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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Experts ” have recently placed Foursquare valuations in the $50M to $70M range. I think this is low, and I also think it is too soon for Foursquare to sell. I don’t think so. More on 4sq in a moment.).

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Location-based applications like Foursquare and Brightkite will not be the darlings of social media as some predict, but will instead turn into features and dissolve into general social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Microsoft’s Bing was the surprise hit of 2009, and has started to erode Google’s share of search.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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