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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. The Yelp iPhone app alone had around 1.25 I couldn’t find current stats on Yelp’s iPhone app user base, hence the discombobulated comparison.

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How To Create a Conference Badge Page

Bare Feet Studios

You can use FTP to create a custom directory for your badges or you can also use the image up-loader that comes with your blog site. This is what you would place in your Event’s Badges page (assuming you replace the appropriate URLs and file names as outlined above: Step 5. See the PodCamp Hawaii Badges page for examples.

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Foursquare Review: Why You Should Check In

Bill Hartzer

Foursquare is a social networking website that works off the location of its users. You can even earn badges giving you bragging rights for that venue. There are even apps for the iPhone, and other smart phone devices to access the Foursquare website while on the go. Well, that’s the basic premise behind Foursquare.

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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. 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. Brightkite.

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Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh'My

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh’My I’ve become obsessed with location based applications for my iPhone. As I travel around, I check into airports, hotels and where ever else I go and I earn little badges and become the virtual “Mayor&# of locations.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh’My I’ve become obsessed with location based applications for my iPhone. As I travel around, I check into airports, hotels and where ever else I go and I earn little badges and become the virtual “Mayor&# of locations.

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Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School

Convince & Convert

But in each case, as I’d weave through my angst filled teenage years jumping from group to group, each had its own coda, jargon, ethics, special interests, badges of honor (or dishonor) and tests of loyalty. Add texting, tweets, retweets, online reviews, Flickr, HootSuite, Droids, iPhones, transparent consumer rating sites….and