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4 Ways To Tap Into Local Markets

Harp Interactive

Coordinates on the page boost your visibility and enhance usefulness as people are able to copy them directly into their GPS devices and get them on mobile phones via Apps. Geotagging: Allows businesses to embed geographical location information within websites, images, videos and other digital media. Your turn to act.

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Stop Your Smartphone From Telling Burglars Where You Live

Ari Herzog

Because today’s smartphones are preinstalled with GPS technology (that power your maps and Foursquare apps so you always know where you are), that technology is also added in the form of metadata that is attached to every photo or video your device records. Sign up to receive blog posts by email.

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Creating a Virtual Community to Build a Better Blog

ProBlogger

There are many online communities available for your readers to reach out to, on all manner of topics – so how can you fill a need that isn’t already being taken care of out there? It was January, and New Year’s resolutions were aplenty, so having a health and fitness blog I needed a way to help my readers achieve their goals.

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An Introduction to Vertical Social Networks

Buffer Social

The increasing adoption of vertical networks and popular social networks’ efforts to replicate them (Twitter’s Communities and Super Followers features come to mind) show that audiences are increasingly looking for community online. Pay attention to their language, overall tone, and what kind of content performs best.

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Case Study and Lessons Learned: App Product Launch and Awareness

Akamai Marketing

Case Study #2: Community Driven Product Launch. At a City of Honolulu sponsored hackathon, a citizen developed a mobile app, DaBus, which adds functionality to the bus system with GPS tracking and to the minute updates on bus schedules and locations. Blog Coverage: . Background: . Results: 958,399 Social Impressions. 425 Tweets.

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Find Twitter followers by location 2011

Laurel Papworth

Someone asked in comments on my blog – this one – “how to find followers or users on Twitter by location?&# Or based on the phone GPS co-ordinates that are sent with the tweet to Twitter. Doesn’t work if they are on a computer or they block GPS location on their phone. Self proclaimed. Copy that link.

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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago.