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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare, for example, runs only on iPhone and Android, though other versions are under development. I use Brightkite and Foursquare on my iPhone, so I am describing the applications from this standpoint.

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How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers Can Use Foursquare Depending on where you live you may be seeing more and more businesses advertising that they participate in Foursquare.

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Is Twitter Crossing the Line Between Useful and Creepy

Convince & Convert

Maybe it’s a sign of the social media times, where we know people by their avatar more so than their street address of phone number. Interestingly, this would put Twitter squarely on the turf of Foursquare, as pointed out by Brent Carnduff on Business 2 Community. Or maybe I’m just a bad friend.

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R.I.P. Friendster

Ari Herzog

A vertical listing of my avatar, biographical data, friends’ comments, and links to their profiles encompassed Friendster’s simplicity. Related articles you may enjoy: Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account. Here’s a screenshot of the first half of my profile : I joined Friendster in July 2003.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. Daniel proposed that we set up Foursquare style badges to encourage staff to contribute and use the internet. Foursquare give you points for first login of the day, for becoming a Mayor etc. CMS : get karma points AFTER you upload your avatar photo.

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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

It’s nicely designed, and it displays your Twitter avatar next to the tweets. or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] Works only for users who have their location set up in Twitter preferences. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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