To one degree or another, everyone’s been an internet stalker at some point. But some apps and services make it crazy, crazy easy to exceptionally creepy. Our friends at Laptop Mag rounded up the shadiest — you know, for reference.
Hey, why not make an app that scrapes Facebook and Foursquare for the locations of nearby women and plonks them on a map for you? Make it free, but charge users for “energy” to engage in their super-stalker ways. No, this is not me having you on — Girls Around Me, an app recently pulled from the app store, is exactly this.
A lot of effort goes into manufacturing condoms that are comfortable and effective, but that doesn’t do anyone any good if no one wears them. So some well-intentioned goober has decided to slap QR codes onto condom wrappers so you can check in every time you, uhh, unwrap one.
Google is rolling out the ability to gain points when you check into Google Latitude, meaning you can be ranked on a global leaderboard. Yes, Latitude Leaderboard sounds very similar to Foursquare.
Foursquare’s undergone something of a Renaissance over the last few weeks — packing on new features like Radar and unlockable badge levels. Now, the social-mobile site is shifting its focus away from check-ins and towards exploration while optimising the site for tablets.
What do you do if you’re a major celebrity with a bunch of tech endorsement contracts that don’t quite line up with the advertising relationships implicit in the hit sitcom you’ve just signed up for? If you’re Ashton Kutcher, you try to subtly plug them anyway.
