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Stand By for a Foursquare Superuser

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Perhaps it doesn’t deserve the status of a combat fighter pilot, but Foursquare has upgraded me to “Superuser&# status, which means: “you gain the ability to edit our venue database (fixing incorrect addresses, suggesting duplicate venues, marking places as “closed&# , matching venues with their Twitter accounts).

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Witness Google, with Google Buzz, which has generated some interest but doesn’t really seem poised to destroy Twitter. I guess Facebook could clone Foursquare’s badges and point system, but then it would be Foursquare screen scraped into Facebook. There comes a time in the life of every hot software product’s life (whether a Web 2.0

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. was recently introduced , which is quite attractively laid out, and includes Twitter-inspired graphics. As they collect points, they also get badges. Brightkite 2.0