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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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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. The new Facebook service is being rolled out in the US on iPhones, but is unfortunately not yet available on other countries. Or go here if you want to learn more about Foursquare.

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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. The new Facebook service is being rolled out in the US on iPhones, but is unfortunately not yet available on other countries. Or go here if you want to learn more about Foursquare.

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Location Based Social Media for Brands

Mindjumpers

For instance you can read about Nike’s iPhone application “True City” or loyalty and reward programmes initiated by Topshop and Tasti D-Lite. I found this presentation called ’Location-based social media for brands’ on Slideshare , which is compiled by Douglas Lin – a guy working with digital strategies in Singapore.

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Social Media Trends in 2010

Freelance Social Media

Social business becomes serious play “Relatively new networks such as Foursquare are touted for the focus on making networked activity local and mobile. However, it also has a game-like quality to it which brings out the competitor in the user.&# I’m a big fan of Foursquare. This is an issue of user behavior.

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Ma.gnolia Down - Price For Social Bookmarking

Koka Sexton

Not to mention that I don’t want bookmarks to my bank account stored online – I don’t care what type of privacy policy a site has. or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] Jim’s last blog post.

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Epic News Alerts On Twitter

Koka Sexton

or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] Entertainment Award Winners BBC Entertainment Celebrity Gossip Cinema Minima News for Movie Makers Worldwide Defamer Movie News NYTimes Movies Pleasant Morning Buzz PopTorrent The United States Govt.

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