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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. I don’t think so. I don’t think so. More on 4sq in a moment.).

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

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. marketing, there will be problems in areas of disclosure, privacy and fair competitive practice.

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Google+ and World Domination

Janet Fouts

The network itself is reminiscent of a mix of the best features of FriendFeed , Facebook and a few other networks, and as Kit Eaton pointed out in her Google+ post on Fast Company the network seems positioned to take over from Foursquare , Instagram , Facebook and maybe even Twitter and Quora. My recommendation for a business?

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Key Takeaways from #SMAZ

Kikolani

We know where you are: the creepy side of geolocation – is it stalking, savvy marketing, and when you should be concerned about privacy. 100 million checkins have been made on FourSquare at 5.6 Google and Microsoft are examples of companies that do bad product launches. Are numbers important in social media ?

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, Black Friday & Cyber Monday Blogging Sales

Kikolani

How my article on quitting Foursquare caused a blog traffic spike – a look at analytics and referrals when you get a post that goes viral. How to grow, manage, and optimize your Internet empire – a great guide to on day-to-day-operations, finances, security, privacy, and productivity secrets.

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