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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. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application.

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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.

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Feature Friday: Is Social Networking Making Us Less Social?

Ari Herzog

The following is a feature article by Christopher Roberts. Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare… These are examples of social networking sites, but you knew that. Related posts: Feature Friday: How to Successfully Network Online. However, have you ever thought of the impact they have on you? on his blog.

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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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Social Media News Ticker: Edit Your Facebook ‘Look Back,’ LinkedIn Kills ‘Intro,’ Twitter Debuts Data Grant Program

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare: Facebook’s Look Back movie now has edit options. Foursquare.

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Facebook Launches Questions

Mindjumpers

Latest with Places to match location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla. But the new feature will hardly threaten Quora’s user base. Questions will be a useful feature for business that run a page as part of creating involvement for users in the community. How it works.

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