Jeff Esposito

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Why I’m kinda over Yelp: Foursquare and Twitter are my recommendation engines of choice

Jeff Esposito

Yelp, like that ex of yours, is a great resource for information on local businesses, showing restaurants’ hours and menu offerings, publishing user reviews of everything from beauty salons to churches, and listing great local events around Boston. Sorry, Yelp: I’m kinda over you. Realtime feedback=realtime AWESOME. I’ve moved up, moved on.

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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. We should never take stalking lightly, even if we make it easier for folks to do it with geo-location sites like foursquare, SCVNGR and Facebook places. It is definitely scary.

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Five tips for SXSW Virgins

Jeff Esposito

In a little over a week thousands of techies, hipsters and marketing folks will arrive in Austin, Texas for the interactive marketing portion of the 26th Annual South by Southwest Conference for five days of sessions, keynotes, events, networking opportunities and parties.

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Can non-profits lead the way for mass-adoption or geolocation.

Jeff Esposito

Written on August 18, 2010 by Espo in Geotargeting As geolocation applications, like foursquare , Gowalla and SCVNGR , continue to gain integration with the general public and retailers, we are going to see a lot of cool things from companies benefiting retailers; however that is still a ways away.

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How many social networks can you handle?

Jeff Esposito

The only way that I keep up with current events and tech news is by looking at one of my lists. Foursquare – I love this network. Twitter – this is my go to site for news, entertainment and catching up with friends and trading random insults. Over the past few weeks, work has been a whirlwind.