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OliveWoo – The First Location-based Date Service

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About SF New Tech SF New Tech is the largest and longest running monthly technology event in San Francisco. Since forming in March 2006 more than 5,000 people have signed up to attend monthly standing room only events. Similar Posts: Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins Facebook Introduces Geolocation Foursquare: How Does It Work?

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare. Jana uses airtime rewards as currency and conducts consumer research, product promotions and consumer loyalty campaigns.

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Winners of Mashable Awards

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Tweet The 6th of January, Mashable held the event of Mashable Awards Gala. Most Creative Social Media Campaign: Stand Up For WWE. Best Location-Based Service: Foursquare. Most Creative Social Good Campaign: Twitchange. It is the 4 th annual Award show, and it was held at Cirque du Soleil Zumanity stage, Las Vegas.

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Facebook Places Explained

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&# Part of the idea behind Facebook Places is the same as with other geolocation services like Gowalla and Foursquare: to create spontaneous meetings. Facebook wants to tear down the walls between getting in touch with each other when you hang out in the park, go to a café or go to an event.

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Carlsberg Launches Crowdit: A Non-Branded Mobile App

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The app is called Crowdit and is a window to the city nightlife that lets people explore and discover places and events while connecting with friends to see where they are and what they are doing. In short, think of Crowdit as a Foursquare for nightlife. Crowdit – the remote control to your nightlife. Non-branded promotion.

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Social Networking Online and Non-Profit Organizations | Freelance.

Freelance Social Media

The survey revealed that social networks provide little real revenue for non-profits via fundraising, and are mainly utilized for traditional marketing efforts (promoting their website, email lists, and events.) About the author Meghan Brozanic wrote 2 articles on this blog.

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Traditional Media Meets Twitter

Freelance Social Media

As a way to keep track of deals happening at the event the hashtag #swsale was created. Local Twitterers and businesses made #swsale the number 46 trending hashtag on all of Twitter. The hashtag was supported by the Lawrence Journal- World and made prominent on their homepage Tweetgrid’s Twitter Search Widget.

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