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Facebook Places Explained

Mindjumpers

Part of the idea behind Facebook Places is the same as with other geolocation services like Gowalla and Foursquare: to create spontaneous meetings. I am not sure whether or not Facebook Places will eventually overrule other services like Foursquare and Gowalla or how powerful geolocation will be.

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

We use them for online boarding passes, restaurant locators, maps/directions to popular tourist destinations, and leveraging the phone for GPS. By using the book, you’ll get back to the basics of traveling, relying less on GPS and mobile technology. So, set the expectation that if they want you, to call you.

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Repositioning Through Social Media: The Conan O’Brien-Case

Mindjumpers

A huge orange blimp – hot air balloon – with a build in GPS has been circling around major cities on the east coast during the month of October enabling Foursquare-users to earn a Conan-BlimpSpotter badge as well as seeing images on Flickr. • The same goes for YouTube, where he first announced the name of his new show (‘Conan’). . •

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This Is Being Recorded. By You

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Most people just stare at the map of their GPS system and wait for the voice commands to bark out their next turn. I never tagged myself as an analytics jockey, but switching over to the trip data screen of my GPS turned the long drive into both a game and fascinating collection of data. foursquare. foursquare.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

I’ve always found Foursquare a bit creepy; turns out there’s actually an app named Creepy that aggregates “GPS coordinates for any user (of geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr), pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map…Essentially, it’s a stalker’s dream app.&#

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

besides my iPhone) TomTom One is a new portable GPS navigation unit launched for the North American market, that fits in your shirt pocket, making it easily transportable from car-to-car and to take on business and vacation trips. There are many GPS devices available from Garmin to Magellan. What was it? Leave a comment!

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

Convince & Convert

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.