Socialized

AUGUST 26, 2010

If you're a regular reader of this blog and you're very observant, you may have noticed the Social Media Informer badge on my right sidebar. I was asked to participate in this week's launch of this new site which looks to have a great strategy for aggregating and distributing social.

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Socialized

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

create new badges.&#. Each “Badge&# collected along the way creates a sense of accomplishment. In the future, you may unlock additional Superuser powers that let you merge venues and (ah, someday!) I have to admit that I was excited about this. The creators of Foursquare are tapping into basic human behavior.

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Socialized

MARCH 26, 2010

I guess Facebook could clone Foursquare’s badges and point system, but then it would be Foursquare screen scraped into Facebook. And there’s something nice about simple, uncluttered, standalone apps, particularly in a mobile environment. Part of Foursquare’s appeal is that it does one thing really well.

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Socialized

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

As they collect points, they also get badges. Users get points for checking in to locations, adding locations, and being the user who checks in the most often at a particular location ( Update: who is recognized as the “mayor&# of that location. To become mayor, a user must also post a profile picture. )

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