Patrick Powers

There’s a scene in the 1983 classic “Mr. Mom” when new stay-at-home dad Jack Butler attempts to drop off his kids at school. It’s a simple task, really, but as his kids and others are quick to point out, he’s doing it wrong. When it comes to location-based services and how we employ them in [...]

It could be easy to get glum on the future of Facebook check-in deals — so few businesses seem to take the time to set them up and, in return, so few people use the service to claim them. So why am I still keen on the idea of setting them up in higher education? [...]

There are five location-based social networks loaded onto my iPhone, but the days may be numbered for all but one of them. Who wants to check in five times anyway? Gowalla last week unveiled a version of its location-based service that allows users to check-in with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Tumbler — all through the [...]

There are more than half a dozen location-based applications clogging my iPhone as I’ve spent the past year trying to figure out which one, if any, would take hold in a university setting. Facebook Deals changes everything. Facebook Deals, announced on Wednesday, would allow vendors to offer deals to those who checked in using the [...]