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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare. Brightkite. Brightkite 2.0

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Is Twitter Crossing the Line Between Useful and Creepy

Convince & Convert

In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about Twitter’s new Nearby feature that will give users the option of seeing tweets from other users in the vicinity. Is This a Feature or a Freak-Out? Image via Wall Street Journal blog. Or maybe I’m just a bad friend.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Maybe nice avatars or backgrounds created by budding entrepreneurs and facilitated by Twitter? SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Twitter has probably done their dash with doing SMS deals by now. The eBay model but for digital items.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Twitter Tracking A great way to find people on Twitter that have the same interests as you is to use the Twitter Tracking feature. It’s nicely designed, and it displays your Twitter avatar next to the tweets. Step out of your comfort zone and start following other people. Use wp_list_categories() instead. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Facebook Credit: Zuckerberg next Treasurer of the Internet App2User

Laurel Papworth

Foursquare? They can be cds/dvds, software for your office, downloadable whitepapers and books on an iPad, ringtones, music/videos on the iTunes store, films on DVD, images like backgrounds and avatars. Future: Facebook buys Foursquare, you get stuff. Social Networks and Online Communities – maybe Twitter?

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