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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks. You couldn’t join Facebook unless you had a college email address on a particular school’s domain, much to their prospective advertisers’ chagrin.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Brightkite. Brightkite 2.0

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5 Best GPS Navigation Apps for iPhone in 2023

Tweaklibrary

The evolution of GPS navigation apps for the iPhone is remarkable. Also, to save on mobile data & battery life, you can download maps with various offline GPS on iPhone. Also Read: Offline Navigation Apps For Android Best GPS Navigation Apps for iPhone 1. This app comes pre-installed on your device. It can be used offline.

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Facebook Places Explained

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Spacebook and Danceroulette Music Video Flowtown – an Interesting Social Marketing Tool » Facebook Places Explained Posted by Anne Herngaard Aug 30th, 2010 Tweet Are you wondering what all the talk with Facebook Places is about?

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Stop Your Smartphone From Telling Burglars Where You Live

Ari Herzog

Did you know that every photo and video you take — and share on Facebook, Instagram, and other apps — from your smartphone is also sharing the exact latitude and longitude of the location where the photo was taken, enabling hackers, burglars, and pedophiles from knowing where you live?

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

Believe me, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to check your Facebook feed, especially when you have your phone out to search Google Maps for the closest coffee shop. We use them for online boarding passes, restaurant locators, maps/directions to popular tourist destinations, and leveraging the phone for GPS.