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Social Media News Ticker: Foursquare Launches Swarm, YouTube Reportedy Buying Twitch

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, YouTube and Foursquare: Foursquare app splits in two, launches Swarm. Foursquare. Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

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. Tags: Social Media Brightkite check-in check.in

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On Social Media Bullies

Waxing UnLyrical

Have you come across a social media bully lately? And I’ve thought a lot about this before deciding that, in essence, people who behave like this are social media bullies. Community conversations led to one of my favorite posts yet (and, I think, yours) on social media barfshiners. Here’s what.

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The Next Big Thing After Twitter! Is FourSquare The Answer?

Atom Thought

I was beginning to hear a lot about Foursquare in the past few months , actually more after I bought the iPhone3G, and in the past few days decided to explore and experience Foursquare myself. However Foursquare takes it to the next level intelligently by using the entire concept as if it were a video game.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/5/2013

Social Media Marketing

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Repositioning Through Social Media: The Conan O’Brien-Case

Mindjumpers

However, his innovate use of social media to sustain the hype around his person during a longer off-screen period deserves another post. So in order to satisfy his tribe of followers and keep the hype going during his off-screen ban, Conan turned to the online-universe and re-positioned himself as a social media-phenomenon.