Sat.Mar 19, 2011 - Fri.Mar 25, 2011

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My foursquare stalker: Chapter 2

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On Wednesday, I had my first experience with a foursquare stalker when a stranger called me at the Great Bear Cafe in Los Gatos, California after I did a 4sq check-in. I considered the whole thing harmless if not a little strange. Today, it happened again when I checked into a.

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Is the Twitter RT irrelevant?

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Do we still need to extend the quaint courtesy of letting people know where we found a link from another Twitter user? I think the retweet, aka RT (in both its informal and official forms), has run its course. There are now over 200 million Twitter accounts (not all active), with.

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Death on foursquare: final chapter

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As I guessed in my first post, my recent foursquare "stalker" experience was a PR stunt for ifidie.net, a Facebook app that allows users to create messages that will be distributed when they die. The caller who spoke to me when I was at Great Bear in Los Gatos unfortunately.