Jeff Esposito

MARCH 1, 2013

Play by your own rules – an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the check-in wars between Gowalla and foursquare, from the loser’s point of view. The Survey is Dead – a really interesting read here from Tom Webster on surveys and how data at times is sold and portrayed out of context. Pour a 40 out for Gowalla.

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Jeff Esposito

APRIL 21, 2011

Fast forward to today, as many of you know an Amazon cloud went down and mucked up a lot of heavy hitters in the social space including foursquare, Hootsuite and Livefyre. Now I use many of these services, but did not receive or expect to receive notification of the issue or how it impacted my by any of these companies.

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 14, 2011

The Klout Score uses data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare in order to. Since Klout first launched in measurement tool in 2009, they have analyzed influence based on a user’s ability to “drive action.” According to Klout.com, “Every time you create content or engage you influence others.

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Jeff Esposito

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I pulled the data surrounding Deval Patrick, Charlie Baker, Tim Cahill and Jill Stein using Lithium Social Media Monitoring (formerly Scout Labs) over the past month. And if you tell the world via foursquare, you’ll even get a shiny new badge.

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