A growing number of people are using  location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, or their French counterpart Dismoioù to tell the world where they’re visiting, and offering 'tips' about these places. Despite only being live in the UK for 5 months, PR & Marketing Pros have already started clamouring feverishly over this technology and it's very much a question of who will be the first UK brand to c...

I absolutely love this, as I can now easily remember the places I checked in but also take a look at my shout-outs! Here are the three easy steps you need to follow: 1)      Log into your foursquare account and head over to http://foursquare.com/feeds/ 2)      Copy the URL for your KML feed and paste that URL into the search box 3)      Add ?count=1000 (or more/less depending on your number of checkins) afte...

A friendly PR dropped me a DM on Twitter earlier this morning informing me that CNN have just launched a free version of their iPhone app for the European market today. The new CNN International app offers an array of features to check international and local news on the go including: Headlines: The first you’ll see on the iPhone app is the headline welcome screen. You can sift through news by top stories a...

Digital photography and photo-manipulation (aka photo-shopping) are now bona fide Twenty-First Century art genres. But what would you say if I told you that you can now create artwork with your iPhone or iPad? Better still, the artist who’s pioneered the iPhone-art-on-the-go genre, is 72 year-old (!!) critically acclaimed artist  David Hockney. After creating a number of pieces on his iPhone (using a nifty ap...