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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

And, Street Bump is a mobile application that lets people improve their own neighbourhoods. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare. And it can be used for good.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. When to go to the application on your mobile, you open Facebook Places and according to where you are, the application will show a list of places near you. How does Places work?

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. When to go to the application on your mobile, you open Facebook Places and according to where you are, the application will show a list of places near you. How does Places work?

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OliveWoo – The First Location-based Date Service

Mindjumpers

It’s the first location based application for couples that analyzes your interests and mood to find the perfect date idea for you and your significant other. Similar Posts: Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins Facebook Introduces Geolocation Foursquare: How Does It Work?

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Location Based Social Media for Brands

Mindjumpers

For instance you can read about Nike’s iPhone application “True City” or loyalty and reward programmes initiated by Topshop and Tasti D-Lite. I found this presentation called ’Location-based social media for brands’ on Slideshare , which is compiled by Douglas Lin – a guy working with digital strategies in Singapore.

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How Glympse Can Track Your Friends

Ari Herzog

Mark Pack opines how Glympse could be used in political campaigns , as one instance of its utility: [I]magine a councillor doing a roving street surgery in an area and using the tool to make it easy for residents to find them. Related articles you may enjoy: 3400% Foursquare Growth Not Notable. And it’s not alone.

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The Social Media Monitoring Lighthouse – A Guide on What and How to Monitor

Razor Social

Campaign Analysis. When you create a specific campaign, you’ll want to isolate activity based on this campaign and report on everything within the campaign. Tag Lines/Campaign names – There may be specific words that you can track that are used quite a lot with the campaign. Media Monitoring.