Foursquare has officially blasted onto the retail scene representing the growing segment of location based social and marketing services. This article is meant to walk you through the steps and tips to using foursquare and being a “little creepy.” People use foursquare to “check-in”, which is a way of telling us your whereabouts. You’ll find that as your friends use foursquare to check-in, you’ll start learning more about the places they frequent. You’ll find that as your friends use foursquare to check-in, you’ll start learning more about the places they frequent.” MORE >>

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 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. Ideas have their time, and I think Foursquare might just put Achievements (a la World of Warcraft) and karma points (everyone really, starting with Slashdot) onto the Enterprise 2.0 Badges for no missed sick days would be a good start. agenda. MORE >>

Mozilla recently unveiled a project that they have been working on for over a year and a half called Open Badges. Right now we see the concept of badges being deployed on social media sites such as Foursquare or on enterprise social software applications such as Yammer but Mozilla is looking to take this one step further. Open Badges from Mozilla seeks to take these type of skills and assign badges around them to signify a legitimate form of expertise. Tech news mozilla open badges openbadges skill and educational currency MORE >>

Earlier this week I posted 9 location-based infographics showing how and why the mobile world is checking in , not including a series of Foursquare infographics I’ve seen around the web. Foursquare data and how people are using the platform ranges from how many checkins are created by various communities to what if President Obama used Foursquare. It seems people who love createing infographics love Foursquare too therefore I deiced to have a separate post for Foursquare infographics. Foursquare Check-In Analysis: July 11th through July 17th. MORE >>

Some would say that  Foursquare has blasted into the scene of location based social networking applications with a vengeance. From the Foursquare site: People use foursquare to “check-in”, which is a way of telling us your whereabouts. You’ll find that as your friends use foursquare to check-in, you’ll start learning more about the places they frequent. Just so we are clear… I have realized the full potential of Foursquare in my personal business and I have seen it being used across a multitude of different users… from power users to newbies. per point). MORE >>