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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application. Foursquare. Primary among these is that Foursquare is a game.

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Social Networking Stats: Facebook To Acquire WhatsApp, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Foursquare: 40 million users. WhatsApp allows users to share messages (text, picture and video) across mobile devices with different operating systems, and is especially popular in Europe and other areas outside the U.S. Tumblr: 172 million blogs. via Tumblr. Instagram: 150 million users. via Instagram. via Tagged. via Reddit.

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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Sadly, thanks to the panel picker system – which I think is a broken process that leads to catchy titles and popular people winning the day over interesting sessions – the quality is hit-or-miss at SXSW. Foursquare arguably did so a couple of years later. Content varies in quality. No breakout companies this year.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

SMS other social networks are built on SMS revenues such as SMSFun. Twitter has probably done their dash with doing SMS deals by now. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. The unpaying masses get ads, the paying few get tiered accounts. Business ones even. Verified ones definitely.

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7 Strategies I’m Pitching for Businesses to use Facebook Places

Stay N' Alive

You could almost turn this into a loyalty rewards system of some sort. SMS – Yes, Facebook Has This, Too. FourSquare. This post is about Facebook Places, but I did want to briefly mention FourSquare. That is the process of creating an account on FourSquare for your brand and encouraging your customers to follow it.

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Remember the Milk and Everything else

Koka Sexton

Since technology hasn’t found a way to add a couple extra hours into the day (which would be ideal) we have to set up a system that reminds of of the little things that seem to get lost in the shuffle. The real problem is how to manage all of these to-dos and get them done when they need to be. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Remember the Milk and Everything else - Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Since technology hasn’t found a way to add a couple extra hours into the day (which would be ideal) we have to set up a system that reminds of of the little things that seem to get lost in the shuffle. The real problem is how to manage all of these to-dos and get them done when they need to be. Use get_bookmarks() instead.