地理位置服务山寨还是创新

Geography Location Service Copy Show or Innovation Show

2009年3月Foursquare在美国上线，用了不到半年的时间就吸引了百万级用户，并且以每天上万用户递增。不久，众多COPY者便追随而至。

On the U.S.SNS website Facebook,customers could find nearby Mcdonald’s rapidly, and Mcdonald’s also could deliver its fancy food or special meal to nearby Facebook’s customers.This is the application of geography location service,a fever word of Internet in year 2010.In China,along with the comprehensive application of 3G and Intelligent Mobile, and improving by giant in communication and internet industry,the geography location service is emerging silently.On 31st May 2010,ganji.com has gained about $20 million from Nokia Growth Partners and BlueRun Ventures.The proceeds has been used in wireless internet layout immediately.LBS(Location Based Serivice) is one of the key issues,which is a kind of mobile geography location services. "LBS is information’s basic dimension,which has great application and business value." The analyst of AnalysysInternational Yanghui REN denoted,"now the internet service has already deepen gradually.Internet has been changed from a tool application to a comprehensive life application platform.Along with the farther development of internet and rapid development of mobile internet,the applications which represented by location service will be deepened in customers’ daily life,and will be the emphases of next phase of development." However,to Foursquare the earliest ancestor in geography location service,and those epigones,it is unknown that this is a copy show of innovation show.