The New Foursquare, Pitchfork Gets Scroll-y, Digital Marketing and Politics, Men Who Shop Online, Redefining “Users”

We’re seeing the beginnings of frictionless, passive sharing; but it’s the next wave of frictionless sharing – harnessing mobile, geolocation and multi-device technologies – that will really change the game.

Big Data and the Big Apple, Exobrain, New Responsive Design Deliverable: The Style Prototype, Incandescent Cloud Installation, Opening Ceremony Magazine App.

Prior to this year’s Thanksgiving break foursquare published an infographic documenting the holiday travel patterns of its users. They collated US check-in data from late 2010, producing a map of activity that highlights road, air and rail travel across the United States.

Average Person Inundated with 174 Newspapers Worth of Info Daily, How Unleashing A Gang of Geeks Benefits Business, The Hectic Schedule of a Social Media Manager, Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom’s 30-Second Rule for App Success, The New, New Agency Model.

Tree of Codes and the Web It Left Behind, Viber For iPhone Aims To Rival Skype’s App, Nike Launches Open Source App To Encourage Sustainable Design, Krrb, Foursquare on Brink of Adding Photo Sharing, Opens API To Public, Twitter Used By 8 Percent of American Internet Users.

Subzin, Gowalla 3.0 Unifies Check-Ins, Places with Facebook, Twitter, and yes, Foursquare, Cyber Monday Biggest Online Spending Day in History, Google’s $6 Billion Bid for Groupon Seen as a Bargain, Groupon Goes 2.0, For PayPal, the Future Is Mobile, Memolane, Gri.pe.

Two months ago, I was a Foursquare addict. From the G train shuttle bus to the Duane Reade to the 88th police precinct, I checked in everywhere. However, because of the lack of real-world benefits and limitations in its game mechanics, I seldom check in to places anymore.

As Whrrl launched the third version of their iPhone app yesterday, how exactly should we view it? Is it simply another service in the rapidly crowding Location Based Service (LBS) marketplace or does it offer enough unique services that it is significantly differentiated?