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A comment on YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality.

Re:YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash... by mrjbq7 on Friday August 14, 2009 @09:43AM (#762976)
Why did you steal your name from GeoGraffiti?

http://www.geograffiti.com/voicemarks/3923/

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Re:YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash... by emmett on Friday August 14, 2009 @01:51PM (#763481)
I don't know the GraffitiGeo guys, but I really doubt they "stole" the name. I think we're seeing convergent evolution at work here - it's a logical combination of words to describe "leaving digital marks on the real world".
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Re:YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash... by aranganath on Friday August 14, 2009 @02:44PM (#763574)
I left my thoughts on this here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763559

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