favorite wine bars, which we’ve visited time and time again. Restaurants are displayed with a clean...
DigitalBeat: Placecast helps location services... →
Several location-based services, including WCities, Urban Mapping and Buzzd, have agreed to test trial the API.
March 2010
1 post
Mobile Behavior: Buzzd Includes Check-In Services... →
With its upcoming update, Buzzd will begin aggregating all location check-in services including Twitter, Yelp, Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite.
February 2010
2 posts
Valentine’s Day BlackBerry App Recommendations →
iMedia Connection: The rising stars of mobile... →
Marketers may be interested in aggregators like buzzd, which combines reviews and ratings from buzzd members with feeds from Twitter, Gowalla, Foursquare, Loopt, and Brightkite, plus content from partners that include Zagat, Flavorpill, Citysearch, Metromix, and Upcoming.
January 2010
3 posts
Mobile Entertainment: The 50 most innovative... →
16. Buzzd: Riding the twin hype-waves of social location and real-time, Buzzd is one of the most appealing location-based apps around.
TechCrunch: Buzzd Brings Its Social City Guide To... →
The app’s “buzzdmeter” gives you a real-time measure of activity at popular bars, restaurants and nightclubs in your city, users can see the places with the most real-time activity (the buzz) in their city, neighborhood, and even activity within walking distance or the block they’re standing on.
PocketBerry: New Buzzd app update launching... →
Now with buzzd you’ll have the ability to socialize. And by socialize we mean you’ll be able to see what others have buzzd in the feed section and view pictures and profiles of other buzzd members. In addition, you can add and invite your friends from any email address including Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL.
December 2009
2 posts
PC World: Twitter's Mixer Labs Buy Puts... →
With buzzd, you can track what other users are saying about a particular place on Twitter to get a feel for the hottest places in your area on any given night.
Mobile Marketer: Google's Android growing by leaps... →
The buzzd Android application has all of the features of its iPhone counterpart, including the buzzdmeter, a real-time measure of activity at popular bars, restaurants and nightclubs in the user’s city.
November 2009
1 post
The iPhone App Review: Find New and Popular Places... →
Developed by Buzzd Inc, Buzzd is a new app that uses the iPhone’s GPS to pinpoint your location and shows you the top buzzed, or ranked, places or events in your area.
October 2009
14 posts
Thrillist SF: Best of the Best →
Emailed to New York: Buzzd iPhone App
Fast Company: HashCeratops Makes Twitter's Search... →
Nihal Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Buzzd, told FastCompany.com the point is to make Twitter a more useful local tool. “For Twitter users, information about specific venues would be more easily searchable,” he says. “For example, if I want to search tweets from the bar Jack, if I search ‘Jack’ it gives me a lot of noise. Hashceratops would suggest searching for...
TechCrunch: HashCeratops Aims To Formally Add... →
HashCeratops (yes, that’s really the name) is a group being led by Buzzd, the service that finds hot places in cities based on other location services. One main feed Buzzd looks to for its data is the Twitter stream. The problem is that without a standard for naming locations, it can be hard to parse tweets to find out exactly where people are. Hence, HashCeratops.
Frat Fury: buzzd →
Sure, the iPhone has a ton apps to help you out if you are in a new city and trying to figure out where the best place to have a good time is, but what if you don’t have or just plain don’t like the iPhone? Buzzd is free and works with anyone who has internet on their phone, and includes real time pictures and reviews of all the cool places in town. Now you can get drunk and pretend to be someone...
Cool Material: buzzd →
Whether you’re new to a city or getting tired of your usual scenes there’s no shortage of night life review apps for the iPhone, but what about the rest of us? Buzzd helps you discover the coolest bars, clubs, restaurants and events with real time reviews and pics so you can see what’s happening now.
CrackBerry.com: buzzd, a social city guide on your... →
The buzzd mobile application is just a part of the buzzd solution. Whether you’re going to their website on your computer or BlackBerry, or using the mobile app, buzzd is a go-to guide to what’s buzzin.
Thrillist: Buzzd iPhone App →
This new app not only provides brass tacks info on nearby venues, but also rates their real-time happeningness by pulling info from Twitter and other Buzzd users; individual tweets/buzzes can also be inspected for editorial commentary, because what better way to learn if a spot’s hopping than reading “Some ‘hole next to me is tweeting at the bar”.
Miami New Times: Give Good Miami Buzz on Your... →
What’s the difference between Buzzd and regular status updates? For one, if you join their Ambassador program, you earn points for prizes after a period of time. There’s no cash involved, and no pressure, you just tweet the same thing you normally would.
NJ Star-Ledger: Let your smart phone’s apps do the... →
With the iPhone app, you can let Buzzd determine where you are, then provide tips about nearby nightlife. Tap on spots with a “high buzzmeter,” to use Buzzd’s terminology, and you’ll find out what people are saying about the spot.
Gizmodo: The Week in iPhone Apps →
An old BlackBerry classic, buzzd meters the amount of activity at local establishments, according to other buzzd users, and tells you where the most people are, and what they have to say about it.
Cult of Mac: Buzzd iPhone App Tells You What’s... →
The realtime city guide Buzzd has just released a slick and easy-to-use dining-and-drinking app that tells you what’s buzzing right now.
IntoMobile: Buzzd Released on iPhone →
Buzzd, a great little Digg-style location-conscious mobile application for venues and events, has found its way to the iPhone. Buzzd lets you rate up, rate down, comment and upload pictures on where you’re spending your nightlife.
VentureBeat: Top Blackberry app Buzzd brings live... →
Buzzd, a city guide that’s one of the top 10 most downloaded apps on the Blackberry, is launching an iPhone version today that pulls real-time updates from nearby restaurants and bars.
TechCrunch: Buzzd Is An iPhone App Built For Party... →
With Buzzd, which is launching its free iPhone app today, you simply load the program and it will bring up a list of venues close to you that are currently popular based on people talking about them on Twitter and Buzzd. It also uses some location data pulled from Twitter. Right now, that data is pulled from users’s Twitter profiles, so it is imprecise, but with the Geolocation API (which may be...
September 2009
4 posts
Belfast Telegraph: Getting what you want, even... →
Buzzd is a service that aggregates user input around nightspots - both directly from users as well as open sources like Twitter. Their ‘Buzz Meter’ feature allows you to see where the best night is happening in real time, localised to your position.
Lassi with Lavina: buzzd is Buzzing →
Check out this scenario: you’re in a new neighborhood, you’re hungry and don’t know where to go. You don’t want to overspend and you want to ensure that the restaurant you visit is not over-crowded. Well, if you have a cell-phone with you, the magic word is “Buzz’d!”
5 Free BlackBerry Applications you should download →
Buzzd is an incredible location-sensitive city guide and social network for the mobile device.
August 2009
3 posts
PocketBerry: Buzzd surveys its BlackBerry app... →
‘An amazing app for BlackBerry’
Gizmodo: Cellphone Users Are Some Rude-Ass People... →
The buzzd one also says that 60% of cellphone users have drunk dialed, and 68% have drunk texted.
Mashable: Survey: Two-Thirds of Mobile Users... →
Buzzd, a location-based social city guide and application for mobile phones, is actively interested in your mobile lifestyle.
July 2009
3 posts
Blackberry Gets buzzd in Canada →
Buzzd, a location-sensitive city guide and social network application for BlackBerry smartphones is now available in Canada.
BlackBerry LBS app buzzd now with Canadian locales... →
buzzd is now optimized for Canadian locales as well as made available to BlackBerry Storm users.
Buzzd Location Based City Guide Now Available in... →
Our friends north of the border can now enjoy Buzzd…
June 2009
1 post
Up to Mark: Top 10 BlackBerry apps free for... →
Buzzd not only does it look incredibly slick, it’s one of the most useful apps in our arsenal, combining the listings of Zagat, Citysearch, Upcoming.org and Flavorpill into one local super search.