Gillmor Gang recording live 1PM Pacific... - RealTime Network

We are close to being live now. Just a couple more minutes. - Robert Scoble

http://twitter.com/dens Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare is our special guest. - Robert Scoble

I'm still not clear on what's good about this... - Cliff Gerrish

please ask Dennis when Foursquare will roll out in europe - HansVanRock

Cliff: there are three things that I get out of Foursquare: 1. I see what my friends are doing. That lets me meet them in real life and keep track of what they are doing. 2. It's a game, so I can play it to compete with my friends. 3. I can get tips from my friends for the location that I currently am at. - Robert Scoble

Hans: it just launched in London last week. - Robert Scoble

Robert, the tips seem good. Do you need to check in to get them? - Cliff Gerrish

Checking-in is like closing the "sales" loop for venues. FourSquare is a disruptor in mobile marketing and users are happy and engaged.... - Antonella Stellacci

Cliff: yes. Because checking in is how you tell the system where you are. - Robert Scoble

Robert: London i don´t consider as europe, it´s an island lost at sea ;-) - HansVanRock

re new places, check their blog http://foursquare.tumblr.com/post... for a list of new cities - Antonella Stellacci

Can you privately check in, or is it alway a public gesture. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff: yes. You can keep your location secret. - Robert Scoble

HansVanRock: They also have Amsterdam. - 321

321: who will be brave enough to check in at a coffee shop? :-) - Robert Scoble

:-)/ - HansVanRock

Geolocation, augmented reality, etc. Foursquare seems like a simple entre to this world. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff: it looks simple, just like Twitter looks simple. But that's deceiving. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I meant 'simple' in the most complimentary way. Simple works. - Cliff Gerrish

Regarding real people in augmented reality, check this out: http://blog.brightkite.com/2009... - Martin May

Mobile advertising is a multi-billion dollars business. ....even Twitter with geo-location API and Facebook mobile will want a share of it.. - Antonella Stellacci

Loop and latency are also key elements. - Cliff Gerrish

Hey, Gillmor, nice camera angle of your studio! - Robert Scoble

Are these features or companies? - Cliff Gerrish

widgets will soon start talking to each other and exchanging data. that's when user constructed solutions start getting interesting. - scott anderson

Are there enough economics in a distributed widget mesh? - Cliff Gerrish

widgets will be front end for services. that's where the economics come from. - scott anderson

If you wrap up 5 widgets in a package - high risk, great leverage, low economics - Cliff Gerrish

If you are dependent on more systems, doesn't that increase your risk? It seems like it's a downside unless you have failover to other services - Martin May

Do we really want our phones making decisions for us? No matter how much context they have... - Cliff Gerrish

Thanks for adding San Antonio, @dens! - Robert J Taylor

Cliff - they are making suggestions, not decisions. - Rob La Gesse

A better frame might be, here are the place gestures your social graph has generated. Does that suggest anything to you... - Cliff Gerrish

that's super smart :) - Antonella Stellacci

Have any houses been broken into based on negative location information? - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff: I heard of one, because of a Facebook post (or it was just a bad coincidence). But I've also heard of thieves getting caught because of Google Latitude. - Robert Scoble

As long as thieves are also on foursquare and check in as they are robbing your place -- I guess that's ok... - Cliff Gerrish

No 4square in Reno yet. So there must be a population threshold for cities covered at this point? - ursi

Cliff: if someone tries breaking into my house while I'm not here they might be a little shocked. :-) - Robert Scoble

Homeless people will "check in" the easy mark homes for their roaming buddies... - Robert J Taylor

Aren't explicit place gestures fictional? That's their important social information content... - Cliff Gerrish

I'd love to be able to check in on the Gillmor Gang. - Robert Scoble

Sounds a lot like MS Mesh... - Cliff Gerrish

Right...but the tough part is "verifying" that a person is actually at a certain place. You can make it difficult to spoof, though. - Martin May

We're working on some interesting stuff with QR codes to do that. - Martin May

Identity becomes a real key here. - Cliff Gerrish

Good thoughts...totally agree with @dens - Martin May

Steve - I like the new "studio cam" view - Rob La Gesse

Do we run into the Facebook Beacon problem here? - Cliff Gerrish

Steve - I like the studio cam view, too: http://img.skitch.com/2009101... (color me green for jealousy!) - Robert J Taylor

yes, i also liked the cam angle: http://twitpic.com/lnkdg ..... great show Steve & guests! - HansVanRock