At Points.com you can:

• track your balances and bonus offers in one place. Manage 100+ loyalty programs in one spot and see daily incentive offers.
• trade, exchange or buy to grow your balances faster. Post and accept trades, exchange between your own programs and buy more!
• redeem into PayPal or for gift cards from hundreds of retailers. Use your balances to reward yourself with PayPal credit, travel, dining and more!

Find coordinates using the name and/or address of the place.

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GPSvisualizer: visualize latitude and longitude coordinates.

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Batch Reverse geocoder.

Walgo is a free application that runs on your iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Symbian Smartphones. A brand owned by omnego.

So many items that you carry, you can now make mobile and always have them with you in your Smartphone:
Select an Add+Card from our growing collection of already created cards:
Looks identical to the actual physical card
Personalized for you – just like your physical card
Create your own MyCard using a selection of graphic backgrounds and custom text:
For completely free-form cards you design any way you’d like
Ideal for personal information such as passwords, health plan info, car license/registration, etc.
Once on your Smartphone, Walgo mobile cards can be:
Used in the physical and online world
Carried securely
Easily added or removed
With Walgo, checking out at the cash register or identifying yourself is quicker and easier than ever!

There are plenty of companies that are trying to digitize the loyalty card space. Punchd, which was just acquired by Google, lets customers accrue digital versions of buy-10-get-1-free cards. PlacePop also offers a similar application. Now SparkBase, one of the largest processors of traditional private label gift and loyalty card programs to the financial and merchant services industries, is launching its mobile version of loyalty cards.

Paycloud eliminates loyalty cards, allowing customers the option of waving a smart phone at a participating merchant’s countertop sensor to check in, redeem rewards and coupons, and track their loyalty account status. Launching initially at 55 local Chicago merchants, Paycloud is accesible via designated iPhone and Android apps.

SparkBase has integrated Zoosh, a NFC technology that doesn’t integrate a chip, into Paycloud. Any terminals or POS system that currently integrates with SparkBase’s processing network will be able to accept Zoosh-enabled transmissions by plugging in a sensor that retails for under $50.

It’s actually similar in functionality to Square’s recently launched Card Case. But Square’s feature is attached to the credit card reader that merchants use for transactions.

More info | TechCrunch

The newly launched SavingStar web, iPhone and Android apps reward consumers with cash back when they redeem paperless coupons, and the startup believes it can cut through the mobile coupon clutter with a product that mirrors how consumers purchase groceries on a regular basis.

Here’s how it works: A SavingStar user signs up and enters his or her grocery and drugstore loyalty cards. He can then browse ecoupons from more than 100 merchants and click on them to link them to loyalty cards. Then, when the customer buys the items in questions, the savings are posted to the SavingStar account.

The user can choose to deposit accrued funds to a bank account, transfer the money to PayPal or Amazon gift cards, or donate the savings to charity.

The SavingStar experience works via web or mobile, and it’s an approach that appears to be resonating with consumers. Just three weeks after releasing its mobile apps and website in late April, SavingStar crossed the 100,000-user-registration mark, the company told Mashable. It’s now also signing on upward of 10,000 new users per day.

Investors First Round Capital and Flybridge also see the value — perhaps less in ecoupons and more in the startup’s growing collection of UPC data — and have participated in both of SavingStar funding rounds. SavingStar has raised $10 million to date.

More Info | Mashable

Plyce launches loyalty card app.

More info | TechCrunch

Imagine the credit card of the future.

What would you like your credit card to be able to do? Tell us how your credit card will redefine aspects of your life in the future, enabling you do things you would have never thought possible. Think of it as more than just a payment tool and expound on its limitless potenial.

More info | eyeka

New ad products from Loopt and AT&T will attempt to push location-based coupons to your phone.

Specifically, location-based app Loopt announced this week that they are working on a new platform to push deals and coupons to your phone based on your location.

AT&T also just announced a new opt-in service called ShopAlerts, which sends offers to your phone based on your location, with participation from brands like K-Mart, HP, JetBlue, SC Johnson, and others.

Loopt founder and CEO Sam Altman on what needs to happen for services like these to take off:
1) They have to include limited-time, high-value offers. If you walk by a Starbucks every day and get offered 25 cents off coffee, that’s going to get old, quickly. But if once a month, you walk by a Starbucks and get offered a FREE coffee coupon that expires in an hour, that’s memorable, and could actually get you to redeem the offer.
2) They need to give control to users. People may want offers for some things and not others. Let users help define what kinds of offers they want.
3) Loopt won’t be using SMS to deliver the offers. Text messaging can be expensive and is a personal communication channel. Loopt will be using iPhone and Android “push” notifications instead.

More info | Business Insider

It’s no secret that more consumers today depend on their phone for virtually every aspect of their lives. Which is why mobile bar coding is one of the most direct links you can have to your customer. It’s a more personal and relevant experience, thanks to targeted offers, opt-in coupons, personal gift cards, loyalty programs and e-Tickets for travel and events—always accessible, right on their phone.

Motorola offers a range of mobile bar code-enabled scanners that work with CRM, inventory and e-ticketing systems, bringing even more value to your customer’s experience—and to your business.

Accept mobile coupons, gift cards, loyalty cards with ease—when your customers are primed to make a purchase
Manage mobile check-in and e-ticketing at airports and venues in a more affordable way, while protecting against fraud and scalping
Avoid issues like lost cards, coupons or ad circulars containing the bar code, since customers always have their phones
Participate in advertising and promotions, from location-based couponing, opt-in and partner marketing to downloadable discounts, special offers and free services
Support this paperless format, which not only saves money on printing and postage, but also prevents waste and is friendly to the environment.

More info: Motorola

Is it possible to read barcodes froma a backlit screen with a standard flatbed or handheld scanner? Read about it here.

More on this and Cardstar here.