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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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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Big data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that they difficult to process with commonly used software tools. 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.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Augmented Reality Applications Will Start to Go Mainstream. Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept. A few AR applications have been rolled out by progressive marketers and other organizations this year, but 2010 will be the year AR explodes. PowerPoint is ubiquitous.

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Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh'My

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh’My I’ve become obsessed with location based applications for my iPhone. Yelp was my first introduction to using an application to share my whereabouts with my friends. More up to par with foursquare and Gowalla.

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Bailout Application

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Bailout Application I could use some of that federal bail out money just about now. or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] How do you apply? Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Bailout Application - Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Bailout Application I could use some of that federal bail out money just about now. or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] How do you apply? Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Google Wave for the Virtual Office

Freelance Social Media

I catch myself thinking that for Wave to be fully utilized all members of the party need to be in the wave (note capital W while referring to the application and a lowercase w when referring to the individual wave) at the same time, but actually it works great when others are absent.

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