Sherrilynne Starkie

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The all new Foursquare

Sherrilynne Starkie

Foursquare has been around for a few years and has always been a bit of location-based fun. The social network boasts a community of 20 million users, but never really seemed to go mainstream. But that’s set to change with yesterday’s relaunch of the ‘All new Foursquare ‘ Image via CrunchBase.

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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?”, No information is posted that hasn’t been published by the social media users themselves.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare. Successful social media marketing to moms. Another consideration is the reliability of data. Facebook’s little secret.

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Path, available for iOS and Android devices, also integrates with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr to allow cross-posting to the social networks. The upper limit has been raised to 150, but most user have, on average, five to 10 connections. It’s very easy to use.

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Will the CoTweet gamble pay off?

Sherrilynne Starkie

CoTweet , the easy-to-use and fantastically handy social media tool that lets many individuals to collaborate on publishing content on Twitter, is going the way of the Dodo in a few weeks. Will people be prepared to pay enterprise-type fees for enterprise social media software? Three biggest myths of social media.

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