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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Aren’t you glad they still offer a “Poke” feature?)

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

” The website sends search bots to crawl Facebook and Foursquare to find key words such as “hungover” and “cannabis” and divides the findings into four categories: “Who wants to get fired?”, There’s a feature which which allows anyone highlighted on the site to request the removal of their post.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare. Brightkite. With Brightkite 2.0,

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Path, available for iOS and Android devices, also integrates with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr to allow cross-posting to the social networks. The basic layout looks similar to Facebook and Twitter and it features a stream of posts that is generated by users and their Path friends. It’s very easy to use.

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Social Media News Ticker: Crowdfunding Coming To YouTube Soon

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: Facebook. Social Media News Ticker: Foursquare Launches Swarm, YouTube Reportedy Buying Twitch. Social Media News Ticker Facebook privacy settings Twitter Twitter ads video ads Youtube'

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. They want to document the world around them.

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Facebook Introduces Location Service: Places

Mindjumpers

Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. Facebook has of course also taken privacy into consideration. If you already know Foursquare, you pretty much know the drill already.