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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. How Does It Know Where I Am?

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The Public Doesn't Need to Know What Gov 2.0 is, But They Do Need.

Social Media Strategery

There have been a multitude of new policies , conferences , guidelines , platforms , and even awards for things related to something called Government 2.0 For example, the city of San Francisco has a “Mom&# map – with the locations of all the playgrounds around the city and it is GPS encoded. and Open Government.

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