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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Geolocation applications allow you to share your location with other people and associate that location to restaurants, events, and other real-world venues. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago. I saw you checked in on Foursquare as I just did.” I’m Ari.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

If I wanted to know these things, we’d be connected on Foursquare so I could follow along as you cruise through town going to meetings and running errands. For each stop in your day, you check-in with Foursquare , Gowalla , Brightkite , Loopt , Whrrl and others. Still, it is your choice.

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Interview with Myself: 7 Links to Inspire

Ari Herzog

Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account. Checking-into a location on a mobile device and sharing that location with the world can promote networking and raise awareness of the business or event at the location. But there are also concerns with privacy and this is why I deleted my account. 2) My Most Popular Article.

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The Social Media Venn Diagram

Jeff Esposito

Everything from Tweeting and blogging to networking events is all about you and finding the next big break for you. One downside to oversharing is that communities like Twitter seem to self police themselves. Sure much of the information is public, but when does it become an invasion of privacy? It is definitely scary.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. You may not remember Foursquare (or weren’t yet born during its heyday), but chances are, you’ve used the company’s tech.

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Facebook, Sharing, Social And Me

Mindjumpers

This is great advertising for consumer communities on Facebook. What makes Facebook doing this so special is viewing it from a marketing perspective and the 500 million active user community that lives on Facebook. I was obviously wrong, many people do), but I still feel the same way about Foursquare as I did back then.