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Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Popular Blog Posts About Social Media OliveWoo–The First Location-based Date Service » Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins Posted by Anne Herngaard Jul 21st, 2010 Tweet Yesterday, the location-based network Foursquare hit the 100 million checkin threshold.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare, for example, runs only on iPhone and Android, though other versions are under development. If you’re at a conference, friends and colleagues can coordinate schedules and get together. Foursquare.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

You can see the forest and the trees in big data, according to Nora Young , the Canadian author and the host of CBC Radio One’s Spark, in her opening keynote at last week’s Fireworks Factory conference held on Galiano Island, British Columbia. English: CBC Radio personality Nora Young at the Northern Voice 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C.,

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Seven Social Media Insights on CES

Dave Fleet

CES is not a social media conference (duh). It attracts a very different audience compared to conferences like SXSW or BlogWorld. Now that I’ve had a few days to decompress, I thought I’d do something slightly different and provide a few insights from a social perspective. CES is, first and foremost, an electronics show.

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Study Shows Marketers Plan to Spend More on Social Media Programs

Harp Interactive

“While the technology and tools are there, social media is still uncharted territory for many marketers,&# says Chris Shipley, executive producer of Pivot Conference. foursquare) – 23% currently using; 35% plan to use. SOURCE Pivot Conference. 87% plan to increase that investment in the next 12 months. Methodology.

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Social Networking Stats: Instagram Tops 100 Million Users, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Foursquare: over 20 million users. via Foursquare. Instagram now has over 100 million users, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this past Tuesday. “It Google Plus: 170 million “people who have upgraded” via Google. Tumblr: 73 million blogs. via Tumblr. via TechCrunch.

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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Given that my voice has pretty much deserted me after numerous days trying to have conversations in overly noisy places, I thought I’d get some of my thoughts on the conference down on “paper&# for you. Foursquare arguably did so a couple of years later. Networking Mecca. Content varies in quality.

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