Industry News & Views

I gotta give credit where credit's due. I've long been a critic of Foursquare, insisting for years now that the app was useless. People would say, "No, I like that it shows my friends where I am." My reply to that was always, "If you want your friends to find you, text them."

With Time Machine, all of your check-in data speaks for itself.

All of that said, I was pretty impressed when I saw Foursquare's new Time Machine dashboard (sponsored by Samsung -- great move on their part, by the way, to brand the interface). It's awesome.

Nicole Giannopoulos of Retail Info Systems News wrote an article on Monday (June 10) heaping praise on AT&T's flagship store in Chicago.

Mashable's Lauren Indvik wrote a great article yesterday on how New York City's trendy SoHo district houses a couple "retail store(s) of the future": BaubleBar (pictured above) and Warby Parker, jewelry and eyewear e-tailers respectively, recently opened physical stores in SoHo.

Fast Company published an interesting article today, which considers the implications of Google Glass in different venues where data, privacy, recordability and access to instant communication might be particularly sensitive -- like casinos, hospitals, movie theaters, to name a few.