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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Geolocation applications allow you to share your location with other people and associate that location to restaurants, events, and other real-world venues. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago. But I returned to the Foursquare community last winter and now share my check-ins on a daily basis.

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Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account

Ari Herzog

I saw that you checked in there on Foursquare, Shea,” he said. I’ve read articles about burglaries and stalking thanks to Foursquare, but because I only occasionally link my check-ins with tweets, I figured I was being responsible. You probably shouldn’t be telling people where you are on Foursquare, should you, Shea?”

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Check the application developer’s site for compatibility. They may function differently on other platforms.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. It will be highly interesting to see how location will be used from now when knowing how comprehensive Facebook is.

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Feature Friday: Is Social Networking Making Us Less Social?

Ari Herzog

Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare… These are examples of social networking sites, but you knew that. You can have your diary sitting right next to your social media application right there on screen, so you can easily contact friends and family and arrange to meet up. on his blog.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. Now Facebook is following their footsteps and introduces their own location service called ’Places’. It will be highly interesting to see how location will be used from now when knowing how comprehensive Facebook is.

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The Next Big Thing After Twitter! Is FourSquare The Answer?

Atom Thought

I was beginning to hear a lot about Foursquare in the past few months , actually more after I bought the iPhone3G, and in the past few days decided to explore and experience Foursquare myself. However Foursquare takes it to the next level intelligently by using the entire concept as if it were a video game.