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September 1, 2011 11:55 pm GMT

Gootip Turns Twitter Into A Location-Based Q&A Service; Launches iPhone App, APIs, and More

135386v2-max-250x250Gootip, the location-based Q&A startup from France, launched in May to take on Hipster (we think, as Hipster is still stealth) and other sites like it trying to make Yahoo Answers, for example, a valuable, realtime service. Gootip was founded by PriceMinister alumni Mathieu Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Thierry Sebba, and operates out of a small garage in the South West of France. I've seen the pictures, and these guys are bootstrapping all the way, looking like the Jobs and Woz of Southwestern France.But Gootip, in spite of a questionable name, is trying to separate itself from other Q&A services out there, like LocalMind for example, by not only enabling users to ask and answer questions in context of a particular city, town or specific location, but by going a few steps farther.

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