by Gloria Dufield, Marketing Specialist on May 14, 2012 at 2:21PM
Did you catch the New York Times Saturday? If not, you missed this great article. In it, social networking site Nextdoor tells how they are using Maponics Neighborhoods to let people connect with neighbors online (while also maintaining a comfortable level of personal privacy). Read the full article here: Meet Your Neighbors, if Only Online
We often say how inspired we are by what our customers are doing. This is another great example! We’re happy we can play a role in helping people feel a greater sense of community.
Interested in learning more about how social networking companies are using culturally relevant boundaries to help people connect? Download this (free) article which appeared in GeoWorld magazine “Where Are Your Friends? Social Networking in Social Spaces”.
by Johanna Hunter, Product Manger on April 17, 2012 at 9:07AM
We wanted to point you to an interesting internal project from engineers at Foursquare using Maponics Neighborhood Boundary data. Engineers matched 1,500,000,000 check-ins globally to the neighborhoods in which they took place. Using the resulting data, they determined the top categories based on location check-ins in each neighborhood and created a profile that reflects how people work and play in that neighborhood.
Algorithmically, they were then able to compare neighborhoods across different cities. For example, they determined which three neighborhoods in San Francisco were most similar to New York City’s East Village based on top check-in categories.
Want to know the three neighborhoods in San Francisco most similar to the East Village? Get the results and learn more at Foursquare’s Neighborhood Experiment.
Visit our Customer Use page for more interesting uses of neighborhood boundaries.
