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Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Popular Blog Posts About Social Media OliveWoo–The First Location-based Date Service » Foursquare Reaches 100 Million Checkins Posted by Anne Herngaard Jul 21st, 2010 Tweet Yesterday, the location-based network Foursquare hit the 100 million checkin threshold.

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The 2012 Social Networking Privacy Policy

Webbiquity SMM

If you were to do a Google search for some of the top social networking sites , you’ll almost certainly stumble across a news story concerning privacy issues with user data. In a sub-page Foursquare calls “Privacy 101,” the plan and purpose of users’ privacy is laid out simply. Guest post by Athena Newton.

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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?”, ” The site attracted more than 100,000 visitors in the first 27 hours of its launch.

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Social Networking Terms of Use in 2013

Firebelly

Popular social sites like Facebook have been the subject of privacy concerns for years, but users are starting to hold companies accountable for their actions – making others rethink the way they take on Internet privacy. Foursquare 101. The changes could be seen as a breach in user privacy, but Foursquare prepared for this.

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Crowd-Sourced Information Online: Helpful or Harmful?

The Social Media Incubator

Others scrutinize sites that allow users to share/upload files, music and videos freely. But who can really define whether these sites are doing right or wrong? Educational institutions and their professors/instructors have a wide range of policies for students using these crowd-sourced encyclopedias as a reliable source in coursework.

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Social Media Marketing Requires Involvement | Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers

One scene is released each day of the festival on a micro site, and you can play them in any order you like. Results The scenes are so far very thrilling in my opinion, and the site has definitely drawn my attention. Results The scenes are so far very thrilling in my opinion, and the site has definitely drawn my attention.

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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.

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