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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Part of Foursquare’s appeal is that it does one thing really well.

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Citing privacy concerns and not wanting strangers to know where I was every moment I checked in to a location, I deleted my Foursquare account 14 months ago. Forrester Research recently surveyed 37,000 mobile users and in its report issued this month, a mere 2% of those users had Foursquare accounts.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare. How Does It Know Where I Am? Brightkite.

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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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But will Santa check in with Facebook, Foursquare or Gowalla?

The Way of the Web

If you have concerns about location services and privacy, then spare a thought for poor old Santa. He doesn’t appear to be using mobile location services like Foursquare and Gowalla yet, which is a bit of a shame, as he’d probably rack up plenty of badges over the Christmas period…

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

EmailTwitter – allows you to post Twitter updates and retrieve your Twitter timeline via your cellular phone or other e-mail enabled mobile device, without incurring SMS fees. Twit This is a badge similar to the popular “Digg This” badges, which help the visitors of a web site to quickly include its URL into a Twitter post.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Local/Mobile Search. Growing Your Business: 5 Tips from the Founder of Foursquare (Mashable): Dennis Crowley knows his stuff, and he’s given some good and creative tips to build visibility to his business. Hey, Foursquare was pretty small once! Web Development and Website Strategy. SEO: Strategy. SEO: Information.

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