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Gift Rocket! The Fastest Way To Send A Friend Dinner & Drinks!

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

I recently got an email from Urban Daddy telling me about a cool new smart phone technology called Gift Rocket.  It’s really easy to use. It is basically an online gift card service. You put in your favorite bar or restaurant in your respective city, your friend’s email address, how much money you want to send them, a note like Happy Birthday, and hit send. It’s that easy. They have a cool little graphical representation on their website showing a monkey using it. To redeem your Gift Rocket on your smart phone you simply pull up the email you get from PayPal, you put the funds where you would like to use them, and off you go. If you don’t have a PayPal account, PayPal will auto-create one for you on the fly. Here is their FAQ section to learn more. I thought it was a great idea that I wanted to share with the ONIT community. You can follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/GiftRocket

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Foursquare Ups The Game

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Foursquare just upgraded with some brand new features that just made going out a far better online social experience. This round of major updates focuses in on specials. Businesses now have the opportunity to offer the following specials:

SWARM SPECIALS: When a determined number of people all check in at a certain time, a given special is offered. Great for enticing large groups to make way to the local bar and all check-in.

FRIENDS SPECIALS: Similar to ‘Swarms’ if you check-in with a certain number of friends, a business offers you the listed deal.

FLASH SPECIAL: Be one of the first 10 (or otherwise determined number) to check-in to a location and you’ll get the deal.

NEWBIE SPECIAL: New to a location? Businesses can offer you a hookup for your first time check-in.

CHECKIN SPECIAL: Same ol’ story. Same good deal. Check-in, get a special.

LOYALTY SPECIAL: Like a punch card at a coffee shop, every 5th (or determined) check-in gets you a special.

MAYOR SPECIAL: Give your Mayor some love. Specials for your most loyal customer.

Foursquare Deals

Foursquare Deals

Theses new special options are integrated into an updated mobile application that shows all specials on a map within a decided upon range. Foursquare just moved beyond being a fun game with badges and mayorships. Foursquare is the new deal-maker. And business stand to gain a lot by being the early entries into the foray. Foursquare users are searching their application maps for the deals. Are you on it?